Patent ID: 8743703
Filing Date: 2014-06-03
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for tracking application resource usage, comprising: gathering network performance information of a communications network using performance information packet (PIP) data packets; communicating the PIP data packets to an application; extracting the network performance information from the PIP data packets in response to receiving the PIP data packets at the application; identifying, by the application, network performance issues based on the network performance information from the PIP data packets; executing instructions in the application in response to extracting the network performance information from the PIP data packets, wherein executing the instructions includes determining whether the application is a cause of the network performance issues and executing an instruction to terminate and restart the application in response to determining that the application is the cause of the network performance issues; and throttling data streams to a plurality of applications through access nodes of a communications system based on the usage of real-time and non real-time data of the plurality of applications.