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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 13, 2015
Filed:
Jul. 19, 2010
Arnaud Jacquet, London, GB;
Andrea Soppera, London, GB;
Robert J Briscoe, London, GB;
BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS, public limited company, London, GB;
Abstract
Methods and systems for policing usage by one or more users () of a data network (), said one or more users () being able to send, to receive, or to send and receive data over the network via one or more of a plurality of access nodes (), the usage of the data network resulting from respective data units consuming network resources along respective paths across the data network (), each of said data units being associated with one of a plurality of subsets of the usage of the data network, said data units having congestion indications associated therewith indicating a measure of their congestion impact.