Patent ID: 8279790

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: circuitry to be comprised in a first node, the node to be communicatively coupled to a network and including a host processor to execute at least one communication protocol-related process, the circuitry to determine, at least in part, whether to buffer, at least in part, at least one packet received from the network based at least in part upon whether a weighted moving average exceeds a first threshold and is less than a second threshold, the average being determined based at least in part upon one or more time intervals between one or more packet receptions from the network; wherein: a third threshold is less than the first threshold; a fourth threshold is greater than the second threshold; and the circuitry is to determine, at least in part, whether to buffer, at least in part, the at least one packet based at least in part upon whether the circuitry is currently in a packet buffering mode of operation, and whether the average is one of: between the third threshold and the first threshold, and between the fourth threshold and the second threshold.