Patent ID: 8296451
Filing Date: 2012-10-23
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for flow controlling data requests in a computer network, comprising: receiving an initial request message from a flow controlled device, the initial request message being associated with a data request from a requesting browser for data at a protected source; sending an initial response message to the flow controlled device, the initial response message indicating whether the flow controlled device has permission to send the data request to the protected source; sending a request to send message to the flow controlled device subsequent to sending an initial response message that indicates the flow controlled device does not have permission to send the data request to the protected source, the request to send message indicating that the flow controlled device has permission to send the data request to a protected server; receiving a response status message from the flow controlled device, in response to sending request to send message, the response status message indicating how many data requests were received and processed.