Patent ID: 11936536
Assignee: RISC NETWORKS, LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 8:
9. A system comprising:
computer-readable memory storing computer-executable instructions; and
one or more processors in communication with the computer-readable memory and configured by the computer-executable instructions to at least:
monitor communications among network resources of a networked environment to generate monitoring data, wherein the network resources include a plurality of network devices and a plurality of applications;
identify, based at least partly on the monitoring data, media access control addresses (MAC addresses) corresponding to the plurality of network devices, wherein the plurality of network devices and the plurality of applications distribute the communications among the network resources using the MAC addresses;
identify one or more non-intermediated communication relationships based at least partly on the MAC addresses, wherein a non-intermediated communication relationship comprises a first network resource associated with a first MAC address of the MAC addresses communicatively connected to at least a second network resource associated with a second MAC address of the MAC addresses without any network resource, communicatively intermediate the first network resource and the second network resource, associated with a MAC address;
determine individual network resources are in a reference group of network resources based at least partly on the individual network resources in the reference group of network resources each having non-intermediated communication relationships with at least a threshold number of network resources;
identify the first network resource as a critical interface based at least partly on the first network resource being an individual network resource being in non-intermediated communication relationships with a threshold number of network resources from the reference group of network resources, and based at least partly on data communicated via the first network resource; and
perform a migration action based at least partly on the first network resource being the critical interface.