Patent ID: 8971345
Filing Date: 2015-03-03
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of servicing packets according to a class-based scheduler, the method comprising: dequeuing a flow queue from a first class queue corresponding to a first class of service of a first packet of the flow queue, wherein the flow queue comprises multiple packets having multiple classes of service; dequeuing the first packet from the flow queue; servicing the first packet; classifying a second packet at a head of the flow queue to identify a second class of service; and enqueuing the flow queue in a second class queue corresponding to the second class of service, based solely on the second class of service; wherein: the second class of service of the second packet matches the first class of service of the first packet; the second class queue comprises the first class queue; and said enqueuinq the flow queue within a second class queue comprises re-queuing the flow queue within the first class queue.