Patent ID: 9031083
Filing Date: 2015-05-12
Classification: H04B,H04H,H04L

Abstract:
1. A communication management method comprising: measuring, for each of clients, a traffic pattern representing a pattern of temporal changes in an amount of communication traffic regarding the client; assigning, to each of a plurality of communication channels, one or more clients that use the communication channel, on the basis of the traffic patterns of the clients measured in the measuring; and performing control of selecting, as a communication channel with which distribution data is to be distributed to one or more of the clients, at least one of the plurality of communication channels to which the assigning has assigned the clients, wherein the assigning determines, for each of the plurality of communication channels, the one or more clients to be assigned to the communication channel so that a total pattern as a sum of the traffic patterns of the one or more clients to be assigned to the communication channel is within a communication-path capacity of the communication channel, wherein the performing control of selecting includes performing switch control in which, if a total amount at a certain time point of distribution data to be distributed to clients assigned to at least one of the plurality of communication channels exceeds the communication-path capacity of the communication channel, an excess portion of the distribution data is deleted from the communication channel, and a distribution path for the excess portion is switched to another one or more of the plurality of communication channels having an available communication-path capacity at the certain time point, and wherein the performing switch control further comprises selecting, as the another one or more of the plurality of communication channels having an available communication-path capacity, a communication channel whose communication-path capacity is larger than an amount of communication traffic at the certain time point indicated by a total pattern as a sum of the traffic patterns of the clients assigned to the communication channel, among the plurality of communication channels.