Patent ID: 7715417
Filing Date: 2010-05-11
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: acquiring, at a first packet handling device, i) a source packet stream of L packets and ii) at least one quality-of-service requirement that governs transmission of the source packet stream; transmitting, from the first packet handling device to a second packet handling device, a first non-empty set of packets that are at least some of the L packets of the source packet stream, along a first transmission path; and transmitting, from the first packet handling device to the second packet handling device, a second non-empty set of packets that are at least some of the L packets of the source packet stream, along a second transmission path which provides a known quality-of-service guarantee that meets or exceeds the at least one quality-of-service requirement; wherein the first set of packets and the second set of packets are based on the at least one quality-of-service requirement and the known quality-of-service guarantee.