Patent ID: 7565437
Filing Date: 2009-07-21
Classification: G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: monitoring, by a server, internet protocol data packets transmitted from one or more clients to the server; obtaining, by the server, a network address from an IP data packet transmitted by a client; processing, by the server, IP data packets from the client if a Network address that is uniquely associated with the client is stored in a client table; retrieving, by the server, a client limit value from a client limit field if the first Network address is not stored in the client table, the client limit value indicating a maximum number of unique clients for which IP data packets can be processed; transmitting, by the server, a signal to each Network address listed in the client table if the number of Network addresses in the client table is greater than or equal to the client limit value; and removing, by the server, the second Network address from the client table, inserting the first Network address into the client table and processing IP data packets from the first client if a client at a second Network address does not respond to the signal.