Patent ID: 9729448
Date: 2017-08-08
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. A method for determining a congestion value in a networking component in a data network, the method comprising: setting, at an application executing in a data processing system, a first packet to use a first priority level; setting, at the application, a second packet to use a second priority level, wherein the second priority level is lower than the first priority level; transmitting the second packet after the first packet to the networking component, wherein the transmitting causes the networking component to transmit the first packet and the second packet from the networking component after the first packet and the second packet are received at the networking component; determining an arrival delay, wherein the arrival delay comprises a length of an elapsed period between receiving a transmission of the first packet from the networking component and receiving a transmission of the second packet from the networking component; and applying a function to the arrival delay to compute the congestion value of the networking component.