US 12,010,550 B2
Customer-defined capacity limit plans for communication networks
Igor A. Kostic, Redmond, WA (US); and Benjamin Wojtowicz, San Francisco, CA (US)
Assigned to Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US)
Filed by Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US)
Filed on Sep. 30, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/491,128.
Prior Publication US 2023/0100729 A1, Mar. 30, 2023
Int. Cl. H04W 28/02 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 28/0289 (2013.01) [H04W 28/0268 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system, comprising:
a radio-based network operated by a cloud provider network on behalf of a customer, the radio-based network comprised of a plurality of network functions; and
at least one computing device in the cloud provider network configured to at least:
providing a service from a network function set of the plurality of network functions to a first client device and denying the service to a second client device in response to at least one network function in the network function set being at a client device capacity limit according to at least one rule defined by the customer that establishes a priority of the first client device over the second client device, the client device capacity limit being an absolute capacity limit for the service beyond which the service cannot be provided to additional client devices; and
configure the network function set in the radio-based network to implement the at least one rule defined by the customer instead of a default rule for handling the absolute capacity limit.