Patent Document ID: 20160380897
Application ID: 15263642
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A method for balancing network bandwidth in a network, the network including a plurality of virtual private network connections, comprising: analyzing at least one of weather data and social media sentiment for a plurality of geographical regions for factors that may influence network bandwidth usage of the plurality of virtual private network connections 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; 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, wherein the balancing the number of VPN connections 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.