Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.P.

Xavier Brunet

N Lee Rhodes

A network usage management system comprises at least one collector adapted to collect network usage data associated with a data source using a network, the at least one collector adapted to generate log data associated with the at least one collector. The network usage management system also comprises at least one log collector adapted to retrieve the log data from the at least one collector.

Network usage management system and method

A database indexing and rolling storage method for normalized event data. Indexing of the normalized event database meets the goals of a manageable storage database and fast accessibility. A log reference step is not required to locate information in the database because the indexing of the invention utilizes the time-stamp information in assigning the location for storage. There accordingly is no need for a separate look-up to associate a time stamped set of information, i.e., a table in a normalized event data database, because the indexing provides an unambiguous reference to a reusable storage location. Because the time-stamped indexing permits re-use of preplanned storage locations, the historical limits of the normalized event data may easily roll over. In other words, elimination of an oldest time period table of data while updating a new table of data is easily accounted for in the indexed database and storage method of the invention.

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Grenoble, France

Xavier Brunet