Patent ID: 11956296
Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method comprising:
continuously monitoring, by a router on a local network, incoming network traffic from a source external to the local network, to detect that a bandwidth of incoming network traffic exceeds a first threshold;
in response to detecting the bandwidth exceeds the first threshold, detecting a source IP address of the incoming network traffic, intercepting the incoming network traffic to one or more local devices and sending a request to a source of the incoming network traffic to temporarily alter the all incoming network traffic to reduce overall bandwidth before redirecting the altered network traffic to an optimization analyzer, wherein the optimization analyzer analyzes the one or more incoming streams to identify one or more of the streams for alteration;
in response to identifying one or more of the incoming streams for alteration;
for each identified incoming stream,
continuously altering the identified incoming stream; and
re-directing the altered stream to the local device;
and
in response to the bandwidth of the altered incoming network traffic falling below a second threshold, stopping the temporarily altering of the incoming network traffic and routing all the incoming network traffic directly to the one or more local devices.