Patent ID: 9344440
Filing Date: 2016-05-17
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: determining, via a node in a communication network, a data rate capacity of one or more nodes of a communication network; creating, via the node, a single managed object grouping for each node of the one or more nodes having a same data rate capacity; establishing one or more static thresholds for the single managed object grouping based on the data rate capacity, wherein the static thresholds are independent of a baseline condition of detected data rates at each node of the single managed object grouping; detecting a current rate of received data at each node of the single managed grouping; triggering at least one alert for each node of the single managed grouping when the current rate of the received data at a particular node exceeds the one or more static thresholds; determining a time period the current rate of the received data at each node of the single managed grouping exceeds the one or more static thresholds; assigning a severity to the at least one alert based on the determined time period, when the at least one alert is triggered; and adjusting the one or more static thresholds after the at least one alert is triggered; comparing the current rate of the received data at each node of the single managed grouping to at least one of the one or more static thresholds to yield a difference rate; assigning a severity to the at least one alert based on the difference rate when the at least one alert is triggered.