Patent ID: 9185044
Filing Date: 2015-11-10
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising the following computer-implemented acts: determining computing resources used by an application controller receiving an amount of traffic from a plurality of network devices communicating traffic to the application controller; determining whether the computing resources used by the application controller are approaching a computing capacity of the application controller; sending a message to the network device to reduce the amount of traffic sent to the application controller in response to a determination that the application controller is approaching the computing capacity; receiving a reduced amount of traffic from the network device; and receiving incrementally increasing amounts of traffic sent from the network device after receiving the reduced amount of traffic from the network device, and wherein the incrementally increasing amounts of traffic vary as a function of respective incrementally increasing sending rates of traffic of each of the plurality of network devices communicating traffic to the application controller divided by a total number of the plurality of network devices.