Patent ID: 6985436
Filing Date: 2006-01-10
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for providing load information within a network having a plurality of ingress routers, a plurality of core routers, and a plurality of egress routers, the method comprising: receiving a plurality of packets into a selected ingress router, each packet belonging to a selected one of a plurality of service classes and the packets being transmitted to a particular destination; metering a load value for each service class, the load value indicating a number count of streams for each service class; and periodically transmitting one or more tickets to the destination to indicate the load value for each of the one or more service classes, wherein the one or more tickets are configured to allow dynamic resource allocation between service classes on a per stream basis, wherein the resources are allocated by: calculating a total controlled resource allocation per class; calculating a resource remainder; and allocating the resource remainder to the streams of each class based on the calculated total controlled resources allocation for each class.