Patent ID: 9577899
Date: 2017-02-21
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. A method for regulating communication network bandwidth, the method comprising: monitoring data traffic over a network using a centralized traffic management server, wherein the traffic management server continuously monitors a sample of incoming packets sent by at least one client node; predicting network loads, wherein the traffic management server computes a load information based on a frequency, a rate of change, and a content of the sample of incoming packets; setting a send-probability value in response to network traffic conditions on the traffic management server; transmitting the send-probability value from the traffic management server to the at least one client node in a first information packet; utilizing the send-probability value at the at least one client node to compute a randomized data transmission time; transmitting a data packet by the at least one client node at the computed randomized data transmission time; receiving the data packet at the traffic management server; and generating and sending a second information packet by the traffic management server to the at least one client nodes, wherein the second information packet provides a new send-probability value for a next transmission.