Patent ID: 6744767
Filing Date: 2004-06-01
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
A method comprisingprocessing a customer's request for a subscription to transmit packets through a network at a requested amount of bandwidth under a first service class from a starting point to a terminating point, the processing comprising identifying a primary traversing, pathway that packets will travel from the starting point to the terminating point, each link alone the primary traversing pathway having a) a total amount of bandwidth allocated to the first service class and b) a total amount of bandwidth that was previously reserved under the first service class for pathways through the network that include that link, accepting the subscription in response to a determination that, for each said link along the primary traversing pathway, the difference between a) and b) is at least as great as the requested bandwidth; and if the subscription is accepted, resenting the requested amount of bandwidth for the subscription on each of the links along the primary traversing pathway.