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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 08, 2019
Filed:
Jul. 21, 2016
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Seraphin B. Calo, Cortlandt Manor, NY (US);
William Cornejo, Woodhaven, NY (US);
Thai F. Le, White Plains, NY (US);
Erich M. Nahum, New York, NY (US);
Maroun Touma, Redding, CT (US);
Dinesh C. Verma, New Castle, NY (US);
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A middlebox includes a network monitor module configured to determine a quality-affective factor in a connection between a client and a server in a network. A processor is configured to compare the quality-affective factor to a threshold to determine whether the connection would benefit from a network processing function. A network control module is configured to configure a router to exclude the middlebox from the connection if the connection would not benefit from the network processing function and if the middlebox is already present in the connection to cease operation of the middlebox on the connection. Router configuration is delayed until the connection is idle.