Identifying a polling communication pattern

A computer readable medium having instructions stored thereon that when executed by a processing resource implement a system comprising a cluster engine, a chain engine, a remove engine;

• and an identification engine, wherein:
• the cluster engine is configured to group the sequence of communication entities into a plurality of clusters according to a criterion;
• the chain engine is configured to divide each cluster into chains of sequential communication entities excluding communication entities having timing patterns not indicative of polling communications;
• the remove engine is configured to remove clusters from the plurality according to at least one a cluster size, a cluster duration;
• and a chain analysis;
• and
• the identification engine is configured to identify a remaining cluster as having a polling communication pattern.

A system for identifying a polling communication pattern, the system comprising a processing resource in communication with a computer readable medium, wherein the computer readable medium contains a set of instructions and wherein the processing unit is designed to carry out the set of instructions to:

• group the plurality of communication entities into a plurality of clusters according to a criterion;
• remove clusters from the plurality according to at least one of a time pattern analysis, a cluster size, and a cluster duration;
• and
• identify remaining clusters as having a polling communication pattern.