MODEL-BASED METHOD FOR MANAGING INFORMATION DERIVED FROM NETWORK TRAFFIC

摘要

A network intelligence solution (NIS) is arranged to access a stream of IP (Internet Protocol) packets associated with communications over a network between a network access device and a server. The NIS performs deep packet inspection (DPI) to extract a volume of information from the accessed stream that conforms to at least one discrimination criteria and further utilizes an evaluation model that applies rules to filter the volume of information to distinguish user-initiated traffic flowing across the network from non-user-initiated traffic. The filtered results are written to a database and may be analyzed to determine network usage and/or other network characteristics.