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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 23, 2018
Filed:
May. 26, 2016
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Arlington, VA (US);
Cellco Partnership, Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Lalit R. Kotecha, San Ramon, CA (US);
John F. Macias, Antelope, CA (US);
Patricia R. Chang, San Ramon, CA (US);
David Chiang, Fremont, CA (US);
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
A system comprising: one or more server devices to: set a first network threshold level for determining network congestion in a network; set rate limiting criteria for determining when one or more subscribers will be rate limited; detect an increase in network congestion at a base station above the first network threshold level; identify one or more subscribers meeting one or more of the rate limiting criteria; rate limit network traffic associated with the one or more subscribers; detect a decrease in network congestion at the base station below a second network threshold level; and remove the rate limiting of the network traffic associated with the one or more subscribers.