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Method and apparatus for controlling utilization in a horizontally scaled software application

US9112809B2 · US · B2

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Publication numberUS-9112809-B2
Application numberUS-201213683549-A
CountryUS
Kind codeB2
Filing dateNov 21, 2012
Priority dateNov 21, 2012
Publication dateAug 18, 2015
Grant dateAug 18, 2015

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The present invention comprises an apparatus and method for distributed traffic control in a horizontally scaled application, in which a software-based application is implemented as a number of peer application instances that each provide a portion of the application's overall capability or capacity. An apparatus that includes a distributed traffic controller is instantiated or otherwise implemented at each application instance, and these apparatuses collectively operate to limit the overall utilization of the application by individual clients or affiliated groups of clients according to, e.g., Service Level Agreements or SLAs, and further operate to prevent disproportionate utilization of any one of the application instances. Advantageously, such operations are accomplished according to the teachings herein using efficient information propagation protocols between the distributed traffic controllers.

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What is claimed is: 1. A method of controlling a utilization of a software application by an individual client, wherein the application is implemented as a number of peer application instances that receive application traffic from any one or more clients in a plurality of clients and wherein the method at each application instance comprises: classifying the application traffic incoming to the application instance into flows corresponding to different ones of the clients and/or dif…

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What does patent US9112809B2 cover?
The present invention comprises an apparatus and method for distributed traffic control in a horizontally scaled application, in which a software-based application is implemented as a number of peer application instances that each provide a portion of the application's overall capability or capacity. An apparatus that includes a distributed traffic controller is instantiated or otherwise implem…
Who is the assignee on this patent?
Ericsson Telefon Ab L M, Ericsson Telefon Ab L M
What technology area does this patent fall under?
Primary CPC classification H04L41/5009. Mapped technology areas include Electricity.
When was this patent published?
Publication date Tue Aug 18 2015 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) (B2). Legal status and post-grant events are not shown on this page.
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We list 8 related publications on this page (citations in our corpus or others sharing the same primary CPC).