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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 21, 2012
Filed:
May. 26, 2004
Xiaolin Wang, Concord, MA (US);
Sijian Lin, Boylston, MA (US);
Zachary Filan, Holden, MA (US);
Craig B. Agricola, Holden, MA (US);
Xiaolin Wang, Concord, MA (US);
Sijian Lin, Boylston, MA (US);
Zachary Filan, Holden, MA (US);
Craig B. Agricola, Holden, MA (US);
West Lane Data LLC, Las Vegas, NV (US);
Abstract
In the routing of data traffic to a common destination egress queue from a plurality of customer subscribers each contracting for respective allocations of bandwidth of data flow, a technique and system for fairly sharing any underutilized excess bandwidth and for data dropping amongst over-subscribers, while guaranteeing each subscriber its contracted-for bandwidth, and further enabling billing over-subscribers for their share of received excess bandwidth—all while maintaining the granularity of the contracted traffic flow.