Patent ID: 9124594
Filing Date: 2015-09-01
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for flow controlling data requests in a computer network, comprising: transmitting an initial request message to a flow controlled server, the initial request message being associated with a data request from a requesting browser and requesting permission to retrieve data from a protected source, the initial request message including a request identifier associated with the data request; receiving an initial response message from the flow controlled server, the initial response message indicating whether permission is granted to send the data request to the protected source, the initial response message upon permission being granted including a pause value indicating a length of time before a status page is to be sent to the browser, a refresh value indicating a length of time before the browser is to send the request identified associated with the data request, and a uniform resource locator of the status page; and sending the data request to the protected source through the flow controlled server.