Prioritizing local and network traffic

摘要

According to some aspects as described herein, a user may purchase or otherwise be provided with an accelerated service for selected software applications, devices, and/or ports to experience a high level of communication. The accelerated service may be created, for example, by using a dedicated network data flow such that the user's customer premise equipment (CPE) network access device may put priority traffic in a different upstream data flow than the commonly shared flow, which may involve tagging the traffic upstream to the network with a priority indicator such as a flow identifier. Based on similar factors, the user may also control local priority of data received downstream from the network for distribution to one or more local devices.

主权项

1. A method, comprising:
receiving, at a computing device associated with a user, an identification of a software application and an identification of a local device communicatively coupled to the computing device, wherein the identification of the software application comprises a first application signature; determining, by the computing device, whether a received data packet identifies the local device and is associated with the software application; assigning a user-identified priority indicator to the received data packet responsive to if a second application signature associated with the received data packet corresponds to the first application signature and the received data packet identifies the local device, wherein the second application signature is obtained from the received data packet by examining a format of the received data packet; and sending the data packet via a network flow associated with the priority indicator.