Patent ID: 8427950
Filing Date: 2013-04-23
Classification: H04L,H04M

Abstract:
1. A machine implemented method for identifying common factors associated with network threshold violations, the machine implemented method comprising: identifying one or more network components having a transmission rate exceeding a first threshold as overloaded network components; identifying at least one factor attributable to network activity for each of the overloaded network components; computing a scaled composite weight for the factor by computing a proportion of the network activity associated with the factor for each of the overloaded network components, and summing a proportion of network traffic in the overloaded network components associated with the factor; identifying the factor as a common factor if the scaled composite weight exceeds a second threshold value; storing the common factor in a machine readable storage medium; identifying at least two related common factors attributable to network activity; generating a first combination including the related common factors; determining whether a scaled composite weight for the first combination of the common factors exceeds a third threshold; and storing the first combination if the scaled composite weight for the first combination exceeds the third threshold.