A method for granular policing includes a novel policing architecture which evaluates an arriving cell's conformance by comparing the actual arrival characteristic against a family or a set of expected arrival curves. In embodiments of the present invention, expected arrival characteristics based on a connection service level agreement (SLA) are represented by a family of N arrival curves. The degree of non-conformance of a cell is evaluated by inspecting, which m arrival curves were violated an...

Techniques for obtaining a closest match connection to a resource (e.g., a database) from a cache are provided. The request specifies desired attribute values for the connection and a closest match connection is identified. The attributes can have associated weights that are utilized in order to determine the closest match connection to satisfy the connection request.

A block transfer technique is provided for controlling a data transfer to and/or from a WLAN (Wireless Local Area Network) device connected to a data processing system. The data processing system comprises an operating system independent access controller and a platform specific data block transfer engine. The operating system independent access controller is configured to prepare the platform specific data block transfer engine to perform the data transfer to and/or from the WLAN device.

The invention provides a method and apparatus for policing a traffic flow in which a first stage of policing is performed on the traffic flow to produce a first stage conforming flow and a first stage violating flow. These two flows are then policed again in a second stage of policing, such that the first stage conforming flow can take advantage of a capacity allowed for the first stage violating flow which is unused by the first stage violating flow. In some embodiments, performing a first stag...

Disclosed is a wireless LAN (Local Area Network) system which overcomes a troublesome operation and process of setting QoS needed for each LAN at the time of using various LANs in a home, an office, countless Hotspots and so forth. The wireless LAN system has a terminal and LAN control section. The terminal has a QoS (Quality of Service) analyzing/setting section which requests of the LAN control section for a QoS management table as a QoS policy to manage QoS of communication data at the time o...

Active client buffer management methods, systems, and apparatus for transmitting electronic data from a server to a client having a limited receive buffer are disclosed. The receive buffer is managed by determining a consumption rate at the client and adjusting the transmission rate of the server responsive to the determined consumption rate to manage the fill level of the receive buffer.

According to the present disclosure there is provided a method and means for rolling tubular blooms to form tubes, in which at tubular bloom is passed during a plurality of working passes over a corresponding plurality of consecutive plugs arranged on a tension-loaded plug mandrel, said working passes being followed by a consecutive smoothing pass, wherein said working and smoothing passes are carried out in a continuous operation, in sequence, during which operation the external diameter of the...

A flexible, policy-based, mechanism for managing, monitoring, and prioritizing traffic within a network and allocating bandwidth to achieve true quality of service (QoS) is provided. According to one aspect of the present invention, a method is provided for managing bandwidth allocation in a network that employs a non-deterministic access protocol, such as an Ethernet network. A packet forwarding device receives information indicative of a set of traffic groups, such as: a MAC address, or IEEE 8...

A flexible, policy-based, mechanism for managing, monitoring, and prioritizing traffic within a network and allocating bandwidth to achieve true quality of service (QoS) is provided. According to one aspect of the present invention, a method is provided for managing bandwidth allocation in a network that employs a non-deterministic access protocol, such as an Ethernet network. A packet forwarding device receives information indicative of a set of traffic groups, such as: a MAC address, or IEEE 8...

A protocol processing apparatus and method in a mobile communication system operates a transmitting end according to whether transmission errors occur in a wireless section in consideration of conditions of the wireless section. A TCP processing apparatus and method of a base transceiver subsystem (BTS) in a mobile communication system can operate a TCP sending end in a persist or congestion override mode by setting a window size of the TCP sending end as `0` if an Ack is not arrived from a TPC ...