Patent ID: 9225646
Filing Date: 2015-12-29
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A computer implemented method for improving network performance comprising: gathering, via a connection admission control engine, network performance information, in real-time, regarding data flow communicated with a client of a network over a plurality of connections, wherein each of the plurality of connections includes one or more network segments and one or more network elements, each of the one or more network segments and one or more network elements respectively associated with a set of connection admission control engines including the connection admission control engine; extracting, via the connection admission control engine, network performance information from performance information packets, the performance information packets including network performance information regarding each of the one or more network segments and each of the one or more network elements of the plurality of connections; determining, via the connection admission control engine, whether a performance threshold is met by each of the one or more network segments and each of the one or more network elements based on the network performance information; identifying, via the connection admission control engine, and in response to determining that the performance threshold has not been met, at least one of a particular network segment or particular network element for which the performance threshold is not met based on the performance information packets; and balancing, via the connection admission control engine, the data flow over the plurality of connections, in response to determining that the performance threshold is not met, wherein the connection admission control engine modifies a policy of a second connection admission control engine of the set of connection admission control engines associated with the identified particular network segment or particular network element.