US Patent 8495207 Network system for policing resource intensive behaviors

A system may include a network traffic policing system configured to monitor resource intensive users and applications of a wireless communication network. The network traffic policing system may include a processing device configured to determine policy actions; and a plurality of policy nodes in communication with the processing device and configured to: gather statistics regarding key variables of the wireless communication network, the statistics including at least one non-data usage variable, forward updated information relating to the key variables to the processing device, and enforce at least one policy action determined by the processing device.