Disclosed is a Quality of Service (QoS) control mechanism for QoS-aware network applications running on computer devices. The mechanism provides IP socket-based QoS Application Program Interfaces (APIs) for QoS-aware applications for accessing MAC layer QoS function of network access devices. In various...http://www.google.de/patents/US20080181116?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US20080181116 - Quality of service application programming interface over socket
