US 12,278,764 B2
Facilitating access to web flows utilizing network access tokens according to network capacity
Thomas Kiencke, Hamburg (DE); and Arne Franken, Hamburg (DE)
Assigned to Adobe Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed by Adobe Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed on Nov. 4, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/518,870.
Prior Publication US 2023/0139078 A1, May 4, 2023
Int. Cl. H04L 12/26 (2006.01); H04L 9/40 (2022.01); H04L 43/0876 (2022.01); H04L 43/16 (2022.01); H04L 47/11 (2022.01); H04L 47/12 (2022.01); H04L 47/20 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 47/12 (2013.01) [H04L 43/0876 (2013.01); H04L 43/16 (2013.01); H04L 47/11 (2013.01); H04L 47/20 (2013.01); H04L 63/0807 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions that, when executed by at least one processor, cause a computing device to:
determine, for one or more servers hosting a web flow including a set of interconnected webpages, a limited network capacity indicating a threshold number of client devices that the one or more servers support within the web flow;
receive requests from client devices to access the web flow hosted by the one or more servers;
provide, according to the limited network capacity of the one or more servers, a network access token to a first client device of the client devices to permit the first client device to access the web flow;
withhold, according to the limited network capacity of the one or more servers, network access tokens from a second client device of the client devices to prevent the second client device from accessing the web flow;
in response to determining that the first client device exits the web flow, issue an additional network access token to permit the second client device to access the web flow;
receive an additional request from the second client device to navigate to a particular webpage among the set of interconnected webpages within the web flow; and
in response to determining that the second client device possesses the additional network access token, permit the second client device to access the particular webpage within the web flow.