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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 06, 2004
Filed:
Aug. 17, 2000
Ronald Brown, Dunfermline, GB;
Jonathan G G Tams, Edinburgh, GB;
Peter I Oliver, Falkirk, GB;
Iain Hogg, Edinburgh, GB;
3Com Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Apparatus and method for use in a network of, for example, computers, for generating summary data, such as traffic summary information, from a plurality of data records, the data records having a different temporal basis, for example, one hour or one day or one week, and different start and end times. The summary data is generated for a requested time interval having a requested start time and a requested end time by selecting a data record with a record start time corresponding to the requested start and an end time as far as possible from the record start time but equal to or before the requested end time. The data from that selected data record is processed, and the initial time is then set to the end time of that particular data record and the process repeated. In this way one can gather and process such data with a minimum number of steps.