A system and method for policing one or more flows of a data stream of packets associated with differing transmission protocols. The current capacity level for each flow is determined, as is the packet protocol associated with each packet. A packet parameter in the packet that is indicative of the bandwidth...http://www.google.de/patents/US20050195855?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US20050195855 - System and method for policing multiple data flows and multi-protocol data flows