Akamai Technologies was granted a patent for safer cloud network links

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  "detected_at": "2026-09-23T15:18:38+00:00",
  "company": {
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    "summary": "Akamai Technologies was granted a patent for safer cloud network links",
    "event_at": "2026-09-22",
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    "patent_title": "Egress link safety for large uncontrollable workloads in a computing infrastructure",
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    "uspto_assignee": "Akamai Technologies, Inc.",
    "patent_abstract": "A cloud provider implements a safety mechanism for links associated with its infrastructure. Link safety is achieved by changing how server and network capacity information is shared by the cloud provider with a customer entity that utilizes the infrastructure. To this end, the entity is provided information about defining a “mini-cluster” that is configured from a physical server cluster, and where the mini-cluster services only one particular link. A mini-cluster has one or more servers, typically virtual machines. The egress capacity of each of the servers within a mini-cluster is capped to match a maximum link capacity that is allocated to the customer entity's traffic. By dedicating a fixed set of servers to the link and capping the total server capacity to a maximum link size defined for a given customer, traffic provided by the customer entity's software system is controlled to prevent link overload.",
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