Patent ID: 8203954
Filing Date: 2012-06-19
Classification: G01V,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for dynamically applying a link utilization based policy to traffic traversing a plurality of links in a computer network, the method comprising: assigning a link utilization threshold to a first link of the plurality of links, the link utilization threshold embodied as a particular difference between a measure of link utilization of the first link and a measure of link utilization of one or more second links of the plurality of links; monitoring, by a processor, the link utilization of the first link and the one or more second links; monitoring, by the processor, bandwidth utilization of a plurality of prefixes reached over the first link; considering the first link to be out-of-policy (OOP) in the event that a difference between the measure of link utilization of the first link and the measure of link utilization of one or more second links surpasses the link utilization threshold; and in response to the link utilization threshold being surpassed,