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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 21, 2012
Filed:
May. 28, 2009
Manoj Srivastava, Ellicott City, MD (US);
Michael D. Taldo, Eldersburg, MD (US);
Manoj Srivastava, Ellicott City, MD (US);
Michael D. Taldo, Eldersburg, MD (US);
CA, Inc., Islandia, NY (US);
Abstract
In accordance with one embodiment of the present disclosure, a system for caching network traffic includes an interface configured to receive traffic from a plurality of nodes communicating in a network, a processor coupled to the interface and configured to identify each of the plurality of nodes communicating in the network, and a database. The database includes a node object dimension table that includes an entry for each identified node. Each entry in the node object dimension table includes a node identification and an address for locating the node in the network. The database also includes a communication fact table that includes an entry for each communication in the network. Each entry in the communication fact table includes a source node identification that includes the node identification for the source node, a communication identification, and a destination node identification that includes the node identification for the destination node.