发明名称 |
Mechanism for tracking traffic statistics on a per packet basis to enable variable price billing |
摘要 |
A method, system and computer program product for generating variable price billing whereby a customer may balance its data traffic in response to such billing. A subsystem in an edge gateway may extract the packet header from a copy of a received packet of data associated with a session between a customer and a server and generate a key based on the extracted packet header. The key may be used to index into a table that may store pointers to particular statistics records associated with particular sessions. Once the subsystem identifies the statistics record associated with the current session, the subsystem may execute a per packet statistics update for the statistics record associated with the session. A per packet statistics update may include one or more of the following: time stamping arrival of the packet, updating packet count, updating byte count, determining transfer rate, determining distance packet traveled. |
申请公布号 |
US8301521(B2) |
申请公布日期 |
2012.10.30 |
申请号 |
US20020218958 |
申请日期 |
2002.08.12 |
申请人 |
MILLARD THOMAS ALAN;NOEL, JR. FRANCIS EDWARD;SLAGER ROSEMARY VENEMA;STROLE NORMAN CLARK;INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION |
发明人 |
MILLARD THOMAS ALAN;NOEL, JR. FRANCIS EDWARD;SLAGER ROSEMARY VENEMA;STROLE NORMAN CLARK |
分类号 |
G07F19/00;G06Q30/00;H04L12/14;H04L12/24;H04M15/00 |
主分类号 |
G07F19/00 |
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