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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 23, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 09, 2012
Amer A. Hassan, Kirkland, WA (US);
Billy R. Anders, Bothell, WA (US);
Pehkeong Teh, Redmond, WA (US);
Andrew T. Baron, Redmond, WA (US);
Shai Guday, Redmond, WA (US);
Upshur W. Parks, Bothell, WA (US);
Marco Piumatti, Woodinville, WA (US);
Dmitry A. Anipko, Seattle, WA (US);
Amer A. Hassan, Kirkland, WA (US);
Billy R. Anders, Bothell, WA (US);
PehKeong Teh, Redmond, WA (US);
Andrew T. Baron, Redmond, WA (US);
Shai Guday, Redmond, WA (US);
Upshur W. Parks, Bothell, WA (US);
Marco Piumatti, Woodinville, WA (US);
Dmitry A. Anipko, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
An indicator for a device may provide an indication that a threshold associated with a budget for a network resource has or will be reached. When a user requests a network operation that will consume the network resource, an amount of the network resource to be consumed by the operation is predicted, if possible. If the prior use of the network resource and the amount to be used to complete the network operation exceeds a threshold the user may be warned and given an opportunity to cancel the operation or adjust the way in which the operation will be performed. If the amount of network resource a network operation will consume is unknown, a rate of use of the network resource is determined and a time until the budget is reached is estimated.