Patent ID: 7636362

Claim:
A system comprising: an application server for executing an application that invokes a plurality of services; service identification logic to identify network communications from a selected service from the plurality of services by: identifying a communication socket established for the selected service; and identifying at least a source port value assigned to the communication socket; a priority logic configured in a communication channel between the application server and a network device where network communications to and from the application server are processed by at least the network device, the priority logic comprising: a notice handler configured to receive a notification event from the application server where the notification event includes identification data comprising the source port value assigned to the communication socket for the selected service, where the identification data designates values associated with network communications from the selected service that are to be prioritized; inspection logic configured to identify network communications that are associated with the selected service in the communication channel that match the identification data by at least matching the source port value to a port value in the network communications; and reconfiguration logic configured to dynamically reconfigure priority settings in the network communications that are identified.