Oracle International Corporation

Sushant Ajit Mantri

Peter John Hill

David Allen McArthur

Dale Raymond Worley

Michael Thomas Banatt

Amitkumar Chudasma

Tal Altman

Operations include determining billing for data being transmitted out of an Autonomous System (AS). An internal node in the AS determines billing for a packet transmitted out of the AS based at least on an egress path of the packet. The packet is received at the internal node in the AS The internal node selects an egress path of the packet based on one or more characteristics of the packet. The egress path is mapped directly or indirectly to a billing counter. The billing counter is incremented based on (a) the transmission of the packet on the overlay network to the egress gateway and (b) transmission of the packet out of the AS on the selected egress path.

Overlay network billing

Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with network peering discovery are described. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, and storing in a data structure, a customer location where a customer terminal is located, and platform information identifying a multi-tenant platform. A network exchange point is identified, and includes network hardware where a physical network connection to the multi-tenant platform is to be established for the customer terminal. If a distance separating the network exchange point from the customer location does not exceed a threshold, the data structure is modified to include a local network connection between the network exchange point and the customer terminal. If the distance exceeds the threshold, the data structure is modified to include a third-party network between the customer terminal and the network exchange point. The modified data structure is transmitted to a remote computer terminal to control creation of a peer connection.

Network peering discovery system and method

Operations include determining billing for data being transmitted out of an Autonomous System (AS). An internal node in the AS determines billing for a packet transmitted out of the AS based at least on an egress path of the packet. The packet is received at the internal node in the AS via a particular overlay network of a plurality of overlay networks. Each overlay network may be associated with a corresponding tenant of a set of tenants. The internal node selects an egress path of the packet based on one or more characteristics of the packet. The egress path and the overlay network are mapped directly or indirectly to a billing counter. The billing counter is incremented based on (a) the transmission of the packet on the overlay network to the egress gateway and (b) transmission of the packet out of the AS on the selected egress path.

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Sushant Ajit Mantri