Patent Document ID: 9515937
Application ID: 14496324
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for balancing network bandwidth in a network, the network providing a plurality of virtual private network connections, comprising: obtaining weather data and social media sentiment for a plurality of geographical regions; analyzing the weather data and the social media sentiment for factors that may influence network bandwidth usage of the plurality of virtual private network connections provided by the network in each of the plurality of geographical regions; predicting network bandwidth requirements of the plurality of virtual private network connections provided by the network for each of the plurality of geographical regions based on the analysis of the weather data and the social media sentiment; and balancing the network bandwidth of the network among the plurality of geographical regions based on the predicted network bandwidth requirements of the plurality of virtual private network connections provided by the network, wherein the balancing the number of VPN connections among the plurality of geographical regions based on the predicted network bandwidth requirements further comprises at least one of: assigning reserve VPN connections to at least one of the plurality of geographical regions based on the predicted network bandwidth requirements; and reallocating existing VPN connections among the plurality of geographical regions based on the predicted network bandwidth requirements, and wherein the predicting network bandwidth requirements for each of the plurality of geographical regions further comprises: assigning a weight to the weather data and the social media sentiment based on past network bandwidth usage; and assigning a score to the weighted weather data and the weighted social media sentiment based on past network bandwidth usage.