US 12,328,262 B2
Global policers
Niv Aibester, Herzliya (IL); Aviv Kfir, Nili (IL); Gil Levy, Hod Hasharon (IL); and Liron Mula, Ramat Gan (IL)
Assigned to Mellanox Technologies, Ltd., Yokneam (IL)
Filed by MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., Yokneam (IL)
Filed on Jul. 21, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/869,821.
Application 17/869,821 is a continuation in part of application No. 16/746,879, filed on Jan. 19, 2020, granted, now 11,516,135.
Prior Publication US 2022/0368639 A1, Nov. 17, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04L 41/16 (2022.01); H04L 47/20 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 47/20 (2013.01) 22 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. Apparatus for global traffic policing, comprising:
a network device comprising a local traffic policer which performs for each of a plurality of flows:
monitor an amount of bandwidth of the flow passing through the network device, and perform traffic policing on the flow within the network device; and
a communications module which periodically performs:
send local traffic policer state information, including the monitored amount of bandwidth passing through the network device, for each of the flows, from the local traffic policer to a remote global traffic policer; and
in response to sending the local policer state information, receive from the remote global traffic policer, remote global traffic policer state information, including instructions for the traffic policing,
wherein the local traffic policer performs the traffic policing based on the received instructions for the traffic policing.