Network-aware adapter for applications

摘要

Streams of data traffic from various applications may be handled by a network-aware adapter module as part of a greater platform for filtering communicating the streams to intelligent network components. A distinguishing factor associated with a given data stream may be determined and used as a basis for selecting a QoS policy setting for the given data stream. The selected QoS policy setting may then be signaled to a media access control layer to take advantage of the QoS function of the embedded underlying active media type that is active and optimal (both from technical and business perspective) to carry out the communication for the application.

主权项

1. A method for providing filtering capability for communicating to a data network, the method comprising:
receiving an instruction to initialize a callout driver for a callout module; adding a filter for a specific application to the callout module; receiving a packet stream coming from the specific application for which the filter has been established; executing specific filtering capability associated with the filter on the packet stream received from the specific application; unloading the callout driver after the packet stream has terminated; and processing a notify function to notify the callout module that the filter was deleted.