Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Context-aware rate limiting
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Application No.: US16686922Application Date: 2019-11-18
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Publication No.: US11258718B2Publication Date: 2022-02-22
- Inventor: Suresh Muppala , Nafisa Mandliwala , Sirisha Myneni , Venkatakrishnan Rajagopalan
- Applicant: VMware, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Palo Alto
- Assignee: VMware, Inc.
- Current Assignee: VMware, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Palo Alto
- Agency: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP
- Main IPC: H04L12/851
- IPC: H04L12/851 ; G06F9/455 ; H04L12/861 ; H04L12/863 ; H04L47/2441 ; H04L49/90 ; H04L47/62

Abstract:
The disclosure provides an approach for rate limiting packets in a network. Embodiments include receiving, by a rate limiting engine running on a host machine, a network event related to a virtual computing instance running on the host machine, the network event comprising flow information about a network flow. Embodiments include receiving, by the rate limiting engine, context information corresponding to the network flow, wherein the context information comprises one or more of a user characteristic or an application characteristic. Embodiments include determining, by the rate limiting engine, a priority for the network flow by applying a rate limiting policy to the flow information and the context information. Embodiments include providing, by the rate limiting engine, the priority for the network flow to a multiplexer for use in rate limiting the network flow.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210152480A1 CONTEXT-AWARE RATE LIMITING Public/Granted day:2021-05-20
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