Patent ID: 8774001
Filing Date: 2014-07-08
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A relay device of relaying a communication packet, comprising: an input module configured to receive the communication packet as an input; a buffer configured to have a plurality of queues and temporarily accumulated the received communication packet; a sorter configured to sort the received communication packet to one of the plurality of queues, depending on a specific value obtained by a predetermined function that gives an aggregate output from an input which is transfer information regarding transfer of the communication packet; and a band controller configured to control a bandwidth for each of the plurality of queues and output communication packets accumulated in the plurality of queues for transmission of the communication packets, wherein the input module has a plurality of physical input ports, and the sorter is further configured to sort the communication packet according to both a first value obtained by a first function as the predetermined function using destination information that is included in header information of the received communication packet and is determined according to a destination of the communication packet, as the transfer information, and a second value obtained by a second function as the predetermined function using port information that identifies an physical input port that has received the communication packet among the plurality of physical input ports, as the transfer information.