US 12,074,763 B2
Device descriptor file management with predictive capability
Jonathan Roscoe, London (GB); and Fadi Ali El-Moussa, London (GB)
Assigned to British Telecommunications Public Limited Company, (GB)
Filed by BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY, London (GB)
Filed on May 1, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/309,935.
Claims priority of application No. 22170757 (EP), filed on Apr. 29, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0353452 A1, Nov. 2, 2023
Int. Cl. H04L 41/082 (2022.01); G06F 8/65 (2018.01); H04L 67/00 (2022.01); H04L 67/12 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 41/082 (2013.01) [G06F 8/65 (2013.01); H04L 67/12 (2013.01); H04L 67/34 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of managing a network of connected network devices comprising:
detecting that a device descriptor file for a first network device has been updated and stored in a data store managed by a peer-to-peer network of computing systems;
analyzing the updated device descriptor file stored in the data store;
analyzing historical information stored in the data store regarding other device descriptor file updates related to the first network device or related to other network devices;
performing predictive analytics processing on results of the analyzing of the updated device descriptor file and the analyzing of the historical information and generating a result, wherein performing the predictive analytics processing includes using a machine learning decision tree algorithm to analyze a plurality of potential results based on the analyzing of the updated descriptor file and the analyzing of the historical information and to select one of the plurality of potential results, and wherein performing the predictive analytics processing predicts an impact of the updated device descriptor file on the network of connected network devices and uses the predicted impact of the updated device descriptor file on the network of connected network devices to determine a configuration update to the network of connected network devices;
storing the result of the predictive analytics processing in the data store; and
implementing the configuration update to the network of connected network devices.