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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 27, 2001
Filed:
Sep. 10, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Milton B. Hernandez, River Edge, NJ (US);
Dmitry Kusnetsov, Brooklyn, NY (US);
Pablo E. Tapia, Maywood, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Apogee Networks, Inc., Rochelle Park, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/560 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/560 ;
Abstract
A method and a system determines billing information for use of a network. For a data transmission on a path between a pair of node locations, the price for the transmission depends, inter alia, on the amount of data transported and the price of using the path. The method collects traffic data for data transmissions sent over links of the network, selects a set of paths connecting each pair of node locations, and determines a price for data transported between the pairs. The method bills an allocated portion of the total price for each pair to each node location of the pair.