System and method for bandwidth control
AssigneeCA, Inc.
InventorSanjay Saxena
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Abstract
A method for bandwidth control includes maintaining priority rules for IP traffic. The method further includes determining current traffic characteristics associated with at least a portion of the IP traffic. The method also includes modifying a priority level based in part on the current traffic characteristics. In one embodiment, the method includes modifying a priority level based on a priority level associated with another user, application, protocol type, or interface identifier. In accordance with another embodiment, priority levels are modified in a plurality of networks or network elements.
Claims23
A method for managing Internet Protocol traffic, comprising:
- maintaining priority rules corresponding to anticipated Internet Protocol traffic characteristics associated with a plurality of entities during a particular timeframe, each priority rule defining a priority level of access to bandwidth associated with an entity of the plurality of entities during the particular timeframe relative to other entities of the plurality of entities during the particular timeframe;
- determining current Internet Protocol traffic characteristics associated with at least a portion of the plurality of entities during the particular timeframe;
- automatically modifying the priority level of access to bandwidth associated with a given entity of the plurality of entities based at least in part on an analysis of the current Internet Protocol traffic characteristics.
A communication system, comprising:
- a priority mapping database operable to maintain priority rules corresponding to anticipated Internet Protocol traffic characteristics associated with a plurality of entities during a particular timeframe, each priority rule defining a priority level of access to bandwidth associated with an entity of the plurality of entities during the particular timeframe relative to other entities of the plurality of entities during the particular timeframe;
- a traffic analyzer operable to determine current Internet Protocol traffic characteristics associated with at least a portion of the plurality of entities during the particular timeframe;
- a priority enforcer operable to modify the priority level of access to bandwidth associated with a given entity of the plurality of entities based at least in part on an analysis of the current Internet Protocol traffic characteristics.
A non-transitory computer readable medium encoded with logic, the logic when executed by a processor operable to:
- maintain priority rules corresponding to anticipated Internet Protocol traffic characteristics associated with a plurality of entities during a particular timeframe, each priority rule defining a priority level of access to bandwidth associated with an entity of the plurality of entities during the particular timeframe relative to other entities of the plurality of entities during the particular timeframe;
- determine current Internet Protocol traffic characteristics associated with at least a portion of the plurality of entities during the particular timeframe;
- automatically modify the priority level of access to bandwidth associated with a given entity of the plurality of entities based at least in part on an analysis of the current Internet Protocol traffic characteristics.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.