Patent ID: 9515937
Filing Date: 2016-12-06
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method for balancing network bandwidth in a network, the network providing a plurality of virtual private network connections, comprising: obtaining weather data and social media sentiment for a plurality of geographical regions; analyzing the weather data and the social media sentiment for factors that may influence network bandwidth usage of the plurality of virtual private network connections provided by the network in each of the plurality of geographical regions; predicting network bandwidth requirements of the plurality of virtual private network connections provided by the network for each of the plurality of geographical regions based on the analysis of the weather data and the social media sentiment; and balancing the network bandwidth of the network among the plurality of geographical regions based on the predicted network bandwidth requirements of the plurality of virtual private network connections provided by the network, wherein the balancing the number of VPN connections among the plurality of geographical regions based on the predicted network bandwidth requirements further comprises at least one of: and wherein the predicting network bandwidth requirements for each of the plurality of geographical regions further comprises: