Patent ID: 8959571
Filing Date: 2015-02-17
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of automated policy building, the method comprising: receiving, by a network traffic management device, network traffic, the received network traffic comprising network traffic from one or more applications; collecting, by the network traffic management device, statistical data based on the received network traffic; analyzing, by the network traffic management device, the collected statistical data based on the received network traffic, the analysis comprising learning network traffic usage by the one or more applications; determining, by the network traffic management device, when the analyzed collected statistical data based on the received network traffic meets one or more threshold conditions for an existing policy; modifying, by the network traffic management device, the existing policy to be applied to the received network traffic upon determining that the one or more threshold conditions for the received network traffic have been met, wherein the modification of the existing policy is based at least in part on the analysis of the network traffic usage by the one or more applications.