Patent Document ID: 10069683
Application ID: 15024446
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. An apparatus for optimising a configuration of a network device in a system comprising at least one network device configured to handle one or more traffic flows, the apparatus comprising: an observation module to monitor said traffic flows and generate traffic statistics relating to said monitored traffic flows; a supervisor to receive the traffic statistics from the observation module, determine from the traffic statistics a flow characteristic function for each traffic flow relative to each of said other monitored traffic flows and use at least one determined flow characteristic function in at least one adaptation algorithm to determine a value of a configuration parameter indicating an allocation of resources of the network device to process a first traffic flow of said monitored traffic flows, and a dynamic reconfiguration tool to adjust a current configuration of the network device in accordance with the determined value of the configuration parameter and re-assign resources of the network device according to the indicated allocation to process the first traffic flow.