Patent ID: 9602416
Date: 2017-03-21
CPC Classifications: H04B,H04L

Claim:
1. A method comprising: a computing device creating a transport protocol port map that correlates one or more inner protocols with one or more outer transport protocol port numbers; the computing device creating a priority bit re-map table that correlates the one or more outer transport protocol port numbers with one or more levels of priority; the computing device receiving a packet having an associated protocol and an associated port number; the computing device determining, based on the associated protocol and the associated port number, that the packet requires a level of priority of the one or more levels of priority that guarantees loss-less delivery of the packet; and responsive to a determination that the level of priority associated with a priority bit in a header of the packet does not match a level of priority associated with a port number in the header of the packet, the computing device changing the priority bit in the header of the packet to a priority bit associated with a level of priority that matches the level of priority associated with the port number, wherein changing includes tagging the header of the packet with an IEEE 802.1p priority bit.