Patent ID: 8149855

Claim:
A method of transferring data packets to a shared resource in a telecommunications network, the method comprising: receiving at least one packet to be transferred to a queue from among N processing queues each associated with a determined duration, where N>1; assigning the received packet to one of the N processing queues by at least: identifying a communication stream to which the received packet belongs; updating a value representative of the received data volume for the identified communication stream; and determining the queue to which the received packet is assigned as a function of the result of at least one comparison between the updated value and a determined threshold; adding the received packet to the queue to which the received packet has been assigned; selecting a processing queue from among the N queues such that each non-empty queue is selected at least once in the course of a time period of duration corresponding to the duration associated with the queue considered; extracting at least one packet from the selected processing queue; and transferring the extracted packet to the shared resource by priority with respect to the packets of the other queues.