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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 03, 2009
Filed:
Feb. 04, 2003
Michael A. Lloyd, Belmont, CA (US);
Mansour J. Karam, Mountain View, CA (US);
Jose-miguel Puildo Villaverde, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Sean P. Finn, Belmont, CA (US);
Omar C. Baldonado, Palo Alto, CA (US);
James G. Mcguire, San Francisco, CA (US);
Herbert S. Madan, Tiburon, CA (US);
Michael A. Lloyd, Belmont, CA (US);
Mansour J. Karam, Mountain View, CA (US);
Jose-Miguel Puildo Villaverde, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Sean P. Finn, Belmont, CA (US);
Omar C. Baldonado, Palo Alto, CA (US);
James G. McGuire, San Francisco, CA (US);
Herbert S. Madan, Tiburon, CA (US);
Avaya Technology Corp., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
Methods, computer code, and means are described that can control load in a network. In some applications, the monetary cost of operating the network can be reduced. Utilization of links in the network can be monitored. A degree of suboptimality with respect to some criteria can be assessed. In some instances, the criteria could be based at least partly one or more monetary billing structures of some subset of two or more links. A subset of the forwarding decisions of one or more forwarding nodes in the network can be adjusted automatically, based at least partly on the assessing. The adjustment can attempt to reduce the degree of suboptimality.