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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 02, 2019

Filed:

Mar. 11, 2015
Applicant:

Sonicwall Us Holdings Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Miao Mao, Shanghai, CN;

Deepa Thilakavani Sounderraj, San Jose, CA (US);

Zhong Chen, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

SONICWALL INC., Milpitas, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/927 (2013.01); H04L 12/911 (2013.01); H04L 12/923 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 47/801 (2013.01); H04L 47/72 (2013.01); H04L 47/762 (2013.01);
Abstract

The present invention provides systems and methods for unified bandwidth management for network traffic. In particular, two or more network devices may be grouped into a single set, and bandwidth management is performed on the single set. The grouping of network devices into a single set facilitates dynamic adjustment of bandwidth management based on real-time variations in network traffic that may arise during standard operations of the network.


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