Patent ID: 8761201

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: circuitry to facilitate, at least in part, assignment, at least in part, of at least one bandwidth reservation for at least one of at least one packet stream and at least one stream reservation class, the at least one bandwidth reservation, as requested by at least one requester of the at least one bandwidth reservation, being greater than an expected communication bandwidth of the at least one packet stream, the assignment of the at least one bandwidth reservation to be made prior to commencement of communication of the at least one packet stream, the at least one bandwidth reservation to be assigned to the at least one of the at least one packet stream and the at least one stream reservation class; wherein: the at least one bandwidth reservation includes a plurality of bandwidth reservations; the plurality of bandwidth reservations includes a subset of the bandwidth reservations that are to be reserved on behalf of one or more processes; and the subset of the bandwidth reservations is to be unused by the one or more processes for packet communication.