Patent ID: 7593334
Filing Date: 2009-09-22
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of regulating traffic at a network hardware machine, comprising: receiving a data packet; calculating a time stamp difference value that indicates a current transmission capacity; making the time stamp difference value equal to a maximum time difference when the time stamp difference value is greater than the maximum time difference; assigning a current time stamp value a current time value; setting a last time stamp value to a difference between the current time stamp value and the maximum time difference when the time stamp difference value is greater than the maximum time difference; converting the current packet length into a time value by multiplying the packet length with an inverted token rate value, the token rate describing how fast transmission capacity is added to communications associated with the received packet; and determining whether to transmit the packet based on whether the time stamp difference value is greater than the time value converted from the current packet length.