Patent ID: 9515932
Filing Date: 2016-12-06
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method for conducting priority and compliance based message traffic shaping, the method comprising: aggregating, by an egress function, message traffic originated by a plurality of client entities and directed to a target server entity via a plurality of ingress functions; procuring, by the egress function, dynamic update data that includes a message processing capacity threshold value associated with the target server entity and an aggregated message traffic rate corresponding to the message traffic received from the plurality of ingress functions; sending the dynamic update data to each of the plurality of ingress functions; and adjusting, by each of the ingress functions, an outgoing message traffic rate directed to the target server entity in accordance with the dynamic update data, wherein adjusting the outgoing message traffic rate includes discarding, at each of the ingress functions, incoming message traffic received from client entities in accordance with the dynamic update data and a stored traffic shaping profile that includes message priority designations and compliance designations for each of the client entities.