COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK MONITORING SYSTEM, METHOD & APPARATUS

摘要

A system and method for monitoring a user of a communication network (14), comprises at least one monitoring apparatus (2) in communication with the communications network and a user device (12) coupled to the communications network, the at least one user device requiring entry of at least one authentication code to permit communication via the communications network. A repacking module (22) is coupled to be in communication with the at least one monitoring apparatus and a storage server (24) is in communication with the repacking module. The at least one monitoring apparatus reads headers of all packets of data transmitted to and/or from the at least one user device without affecting the transmission of the packets of data, analyses at least one component of the packets of data to determine one or more patterns between the different packets of data and determines users to be monitored from the patterns.