PACKET TRANSMISSION ON A CLIENT USING IMPLICIT ENABLING OF FEATURES BASED ON SERVICE CLASSIFICATIONS

摘要

A method implemented on a client device having a networking layer and a network driver layer for transmitting network packets comprising: receiving a packet to be transmitted from the client device to a destination over a network socket; classifying the packet according to an implicit packet service classification provided by the networking layer or a user-specific packet service classification explicitly specified by an application, the implicit classification having a default traffic classification queue and default scheduler associated therewith and the user-specified classification having a user-specified traffic classification and user-specified scheduler associated therewith; and enqueuing and scheduling the packet for transmission according to either the default or the user-specific traffic classifications.