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

Claim 6:
7. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by a computing device, cause the computing device to perform operations, the operations 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 component failure, a backup failure, a deviation in capacity or performance, a business event, and an elevated security level, wherein the memory associates the component failure with a first network throughput level, the backup failure with a second network throughput level, the deviation in capacity or performance with a third network throughput level, the business event with a fourth network throughput level, and the elevated security level with a fifth network throughput level;
wherein associating, in the memory, 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;
in response to a first condition from the plurality of conditions being detected, 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, or the fifth network throughput level according to the first condition; and
perform the data protection operation using the adjusted network throughput level setting.