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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 16, 2010
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2006
Carl Brian Rexroad, Oak Ridge, NJ (US);
Duncan Sparrell, Chester, NJ (US);
Carl Brian Rexroad, Oak Ridge, NJ (US);
Duncan Sparrell, Chester, NJ (US);
AT&T Corp., New York, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for providing network traffic composite graphs for packet networks are disclosed. The graph enables analysts to visually determine the relative size of an event in relation to other traffic activity. For example, a user or a network analyst creates categories of applications for the river-chart graph and optionally enters a weight factor for each of the application categories. The method then gathers records for flows, number of bytes (or packets), etc. from monitoring device(s) in a predetermined interval. The expected values are determined and composite volumes are calculated for each protocol and/or port. The method then updates the cumulative river-chart bands and the cumulative expected values for historical and predicted time periods in the river-chart graph.