Dynamic rate limiting for saas applications
AssigneeSaaS.group LLC
InventorsZoltan BETTENBUK, Ian Kenneth WILLIAMS
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Abstract
A method is provided for dynamic rate limiting of user requests for a service implemented in a computer system. The method includes defining a standard rate limit as an active rate limit for a first user, receiving one or more requests from the first user defining a rate exceeding the active rate limit, and determining a maximum safe system rate for a system implementing the method. The method may then redefine the active rate limit as the lower of the maximum safe system rate and a previously defined burst rate limit associated with the first user. The system may then execute the one or more requests from the first user at or below the redefined active rate limit.
Claims22
A method for dynamic rate limiting of requests comprising:
- defining a standard rate limit as an active rate limit for a first user;
- receive one or more requests from the first user defining a rate exceeding the active rate limit;
- determining a maximum safe system rate for a system implementing the method;
- redefining the active rate limit as the lower of the maximum safe system rate and a previously defined burst rate limit associated with the first user;
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- executing the one or more requests from the first user at or below the redefined active rate limit.
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