Network traffic controller
AssigneeAT&T Corp.
InventorDavid George Lewis
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Abstract
A network traffic control system that generates traffic monitor information by monitoring the network traffic and controls the network traffic based on the traffic monitor information. The network traffic monitoring system includes a network traffic monitor and a network traffic controller. The network traffic monitor determines information such as types of communication, communicating partners, and geographical locations of the communicating partners. The network traffic controller processes the traffic monitor information. Thus, the traffic network control system reduces the cost of network communication as well as optimizes network performance based on traffic monitor information obtained by the traffic monitor.
Claims14
A method for operating a network traffic controller system, comprising:
- detecting a network communication;
- detecting data related to the network communication wherein the data includes at least one of identifing a first and a second communicating party and corresponding geographical locations of the first and the second communicating party a duration of the network communication, and a time of the network communication;
- sending the data related to the network communication as traffic monitor information to the network traffic controller;
- processing the traffic monitor information, wherein the processing the traffic monitor information, includes
- generating time periods corresponding to a communication between a first party and a second party;
- associating the corresponding geographical location with each of the first party and the second party;
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- analyzing percentages of network communication of the communications between the first party and the second party, the time periods and the corresponding geographical locations based on predetermined criteria to generate processed traffic monitor information;
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- processing the network traffic based on the traffic monitor information.
A network traffic controller system, comprising:
- a network;
- a network traffic monitor that detects a network communication and data related to the network communication wherein the data constitutes traffic monitor information that includes at least one of identifying a first and a second communicating party a corresponding geographical location of the first and the second communicating party a duration of the network communication, and a time of the network communication;
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- a network traffic controller, coupled to the network and the network traffic monitor, that processes the network traffic based on the traffic monitor information and that generates processed traffic monitor information based on a predetermined set of criteria, wherein the processed traffic information includes
- percentages of network communication of the communications between the first and the second communicating party;
- time periods corresponding to a communication between a first party and a second party:
- a corresponding geographical location with each of the first party and the second party.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.