Efficient network bandwidth utilization in a distributed processing system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9450839-B2
Application number	US-201213673428-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 9, 2012
Priority date	Nov 9, 2012
Publication date	Sep 20, 2016
Grant date	Sep 20, 2016

Abstract

Methods, apparatuses, and computer program product for of efficient network bandwidth utilization in a distributed processing system are provided. Embodiments include monitoring, by a network monitor, network usage of a distributed processing system containing a plurality of endpoint devices; creating, by the network monitor, a historical network usage pattern based on the monitoring of the network usage; based on the historical network usage pattern, identifying, by the network monitor, a first set of future time periods predicted to correspond with low network usage; and selecting from the first set of future time periods, by the network monitor, a particular time period to perform a network administrative task on an endpoint device in the distributed processing system.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An apparatus comprising a computer processor, a computer memory operatively coupled to the computer processor, the computer memory having disposed within it computer program instructions that, when executed by the computer processor, cause the apparatus to carry out the steps of:
tracking bandwidth utilization on a network;
based on tracked bandwidth utilization, identifying a first set of future time periods during which future bandwidth utilization of sa…

Assignees

• Lenovo Entpr Solutions Singapore Pte Ltd

Inventors

• Patel Keyur
• Ramalingam Sathyakumar A
• Vrabel Robert A

Classifications

• H04L41/147

  Electricity · mapped topic

• G06F11/3055

  Physics · mapped topic

• H04L43/0876

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L43/04 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic