Network resource management with prediction

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9246783-B2
Application number	US-201414542583-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 15, 2014
Priority date	Mar 17, 2010
Publication date	Jan 26, 2016
Grant date	Jan 26, 2016

Abstract

An indicator for a device may provide an indication that a threshold associated with a budget for a network resource has or will be reached. When a user requests a network operation that will consume the network resource, an amount of the network resource to be consumed by the operation is predicted, if possible. If the prior use of the network resource and the amount to be used to complete the network operation exceeds a threshold the user may be warned and given an opportunity to cancel the operation or adjust the way in which the operation will be performed. If the amount of network resource a network operation will consume is unknown, a rate of use of the network resource is determined and a time until the budget is reached is estimated.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A computing device for managing usage of a network resource, the computing device including a memory and a processor that are respectively configured to store and execute instructions, including instructions that:
obtain, from a remote source, a usage limit associated with the network resource;
receive input regarding a budget for the network resource allocated to each resource consumer of a plurality of resource consumers via an administrative inter…

Assignees

• Microsoft Corp
• Microsoft Technology Licensing Llc

Inventors

• Hassan Amer A
• Anders Jr Billy R
• Teh Pehkeong
• Baron Andrew T
• Guday Shai
• Parks Upshur W
• Piumatti Marco
• Anipko Dmitry A

Classifications

• H04L43/0876 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L12/1421 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L41/0896

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L41/5003

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L67/75

  Electricity · mapped topic