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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 31, 2019
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2018
Oracle International Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Peter John Hill, Seattle, WA (US);
David Allen McArthur, Seattle, WA (US);
Sushant Ajit Mantri, Bothell, WA (US);
Amitkumar Chudasma, Lynnwood, WA (US);
Michael Thomas Banatt, Westford, MA (US);
Dale Raymond Worley, Waltham, MA (US);
Oracle International Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Abstract
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.