	US 11,876,713 B1
	Client side backoff filter for rate limiting
Nandan B N, Shivamogga (IN); A. Sushanth Kamath, Bangalore (IN); Dhivya Arumugam, Karnataka (IN); Venkata Krishna Murthy Vadrevu, Bangalore (IN); Rajendra Jayendra Gosavi, Navi Mumbai (IN); Anil Kumar Attuluri, San Diego, CA (US); Sagar Shukla, Bagalore (IN); Jason Michael Webb, Valley Center, CA (US); and Akash Jain, Bangalore (IN)
Assigned to Intuit Inc., Mountain View, CA (US)
Filed by Intuit Inc., Mountain View, CA (US)
Filed on Mar. 13, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/183,020.
Int. Cl. H04L 67/10 (2022.01); H04L 47/11 (2022.01); H04L 67/56 (2022.01)

CPC H04L 47/115 (2013.01) [H04L 67/56 (2022.05)]

20 Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving, from a server, a backoff data packet comprising first information and second information,

wherein the first information comprises a backoff command to cease transmitting at least some requests to a service executing on the server, and

wherein the second information comprises metadata;

adding the backoff data packet to cached data stored in a cache;

receiving, from a client, a request data packet comprising a request for the service;

comparing request information, associated with the request data packet, to the cached data, including at least comparing the request information to the metadata;

blocking, responsive to a match between the request information and the cached data, the request data packet from being transmitted to the service.