Patent ID: 8185618

Claim:
A method for dynamically responding to non-network events, the method comprising: storing, at a network device, a plurality of pre-configured policies, where the network device is a router, a switch or a bridge configured to operate within a computer network, and each pre-configured policy specifies one or more actions to be taken in response to a corresponding non-network event; detecting a notification of at least one non-network event at the network device; and dynamically responding to the non-network event at the network device by: identifying the pre-configured policy that matches the non-network event that was detected, and performing the one or more actions specified by the identified pre-configured policy, where the one or more actions include modifying at least one network configuration parameter of the computer network to reclassify network traffic received at the network device, change a Quality of Service (QoS) of the network traffic received at the network device, or change a priority of the network traffic received at the network device.