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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 16, 2016
Filed:
Nov. 09, 2011
Huei Chung Wang, Kirkland, WA (US);
Alvin K. Tan, Bothell, WA (US);
Amjad Hussain, Kirkland, WA (US);
Huei Chung Wang, Kirkland, WA (US);
Alvin K. Tan, Bothell, WA (US);
Amjad Hussain, Kirkland, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
The management of bandwidth utilization in a network system that has multiple users. The system identifies the current set of users that are accessing the network by tracking which users are newly accessing the network, which users have ceased accessing the network, and which users continue to access the network over a period of time. The system then guarantees that these identified users will have a certain minimum bandwidth over the period of time. The system then enforces the guaranteed minimum bandwidth for each of the users so that they have no less than the corresponding guaranteed minimum bandwidth. Thus, even if the network bandwidth utilization would be saturated if all requests were satisfied, the system may continue operating while provided some guaranteed level of bandwidth to each user.