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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 18, 2004
Filed:
Jan. 25, 2000
Applicant:
Inventor:
Douglas L. Rollins, Nampa, ID (US);
Assignee:
Interland, Inc., Atlanta, GA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 3/108 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 3/108 ;
Abstract
A system includes a client subsystem and a network service provider subsystem that is coupled to the client subsystem. The network service provider subsystem is adapted to establish a connection between the network service provider subsystem and the client subsystem. The connection has an allocated bandwidth. The network service provider subsystem is further adapted to during the connection, receive a request from the client subsystem to increase the allocated bandwidth and selectively increase the allocated bandwidth in response to the request during the connection.