Patent ID: 8139594
Filing Date: 2012-03-20
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method comprising acts of: providing a scheduler including a plurality of calendars used to determine when a frame is to be moved from a flow queue; providing at least one search engine to search the calendars; defining a tick period within which searching a prescribed number of calendars is to be completed; determining the prescribed number of calendars to be searched within the tick period; searching with the search engine the calendars so determined; writing in a memory at least one identification (id) number for at least one of the calendars so determined, but could not be searched within the tick period; searching with the search engine the at least one of the calendars whose identification number is found in said memory; and correlating results from the prescribed calendars searched within the tick period and results from the at least one calendar searched in a subsequent tick period to determine the flow queue from which the packet is moved.