Techniques for dynamic network management

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12028216-B2
Application number	US-202318124878-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 22, 2023
Priority date	May 10, 2019
Publication date	Jul 2, 2024
Grant date	Jul 2, 2024

Abstract

Various embodiments are generally directed to techniques for dynamic network management, such as by monitoring and analyzing network parameters, such as network traffic and network configurations, to enable visualization of network state and improved situational awareness. Some embodiments are particularly directed to providing a graphical user interface (GUI) that utilizes various network parameters to map, characterize, and/or assign attributes to network traffic and resources. In many embodiments, network traffic may be monitored and/or routed based on their attributes.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method comprising:
detecting a configuration of a plurality of regions in a set of networked resources utilized to deploy one or more applications;
monitoring a flow of traffic through one or more networked resources in the set of networked resources;
determining policies and routing for each of the one or more applications; and
routing traffic through the one or more networked resources for a particular application of the one or more applications based on a policy for the particular application.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more networked resources comprise one or more physical resources, one or more cloud resources, or any combination thereof.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein each of the one or more physical resources include physical hardware that is directly controlled, employed, and/or owned by an entity that is providing one or more applications.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the policy is a routing policy defining an amount of the traffic to route to a first region of the one or more networked resources.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein the routing policy further defines that a second amount of the traffic is routed to a second region of the one or more networked resources.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the policy routes the traffic through the one or more networked resources based on a traffic type.

7. The method of claim 1 , comprising:
generating a graphical user interface (GUI) with one or more views to visualize a network state, a component state, and/or a traffic flow of the one or more networked resources; and
causing presentation of the GUI on a display device.

8. The method of claim 1 , comprising:
generating a graphical user interface (GUI), the GUI to include a first view with a traffic summary comprising the traffic grouped by traffic type and a set of attributes assigned to the traffic; and
causing displaying of the GUI on a display device.

9. The method of claim 8 , wherein the traffic grouped by the traffic type is further grouped by each of the one or more applications and parameters for each of the one or more applications.

10. The method of claim 8 , wherein the traffic grouped by the traffic type is further grouped by each of the one or more applications, and data regarding the policy and the routing is provided for each of the one or more applications in the GUI.

11. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, the computer-readable storage medium including instructions that when executed by a computer, cause the computer to:
detect a configuration of a plurality of regions in a set of networked resources utilized to deploy one or more applications;
monitor a flow of traffic through one or more networked resources in the set of networked resources;
determine policies and routing for each of the one or more applications; and
rout traffic through the one or more networked resources for a particular application of the one or more applications based on a policy for the particular application.

12. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 11 , wherein the one or more networked resources comprise one or more physical resources, one or more cloud resources, or any combination thereof.

13. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 12 , wherein each of the one or more physical resources include physical hardware that is directly controlled, employed, and/or owned by an entity that is providing one or more applications.

14. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 11 , wherein the policy is a routing policy define an amount of the traffic to route to a first region of the one or more networked resources.

15. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 14 , wherein the routing policy further defines that a second amount of the traffic is routed to a second region of the one or more networked resources.

16. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 11 , wherein the policy routes the traffic through the one or more networked resources based on a traffic type.

17. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 11 , comprising:
generate a graphical user interface (GUI) with one or more views to visualize a network state, a component state, and/or a traffic flow of the one or more networked resources; and
cause presentation of the GUI on a display device.

18. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 11 , comprising:
generate a graphical user interface (GUI), the GUI to include a first view with a traffic summary comprising the traffic grouped by traffic type and a set of attributes assigned to the traffic; and
cause displaying of the GUI on a display device.

19. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 18 , wherein the traffic grouped by the traffic type is further grouped by each of the one or more applications and parameters for each of the one or more applications.

20. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 18 , wherein the traffic grouped by the traffic type is further grouped by each of the one or more applications, and data regard the policy and the routing is provided for each of the one or more applications in the GUI.

Assignees

• Capital One Services Llc

Inventors

• Pinos Bryan
• Moczydlowski Christopher
• Lourdusamy John Anand
• Barnum Eric

Classifications

• H04L41/0896

  Bandwidth or capacity management, i.e. automatically increasing or decreasing capacities (flow or congestion control using dynamic resource allocation, e.g. in-call renegotiation, H04L47/76) · CPC title

• H04L41/0893 Primary

  Assignment of logical groups to network elements · CPC title

• H04L67/10

  in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network (software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46) · CPC title

• H04L41/0894

  Policy-based network configuration management · CPC title

• H04L43/04 Primary

  Processing captured monitoring data, e.g. for logfile generation · CPC title