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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 2015
Filed:
Jul. 05, 2012
Jade Kerr, Kansas City, MO (US);
Clinton Smoyer, Raymore, MO (US);
Andrew Cook, Lexena, KS (US);
Michael Morrissey, Overland Park, KS (US);
Mohit Mathur, Olathe, KS (US);
Jade Kerr, Kansas City, MO (US);
Clinton Smoyer, Raymore, MO (US);
Andrew Cook, Lexena, KS (US);
Michael Morrissey, Overland Park, KS (US);
Mohit Mathur, Olathe, KS (US);
CenturyLink Intellectual Propert LLC, Denver, CO (US);
Abstract
The disclosed embodiments include a system and method for establishing a price for communicating over a communications network. In one embodiment, the system includes a plurality of network nodes configured to communicate over the communications network and a primary network edge node configured to provide network access to a plurality of end user devices. The primary network edge node is configured to initiate a bandwidth occupancy query message to at least one of said network nodes along a traffic path to which an end user device is communicating, determine a highest bandwidth occupancy of said network nodes along the traffic path, and compute a current price for the end user device communicating over the traffic path based on the highest bandwidth occupancy.