Patent ID: 8861358

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving from a cable modem, at a router that accesses a cable network through the cable modem, a plurality of service-flow classifications utilized by the cable modem to describe service flows on the cable network; based on the received service-flow classifications from the cable modem, determining traffic at the router destined for the cable network that corresponds to each service-flow on the cable network; receiving, from the cable modem at the router, an indication of network backpressure for a particular service-flow on the cable network, the indication of network backpressure received when a threshold of network backpressure has been surpassed for the particular service-flow on the cable network; and controlling particular traffic at the router that corresponds to the particular service-flow on the cable network, based on the indication of network backpressure for the particular service-flow on the cable network.