Patent ID: 11882094
Assignee: COBALT IRON, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC H

Claim 3:
4. A computer-implemented method comprising:
associating, in a memory, each of a plurality of conditions affecting a computer network with a different corresponding network throughput level, wherein the plurality of conditions include a fire, a backup job completion, a database failure, a power outage, a weather event, and a government alert, wherein the memory associates the fire with a first network throughput level, the backup job completion with a second network throughput level, the database failure with a third network throughput level, the power outage with a fourth network throughput level, the weather event with a fifth network throughput level, and the government alert with a sixth network throughput level;
wherein associating each of the plurality of conditions with the different corresponding network throughput levels comprises associating each of the plurality of conditions with the different corresponding network throughput levels in a policy selected from a group consisting of a data custody policy, data service level policy, or network traffic adjusting policy;
setting a network throughput level setting to a default network traffic rate in the computer network;
beginning a data protection operation in the computer network at the network throughput level setting;
continually monitoring the computer network for one of the plurality of conditions;
detecting a first condition from the plurality of conditions;
in response to the detecting, adjusting the network throughput level setting to the first network throughput level, the second network throughput level, the third network throughput level, the fourth network throughput level, the fifth network throughput level, or the sixth network throughput level according to the first condition; and
perform the data protection operation using the adjusted network throughput level setting.