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Date of Patent:
Dec. 20, 2016

Filed:

Dec. 24, 2013
Applicant:

Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Arlington, VA (US);

Inventors:

Dante J. Pacella, Charles Town, WV (US);

Mark D. Carney, Sterling, VA (US);

Syed Ammar Ahmad, Ashburn, VA (US);

Josyula Venkata, Ashburn, VA (US);

Assignee:

Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/725 (2013.01); H04L 12/803 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 47/125 (2013.01); H04L 45/306 (2013.01);
Abstract

A server may receive flow information from multiple network devices. The flow information may include information regarding multiple data flows received by the multiple network devices and destined for a client device. The server may determine generate an optimization instruction, based on flow information, to re-route one or more of the plurality of data flows or to apply filters to the one or more of the plurality of data flows; provide the optimization instruction to cause one or more of the multiple network devices to re-route one or more of the multiple data flows or to apply filters to the one or more data flows to alleviate overloaded network components or to re-route network resources to or from the client device; receive updated flow information after receiving the flow information; generate an updated optimization instruction based on the updated flow information; and provide the updated optimization instruction.


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