Patent ID: 7895353
Filing Date: 2011-02-22
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for providing traffic throttling via a budget service, said method comprising: receiving, at a gateway, one or more incoming requests from an application associated with a service provider, the request to be processed by a network node of said gateway; determining, by said gateway, a budget for the application, wherein the budget for the application reflects current request rate being sent by the application based on traffic history; determining, by said gateway, a budget for the service provider, wherein the budget for the service provider reflects current request rate being sent by the service provider based on traffic history; determining a budget for a network node in the gateway, wherein the budget for the network node reflects current request rate being processed by the network node based on traffic history; and throttling the incoming requests at the gateway according to each of: the budget for the application, the budget for the service provider and the budget for the network node; wherein throttling the incoming requests according to the budget for the application and the budget for the service provider further includes: wherein throttling the incoming requests according to the budget for the network node further includes: