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

Claim 0:
1. A system comprising:
a memory; and
at least one processor to:
associate, in the 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 time of day, a type of data protection operation being performed, a business priority of data being transferred, and a locality of data, wherein the memory associates the time of day with a first network throughput level, the type of data protection operation with a second network throughput level, the business priority of data being transferred with a third network throughput level, and the locality of data with a fourth network throughput level;
wherein the at least one processor is to associate each of the plurality of conditions with the different corresponding network throughput level within a policy selected from a group consisting of a data custody policy, data service level policy, or network traffic adjusting policy;
set a network throughput level setting to a default network traffic rate in the computer network;
begin a data protection operation in the computer network at the network throughput level setting;
continually monitor the computer network for one of the plurality of conditions;
in response to a first condition from the plurality of conditions being detected, adjust the network throughput level setting to the first network throughput level, the second network throughput level, the third network throughout level, or the fourth network throughput level according to the first condition; and
perform the data protection operation using the adjusted network throughput level setting.