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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 06, 2007
Filed:
Dec. 07, 2001
John Sandoval, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Virendra Patel, Fremont, CA (US);
Frederic Mathieu, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jayakumar Jayakumar, San Jose, CA (US);
Rohit Sharma, Milpitas, CA (US);
John Sandoval, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Virendra Patel, Fremont, CA (US);
Frederic Mathieu, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jayakumar Jayakumar, San Jose, CA (US);
Rohit Sharma, Milpitas, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A statistics data collection mechanism for distributed, high-speed data processing environments is described. According to one embodiment, an update message containing statistics data related to a data packet carried along a virtual connection is assembled and the update message is then transmitted to a statistics collection engine for further processing. According to another embodiment, the update message is received from one or more processing devices, and multiple counters are then updated to store the statistics data.