Patent ID: 7853952
Filing Date: 2010-12-14
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: receiving, at a network device, a packet of a data flow between a first host and a second host; determining, relative to the network device, which of the first and second hosts is an inside host and which of the first and second hosts is an outside host; accessing a memory space comprising a plurality of partition objects, wherein the plurality of partition objects includes one or more dynamic partition objects, each one of the one or more dynamic partition objects having at least one attribute defining a first allocation of network bandwidth across all data flows associated with the one of the one or more dynamic partition objects and a side parameter indicating which of the inside and outside host is a user, and a second attribute defining user partition allocations of the network bandwidth within the first allocation; selecting a partition object from the plurality of partition objects based on one or more attributes of the data flow; and if the selected partition object is a dynamic partition object,