Patent ID: 7478158

Claim:
A system for enforcing network bandwidth limitation, comprising: an eligibility system that determines if a client or multiple clients on said network is eligible to receive requested feed data transmission from a server or multiple servers on said network based upon an amount of time since last successful receipt of a feed data transmission; if said client is not eligible, then said system is able to prevent said transmission and to withhold said feed data from said client without prolonging the duration of any network connection from said server to said client; otherwise if said client is eligible, then said system is able to permit immediate transmission of the most recent available requested feed data from said server to said client; and said system is able to determine if requested feed data in previous transmissions from said server to said client has been lost; if said previously requested feed data has been lost, then said system is able to reimburse said client for said lost requested feed data, otherwise not to reimburse said client.