Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Global usage tracking and quota enforcement in a distributed computing system
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Application No.: US15682018Application Date: 2017-08-21
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Publication No.: US10372504B2Publication Date: 2019-08-06
- Inventor: Frederick R. Shotton , Igor Levin , Harutyun Movsisyan
- Applicant: Akamai Technologies, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US MA Cambridge
- Assignee: Akamai Technologies, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Akamai Technologies, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US MA Cambridge
- Main IPC: G06F15/16
- IPC: G06F15/16 ; G06F9/50 ; H04L12/24 ; H04L29/08 ; G06F9/46 ; H04L29/06

Abstract:
This patent document describes systems and methods for tracking the usage of a service provided by a distributed computing platform and for the enforcement of a global quota against such usage. In one embodiment, Servers in the platform are organized in a hierarchical manner. At the lowest tier resides a set of globally distributed servers, any one of which may receive and respond to client device requests. Multiple tiers of aggregation servers sit above the above the delivery tier. The first tier of aggregation servers receive usage measurements from the delivery tier. The second and higher tiers aggregate the usage measurements from lower tiers until a world level tier combines all usage measurements for a given service. Preferably, usage information is passed between servers in synchronization events. The systems and methods described herein are scalable, low latency, fault-tolerant, and incur relatively low computing overhead.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190042323A1 GLOBAL USAGE TRACKING AND QUOTA ENFORCEMENT IN A DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2019-02-07
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