Method and system for intelligent feature degradation in response to a network deficiency detection

A system comprising:

• a monitoring module to monitor utilization metrics of a plurality of network resources;
• a processing module to determine whether utilization of the plurality of the network resources is above a threshold, to determine a category of an application-level using entity, and to determine a revenue generated by the application-level using entity;
• an aggregator to aggregate the revenue generated by the application-level using entity with additional revenues generated by application-level using entities homogenous to the application-level using entity;
• and
• a degrading module, having one or more processors, to degrade at least one application-level feature available to the application-level using entity based on the category and the revenue generated by the application-level using entity unless the utilization of the plurality of the network resources drops below the threshold, the degrading including making the at least one application-level feature unavailable to the application-level using entity.

A non-transitory machine-readable medium comprising instructions, which when implemented by one or more processors, perform operations comprising:

• monitoring utilization metrics of a plurality of network resources;
• determining whether utilization of the plurality of the network resources is above a threshold;
• determining a category of an application-level using entity;
• determining a revenue generated by the application-level using entity;
• aggregating the revenue generated by the application-level using entity with additional revenues generated by application-level using entities homogenous to the application-level using entity;
• and
• degrading at least one application-level feature available to the application-level using entity based on the category and the revenue generated by the application-level using entity unless the utilization of the plurality of the network resources drops below the threshold, the degrading including making the at least one application-level feature unavailable to the application-level using entity.

An apparatus comprising:

• means for monitoring utilization metrics of a plurality of network resources;
• means for determining whether utilization of the plurality of the network resources is above a threshold;
• means for determining a category of an application-level using entity;
• means for determining a revenue generated by the application-level using entity;
• means for aggregating the revenue generated by the application-level using entity with additional revenues generated by application-level using entities homogenous to the application-level using entity;
• and
• means for degrading at least one application-level feature available to the application-level using entity based on the category and the revenue generated by the application-level using entity unless the utilization of the plurality of the network resources drops below the threshold, the degrading including making the at least one application-level feature unavailable to the application-level using entity.