Abstract: The disclosed embodiments include a system and method for establishing a price for communicating over a communications network. In one embodiment, the system includes a plurality of network nodes configured to communicate over the communications network and a primary network edge node configured to provide network access to a plurality of end user devices. The primary network edge node is configured to initiate a bandwidth occupancy query message to at least one of said network nodes along a traffic path to which an end user device is communicating, determine a highest bandwidth occupancy of said network nodes along the traffic path, and compute a current price for the end user device communicating over the traffic path based on the highest bandwidth occupancy.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 5, 2012
Date of Patent:
August 25, 2015
Assignee:
CenturyLink Intellectual Propert LLC
Inventors:
Jade Kerr, Clinton Smoyer, Andrew Cook, Michael Morrissey, Mohit Mathur