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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 04, 2015
Filed:
Jan. 20, 2012
Applicants:
Wael Midani, Kitchener, CA;
Ling Zou, Kitchener, CA;
Marcel Villaflor, Kotonah, NY (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
BlackBerry Limited, Waterloo, Ontario, CA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 31/08 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04L 12/873 (2013.01); H04L 12/863 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 67/2804 (2013.01); H04L 47/527 (2013.01); H04L 47/6215 (2013.01);
Abstract
A communication device and method for throttling transmitted data is provided. Token parameters of an aggregate token bucket, associated with a communication application, are distributed, at a processing unit, to respective application token buckets associated with at least two further applications. The communication application is enabled to receive respective data from the at least two further applications for transmission to a network via a communication interfaces. The respective data received from the at least two further applications is throttled via the respective application token buckets.