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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 30, 2012
Filed:
Aug. 12, 2002
Thomas Alan Millard, Cary, NC (US);
Francis Edward Noel, Jr., Durham, NC (US);
Rosemary Venema Slager, Cary, NC (US);
Norman Clark Strole, Raleigh, NC (US);
Thomas Alan Millard, Cary, NC (US);
Francis Edward Noel, Jr., Durham, NC (US);
Rosemary Venema Slager, Cary, NC (US);
Norman Clark Strole, Raleigh, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method, system and computer program product for generating variable price billing whereby a customer may balance its data traffic in response to such billing. A subsystem in an edge gateway may extract the packet header from a copy of a received packet of data associated with a session between a customer and a server and generate a key based on the extracted packet header. The key may be used to index into a table that may store pointers to particular statistics records associated with particular sessions. Once the subsystem identifies the statistics record associated with the current session, the subsystem may execute a per packet statistics update for the statistics record associated with the session. A per packet statistics update may include one or more of the following: time stamping arrival of the packet, updating packet count, updating byte count, determining transfer rate, determining distance packet traveled.