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Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 2020

Filed:

Jun. 25, 2013
Applicant:

Amazon Technologies, Inc., Reno, NV (US);

Inventors:

Stuart Henry Seelye Marshall, Seattle, WA (US);

Wei Xiao, Kirkland, WA (US);

Bjorn Patrick Swift, Seattle, WA (US);

Kiran-Kumar Muniswamy-Reddy, Seattle, WA (US);

Miguel Mascarenhas Filipe, Seattle, WA (US);

Yijun Lu, Kenmore, WA (US);

Stefano Stefani, Issaquah, WA (US);

James R. Hamilton, Seattle, WA (US);

Assignee:

Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 40/00 (2012.01); H04L 12/801 (2013.01); G06Q 30/02 (2012.01); G06F 9/50 (2006.01); H04L 12/819 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 47/12 (2013.01); G06F 9/5005 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0283 (2013.01); H04L 47/215 (2013.01);
Abstract

A pricing policy to be applied to token population changes at a token bucket used for admission control during burst-mode operations at a work target is determined. Over a time period, changes to the token population of that bucket are recorded. An amount to be charged to a client is determined, based on the recorded changes in token population and an associated pricing amount indicated in the policy.


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