Dynamic token bucket adjusting to power users
US12068960B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Oct 3, 2022 |
| Grant date | Aug 20, 2024 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 3, 2042 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L2463/00
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A method and system for reducing triggering of throughput penalties imposed on a group of users by a software-as-a-service (SaaS) server due to Application Programming Interface (API) calls exceeding limits of the SaaS server. The approaches include intercepting requests to the SaaS server from a user group and monitoring both a rate of API calls for the requests and a rate of API events generated by forwarding the API calls to the SaaS server, intercepting the SaaS server's responses, where some of the responses indicate a throughput penalty imposed by the server, identifying one or more power users from the user group based on the rate of generated notifications, and throttling the rate of the API calls for the requests submitted by the identified power users of the user group to the SaaS server in accordance with an API call throttle limit, thus reducing triggering of the throughput penalty.
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