Patent ID: 7882231

Claim:
A method for regulating communication with a server, comprising: determining a retransmission rate of data packets during a first set of conversations between a group of users and the server via a peering link in a network, wherein a given conversation in the first set of conversations was initiated within a first time interval; comparing the retransmission rate and an historical retransmission rate of data packets during a second set of conversations between a second group of users and the server via the peering link, wherein a given conversation in the second set of conversations occurred within a second time interval, and wherein the second set of conversations includes the first set of conversations, the second group of users includes the first group of users, and the second time interval includes the first time interval; adjusting a target acceptance rate of the server to requests to initiate conversations with additional users via the peering link based on the comparison of the retransmission rate and the historical retransmission rate; and accepting or rejecting a request to initiate a conversation between another user and the server via the peering link based on an actual acceptance rate of the server to requests to initiate the conversations with the additional users via the peering link and the target acceptance rate, thereby maintaining communication performance of the peering link.