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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 06, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 26, 2007
Steve Chen-lin Chang, Cupertino, CA (US);
Shyyunn Sheran Lin, San Jose, CA (US);
Junekang Yang, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Jianbin Zhao, Saratoga, CA (US);
Ludwig Alexander Clemm, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Steve Chen-Lin Chang, Cupertino, CA (US);
Shyyunn Sheran Lin, San Jose, CA (US);
Junekang Yang, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Jianbin Zhao, Saratoga, CA (US);
Ludwig Alexander Clemm, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a network device is described as including a rate monitor to monitor an actual individual message rate of event messages sent from each one of a plurality of sending devices operatively in communication with the network device, an allocator to allocate an individual message rate limit to each of the plurality of sending devices, and a communication module to communicate a rate limit instruction to at least one of the sending devices, the rate limit instruction to limit the transmission rate of event messages.