Patent ID: 9712602
Date: 2017-07-18
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L

Claim:
1. A communications method implemented by a routing device in a communications network that performs routing by name, said device being configured for storing data segments belonging to different streams in a queue prior to the device routing them to client entities that have requested them, this method comprising: the routing device receiving from a set of respective client entities a respective set of requests, called an “aggregated request”, for a data segment A, the routing device transmitting to a server or to another routing device only the first request received among said set of requests for said data segment A, the routing device determining a credit associated with a stream, said credit varying as a function of a number of pending requests, transmitted by client entities and relating to data segments belonging to the stream; and on receiving said data segment A in response to said aggregated request, and when memory space available in the queue does not enable said received data segment to be stored: said method further comprising: