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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.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 06, 2017

Filed:

May. 21, 2013
Applicant:

Amazon Technologies, Inc., Reno, NV (US);

Inventors:

Michael Brooke Furr, Washington, DC (US);

Christopher Ian Hendrie, Centreville, VA (US);

Kevin Christopher Miller, Herndon, VA (US);

Ryan David Murphy, Ashburn, WA (US);

Sandeep Shantharaj, Herndon, VA (US);

Assignee:

Amazon Technologies, Inc., Reno, NV (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 20/14 (2012.01); H04L 12/26 (2006.01); H04L 12/14 (2006.01); H04M 15/00 (2006.01); G06Q 30/04 (2012.01); H04L 12/24 (2006.01); H04L 29/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 20/145 (2013.01); H04L 12/14 (2013.01); H04L 12/1403 (2013.01); H04L 12/1407 (2013.01); H04L 43/04 (2013.01); H04M 15/31 (2013.01); H04M 15/41 (2013.01); H04M 15/43 (2013.01); H04M 15/61 (2013.01); H04M 15/66 (2013.01); H04M 15/825 (2013.01); H04M 15/8214 (2013.01); G06Q 20/14 (2013.01); G06Q 30/04 (2013.01); H04L 12/1435 (2013.01); H04L 41/12 (2013.01); H04L 61/2514 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods and apparatus for bandwidth metering in large-scale networks are disclosed. Metadata for a network transmission involving a virtualized resource at a host of a provider network, including endpoint address information and a traffic metric, is determined at a metering component. The metadata is aggregated at another metering component and provided to a traffic classification node. The traffic classification node generates a categorized usage record for the network transmission, based at least in part on network topology information associated with the provider network. The categorized usage record is used to determine a billing amount for the network transmission.


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