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Date of Patent:
Apr. 19, 2011

Filed:

Jun. 28, 2004
Applicants:

Massimiliano Antonio Poletto, Cambridge, MA (US);

Andrew Ratin, Newton, MA (US);

Edward W. Kohler, Jr., Los Angeles, CA (US);

Inventors:

Massimiliano Antonio Poletto, Cambridge, MA (US);

Andrew Ratin, Newton, MA (US);

Edward W. Kohler, Jr., Los Angeles, CA (US);

Assignee:

Riverbed Technology, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A plurality of flow collector devices is disposed to collect flow information on a network. Duplicate flow records received from the flow collectors are eliminated by determining whether a pair of flow records has the same, source and destination flow identifiers and were received within a predefined time-period. Non-duplicated flow records received from the plurality of flow collector devices are stored and used to produces a connection table that maps each node on the network to a record that stores information about traffic to or from the node from non-duplicated flow records. The connection table stores statistical information of packets on the network based on a time-slice basis.


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