Patent ID: 7934016

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: a packet/frame receiver transmitter that includes at least one network interface, the packet/frame receiver transmitter configured to receive a reservation request message that includes a flow spec object that specifies one or more flow parameters, the flow parameters to describe a given traffic flow that desires to pass through the apparatus; a flow analyzer that includes one or more programmable processing elements, the flow analyzer configured to compare the one or more flow parameters specified in the flow spec object to one or more constants stored in a memory of the apparatus and to determine a type of traffic of the given traffic flow, the flow analyzer to determine the type of traffic independent of any differentiated services codepoint (DSCP) values in packets of the given traffic flow; and the flow analyzer further configured to assign the given traffic flow to a particular per hop behavior (PHB) based on the determined type of traffic for the given traffic flow.