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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 01, 2013
Filed:
Jul. 25, 2011
Marty Kagan, North Hollywood, CA (US);
Sylvain Lauzac, Seattle, WA (US);
Eisar Lipkovitz, San Francisco, CA (US);
Marty Kagan, North Hollywood, CA (US);
Sylvain Lauzac, Seattle, WA (US);
Eisar Lipkovitz, San Francisco, CA (US);
Akamai Technologies, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
A 'velvet rope' mechanism that enables customers of a shared distributed network (such as a content delivery network) needing to control their costs to control the amount of traffic that is served via the shared network. A given server in the distributed network identifies when a customer is about to exceed a bandwidth quota as a rate (bursting) or for a given billing period (e.g., total megabytes (MB) served for a given period) and provides a means for taking a given action based on this information. Typically, the action taken would result in a reduction in traffic served so that the customer can constrain its usage of the shared network to a given budget value.