SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONDITIONAL ANALYSIS OF NETWORK TRAFFIC

摘要

Embodiments that are described herein provide improved methods and systems for analyzing network traffic. The disclosed embodiments enable an analytics system to perform complex processing to only new, first occurrences of received content, while refraining from processing duplicate instances of that content. In a typical embodiment, the analytics results regarding the first occurring content are reported and cached in association with the content. For any duplicate instance of the content, the analytics results are retrieved from the cache without re-processing of the duplicate content. When using the disclosed techniques, the system still processes all first occurring content but not duplicate instances of content that was previously received and processed. In the embodiments described herein, input data comprises communication packets exchanged in a communication network.

主权项

1. A method, comprising:
receiving network traffic that carries content items for processing by an analytics system; extracting a content item from the network traffic; finding whether the content item is a duplicate of previous content that was already processed by the analytics system and cached; when the content item is found to duplicate the previous content, retrieving and outputting a cached analytics outcome of the content item; and when the content item is found not to duplicate any previous content, causing the analytics system to produce the analytics outcome for the content item, and caching the analytics outcome.