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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 20, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 24, 2013
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Arlington, VA (US);
Dante J. Pacella, Charles Town, WV (US);
Mark D. Carney, Sterling, VA (US);
Syed Ammar Ahmad, Ashburn, VA (US);
Josyula Venkata, Ashburn, VA (US);
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
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.