Prioritizing classes of network traffic to provide a predetermined quality of service

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9130864-B2
Application number	US-201213535350-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 27, 2012
Priority date	Jun 27, 2011
Publication date	Sep 8, 2015
Grant date	Sep 8, 2015

Abstract

A network shaping engine can be used to optimize network traffic by employing means to prioritize data packets assigned to a network traffic class over other network traffic. The network shaping engine accomplishes network traffic optimization by determining whether received data packets comprise a traffic class mark or indicia that indicates the data packets are part of a minimum latency traffic class. After analyzing the packets, the network optimization engine sorts the data packets according to the identified traffic classes and transmits the packets. Data packets comprising a traffic class marking are transmitted according to a first transmission scheme while data packets that do not comprise a traffic class marking are transmitted according to a second transmission scheme that differs from the first transmission scheme.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method for optimizing transmission of network traffic, the method comprising:
receiving, by a network optimization engine executing on an appliance, data packets transmitted over a network between a sender and a recipient;
analyzing, by the network optimization engine, the received data packets to determine whether respective ones of the received data packets comprise a mark identifying a first traffic class in a set of traffic classes, at least on…

Assignees

• Keith Seth
• Citrix Systems Inc

Inventors

• Keith Seth

Classifications

• H04L47/2441

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L47/2433 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L47/22

  Electricity · mapped topic