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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 27, 2018
Filed:
Nov. 18, 2016
Palo Alto Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Sidong Li, Saratoga, CA (US);
William A. Roberson, Scotts Valley, CA (US);
Savitha Raghunath, Cupertino, CA (US);
Subramani Ganesh, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Gyanesh Saharia, Cupertino, CA (US);
Palo Alto Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A network security device includes a network flow statistics processing engine to process network flow information related to network flows. The network flow statistics processing engine includes a first processing stage performing per-flow information aggregation and a second processing stage performing per-destination system component information aggregation, with each processing stage implementing a threshold-based data export scheme and a timer-based data export scheme. In this manner, up-to-date flow information is available to peer system components regardless of the varying flow rates of the network flow.