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Ability to detect unlimited elephant flows

US10462060B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateFeb 14, 2018
Grant dateOct 29, 2019
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Expiry dateFeb 14, 2038

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L47/2483
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Packet flows received in a data network are assigned to respective entries of a database. During an accumulation interval byte counts of the assigned packet flows are accumulated in the respective database entries. The packet flows are classified as elephant flows when differences between the byte counts and a reference byte count exceed a threshold and are reported after expiration of the accumulation interval.

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