Patent ID: 7864672
Filing Date: 2011-01-04
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: sending a message to a first router, the message instructs the first router to override previously stored data packets in a buffer with newly received data packets, the previously stored data packets associated with a time-based traffic measure, wherein the first router is not a source router for the previously stored data packets, the first router directly interconnected by a first plurality of data paths to a first sub-plurality of interconnected routers from a plurality of interconnected routers, the message transmitted from a second router responsive to a determination that the time-based traffic measure exceeds a predetermined threshold, the determination based upon a tabulation at the second router, the tabulation comprising a plurality of source counts of IP data packets, each source count of IP data packets of the plurality of source counts of IP data packets indicative of a count of packets received from a particular IP source during a predetermined time interval, the plurality of source counts of IP data packets associated with every source that provides IP data packets to the second router.