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Self-learning and best-practice profiling and alerting with relative and absolute capacity

US11080160B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateJan 29, 2019
Grant dateAug 3, 2021
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Expiry dateJan 29, 2039

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L41/16
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

For example, as indicated in the Incorporated Disclosures, rapid change from relatively little use of network bandwidth, to heavy overuse of network bandwidth (combined with a large number of endpoints attempting to access that network bandwidth) can often indicate an email virus or other maladjusted use of the system. In such cases, it could be appropriate to generate an alert, and bring the change to the attention of a human expert, or otherwise escalate the problem. In this Application, the phrase “best practices,” and variants thereof, can generally refer to business preferences (and to business rules imposed by management, or law or regulation), such as high utilization preferences often expressed by management. In such cases, one or more operators can enter descriptors of rules the system that it is desired the system follow, such as “processor cycle utilization >90%.” When these best practices are not followed, it could be appropriate to generate an alert, bring the change to the attention of a human expert, or otherwise escalate the problem. In this Application, the phrase “profiling and alerting,” and variants thereof, can generally refer to maintaining a profile of how th…

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