Patent ID: 8346923
Filing Date: 2013-01-01
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of operating a client computing facility to control available bandwidth to applications, the method comprising: receiving a notification of a request for network access by an application executing on the client computing facility from a firewall of the client computing facility that is connected to a data network; identifying the application as an identified application according to two or more of a type of the application, a name of the application, and a version of the application, thereby providing an identified application; determining a permitted bandwidth including a maximum allowable bandwidth for the identified application based upon a network access policy for the identified application, wherein the network access policy is administered according to a corporate policy maintained by a remote threat management facility; configuring the firewall of the client computing facility to regulate a bandwidth between the identified application and the data network according to the permitted bandwidth and according to a predetermined quota; allowing the application to establish network communications through the firewall according to the request for network access; and applying a different network access policy to the network communications when usage by the application reaches the predetermined quota, the different network access policy selected by the remote threat management facility according to the corporate policy to address a threat or a policy violation detected by the remote threat management facility.