Patent ID: 8341262
Filing Date: 2012-12-25
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for determining the offload type for the processing of a protocol of a network connection, comprising: identifying the protocol types and offload types supported by the hardware, firmware, and software of the network connection; identifying the application associated with the network connection; identifying the priority assigned by the application to the traffic flowing over the network connection; identifying the port of the network connection; determining the preferred offload type of the network connection based at least in part on an application-specific table, wherein the application-specific table includes the protocol types and offload types supported by the hardware, the application associated with the network connection, the priority assigned by the application, and the port of the network connection; and wherein the step of determining the offload type of the network connection is accomplished by cross-referencing the port of the network connection against the traffic priority of the connection in the application-specific table.