Method and system for throttling network transmissions using per-receiver bandwidth control at the application layer of the transmitting server

An apparatus for throttling data transmissions within a data processing system, the apparatus comprising:

• means for receiving, within the application layer of a server, information about a data transfer from a server to a client;
• means for storing, within the application layer of a server, information about the data transfer along with information about a number of recent data transfers from the server to the client;
• and
• means for delaying, within the application layer of the server, the data transfer from the application layer of the server for an amount of time that is approximately equal to a computed delay time value in response to a determination that an average data transfer rate over the-number of recent data transfers from the server to the client may exceed a data transfer rate threshold parameter.

A computer program product on a computer readable medium for use in a data processing system for throttling data transmissions within the data processing system, the computer program product comprising:

• means for receiving, within the application layer of a server, information about a data transfer from a server to a client;
• means for storing, within the application layer of a server, information about the data transfer along with information about a number of recent data transfers from the server to the client;
• and
• means for delaying, within the application layer of the server, the data transfer from the application layer of the server for an amount of time that is approximately equal to a computed delay time value in response to a determination that an average data transfer rate over the number of recent data transfers from the server to the client may exceed a data transfer rate threshold parameter.