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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 12, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 25, 2012
Visa International Service Association, San Francisco, CA (US);
Avinash Kalgi, Kirkland, WA (US);
Adam Conway, Snoqualmie, WA (US);
Galina Skoptsova, Seattle, WA (US);
Mark Cordell, Bellevue, WA (US);
Visa International Service Association, San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems, apparatuses and methods for preventing requests to access a system's resources from having a negative impact on higher priority data processing operations being performed by the system. The invention is directed to preventing the number of calls made by a merchant's applications through an application programming interface (API) for access to the lower priority services of a merchant service provider from having a negative impact on the ability of the service provider to perform the processing necessary to support higher priority services. The invention provides a user interface that may be used by a merchant or the service provider to configure the operation of a 'throttle' that is designed to generate an alert when the number of calls by a merchant application for access to a specific service provider function or application exceeds a value or limit, where exceeding the value or limit may indicate a malfunction of the merchant's application or an attack by a malicious agent.