Patent ID: 7948883

Claim:
A method, comprising: transmitting service-flow classifications that define a plurality of types of service-flows utilized by a cable modem on a cable network, from the cable modem to a router that accesses the cable network through the cable modem; mapping each of the plurality of types of service flows utilized by the cable modem to a corresponding class of traffic utilized by a Quality of Service (QoS) process of the router; determining network backpressure per service-flow at the cable modem based on feedback from the cable network, or from one or more queues or buffers; transmitting network backpressure for a particular service-flow from the cable modem to the router in response to surpassing a configurable threshold of network backpressure for the particular service-flow; and controlling traffic for the particular service-flow at the router by controlling the corresponding class of traffic utilized by the QoS process based on the network backpressure for the particular service-flow.