Patent ID: 8089875

Claim:
A network real-time monitoring and control system comprising: a memory that stores executable instruction sets that define: a real-time network monitor operative to: monitor a network traffic flow of a network node; monitor a network traffic indicator associated with the network node for the monitored traffic flow; and store a monitored network traffic indicator measurement in a monitored network traffic database, wherein the monitored traffic indicator measurement provides a measurement of the network traffic indicator for the network node; an event manager operative to: receive the monitored network traffic indicator measurement from the monitored traffic indicator measurement database; receive a monitored network traffic indicator threshold associated with the monitored network traffic indicator from a monitored network traffic indicator threshold database; generate a network performance measurement based on the monitored network traffic indicator measurement and a network performance equation; request a network performance threshold from a network performance threshold profile; compare the generated network performance measurement with the network performance threshold; compare the monitored network traffic indicator measurement with the retrieved monitored network traffic indicator threshold; and generate a network event identifier based on the comparison of the traffic indicator measurement with the retrieved monitored network traffic indicator threshold, and the comparison of the generated network performance measurement with the network performance threshold; a real-time status analyzer operative to: receive the network event identifier from the event manager; correlate the network event identifier with a network node status identifier; generate a request for a network traffic shaping control based on the correlation of the network event identifier with the network node status identifier; and a control manager operative to: receive the request for the network traffic shaping control from the real-time status analyzer; receive a calculated network traffic shaping control intensity for the network traffic shaping control, wherein the network traffic shaping control intensity specifies a network traffic intensity for the monitored network traffic flow of the network node; and output the network traffic shaping control, wherein the network traffic shaping control includes the calculated network traffic shaping control intensity; and a processor that executes the executable instruction sets.