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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 25, 2018

Filed:

Jan. 14, 2016
Applicant:

Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);

Inventors:

Soumik Biswas, Bangalore, IN;

Jonathan Cook, San Jose, CA (US);

Vinay Eswara, Bangalore, IN;

Jai Krishna, Bangalore, IN;

Assignee:

VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/911 (2013.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); G06F 9/50 (2006.01); G06F 9/455 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 47/781 (2013.01); G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 9/5077 (2013.01); H04L 67/10 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45595 (2013.01);
Abstract

A cloud computing system includes services that provide virtual cloud computing resources. The service publishes service events that are transformed into periodic rating data as per centralized, pluggable, service-specific business rules. The cloud computing system includes a metering service that reduces network traffic for billing using a carry-forward mechanism that remembers a last-known rating state. Anomalies in the last-known state, such as, from lost or duplicate service events, can be detected via a reconciliation protocol between the metering service and cloud computing services.


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