US 2016/0080233 A1 · Methods and Computer Program Products for Transaction Analysis of Network Traffic in a Network Device

Abstract

Provided are methods and computer program products for analyzing and tracing the contents of network traffic in a network device and to help identify network performance issues. Methods for analyzing traffic include identifying thread identifiers associated with transactions, determining related events, and associating similar transactions and events into an aggregated list of transactions. Methods of tracing transactions include identifying thread identifiers associated with transactions and related events and serializing events into a serialized list of events to facilitate tracing single transactions.

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Dependent claims

A method of analyzing network traffic comprising:

identifying a thread identifier associated with a transaction;
identifying one or more events related to the thread identifier;
determining a type of the transaction to be a first type of transaction;
comparing the first type of transaction with respective types of transactions among entries in an aggregated list of transactions;
and
associating the transaction and the one or more events related to the thread identifier associated with the transaction with an entry in the aggregated list of transactions based on a match between the first type of transaction and a respective one of the types of transactions associated with the entry in the aggregated list of transactions.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

14/949,367Filed 23 Nov 2015

Priority

15 Mar 2013

Published

17 Mar 2016

Term ends

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Classification8 codes

H04L 43/0876
Monitoring or testing based on specific metrics, e.g. QoS, energy consumption or environmental parameters: network utilisation, e.g. volume of…
H04L 41/069
Management of faults, events, alarms or notifications: using logs of notifications; Post-processing of notifications
H04L 43/028
Capturing of monitoring data: by filtering
H04L 43/062
Generation of reports: related to network traffic

Methods and Computer Program Products for Transaction Analysis of Network Traffic in a Network Device

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Methods and Computer Program Products for Transaction Analysis of Network Traffic in a Network Device

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