A PRACTICAL MODEL FOR HIGH SPEED FILE DELIVERY SERVICES SUPPORTING GUARANTEED DELIVERY TIMES AND DIFFERENTIATED SERVICE LEVELS

摘要

A practical economic and technical model for building commercial-grade electronic file delivery services that provide the same scale, predictability, and differentiated service levels as physical courier services traditionally used to move electronic data on physical media. Systems and methods for providing such services using a charge-back scheme based on congestion pricing are described. Fig 6 WO 2009/091580 PCT/US2009/000275 Free Overage Paid Overage Over-booking Transfer Policies -e AGuaranteed User A User B Fig.2 Time Virtual Link Network P, Host Processor 60Fi. 6