Patent ID: 7376134

Claim:
A method for injecting a data packet into a network over a privileged path, comprising: receiving a data packet; detecting a route selector associated with the data packet, wherein the route selector is a data structure that identifies a privileged path and that was affixed to the data packet by a source or sender of the data packet; acquiring the privileged path from the route selector included with the data packet, wherein the privileged path includes a plurality of selective nodes that are used to define the privilege path and traverse the data packet through a network to a destination, the privileged path is processed by the nodes as the data packet traverses the network, the nodes are identified in reserved routing tables and use a reserved communication port, and the nodes in combination with the reserved routing tables and the reserved communication port provide priority processing throughput for the data packet when it traverses the network to the destination; and injecting the data packet into the network over the privileged path.