Methods and apparatus for discovering traffic on a network
US8176000B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | May 19, 2009 |
| Grant date | May 8, 2012 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Sep 19, 2030 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L69/22
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Discovering communication traffic in a computer network is useful to administrators of computer networks. Communication packets from a communication transaction on the network are read to determine a source computing device and to determine whether the communication transaction contains a data pattern match to one of a plurality of defined data patterns. If a match is made to an exact data pattern, the source computing device is associated with an application or service corresponding to that exact data pattern. If a match is made to a statistical data pattern, the source computing device is associated with an application or service corresponding to that statistical data pattern if a threshold number of data pattern matches have occurred for that statistical data pattern for the source computing device.
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