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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 20, 2013
Applicants:
James Liao, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Lin Du, Beijing, CN;
David Liu, Livermore, CA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
PICA8, INC., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/167 (2006.01); G06F 15/173 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/17331 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method and apparatus are disclosed herein for retrieving network traffic data. In one embodiment, a networking apparatus comprises a memory; a network device; and a processing unit coupled to the network device and the memory. The processing unit is operable to execute a data engine that performs bulk data transfers from the network device periodically into a data buffer in the memory and translates data received from the network device, based on a mapping definition, into a user defined format for export to one or more applications running on networking apparatus.