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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 27, 2012
Filed:
Feb. 18, 2010
Tom Foottit, Stittsville, CA;
Yong LI, Ottawa, CA;
Tom Foottit, Stittsville, CA;
Yong Li, Ottawa, CA;
Bridgewater Systems Corp., Ottawa, CA;
Abstract
Systems and methods for providing adaptive fine-grained fair usage controls are provided. Rather than providing a fixed fair usage threshold having time and data volume for all subscribers in the network, a quota manager at the policy controller defines an initial fair usage window having a longer period of time and higher data volume. When a subscriber exceeds the initial window, the quota manager provides a smaller time period and lower data volume. The quota manager continues to adapt the fair usage window in this way until a violation of the fair usage threshold is detected. The adaptive fair usage windows may be based on subscriber profile information, subscriber session information, and/or prior subscriber usage history.