An apparatus and method to distribute applications and services in and throughout a network and to secure the network includes the functionality of a switch with the ability to apply applications and services to received data according to respective subscriber profiles. Front-end processors, or Network Processor Modules (NPMs), receive and recognize data flows from subscribers, extract profile information for the respective subscribers, utilize flow scheduling techniques to forward the data to applications processors, or Flow Processor Modules (FPMs). The FPMs utilize resident applications to process data received from the NPMs. A Control Processor Module (CPM) facilitates applications processing and maintains connections to the NPMs, FPMs, local and remote storage devices, and a Management Server (MS) module that can monitor the health and maintenance of the various modules.

Processing data flows with a data flow processor

A system for condition monitoring and fault diagnosis includes a data collection function that acquires time histories of selected variables for one or more of the components, a pre-processing function that calculates specified characteristics of the time histories, an analysis function for evaluating the characteristics to produce one or more hypotheses of a condition of the one or more components, and a reasoning function for determining the condition of the one or more components from the one or more hypotheses.

Intelligent condition monitoring and fault diagnostic system for preventative maintenance

A system and method for capturing objects and balancing systems resources in a capture system are described. An object is captured, metadata associated with the objected generated, and the object and metadata stored.

Attributes of captured objects in a capture system

A file system can be provided in a capture system to efficiently read and write captured objects. In one embodiment, such a file system includes a plurality of queues to queue captured objects to be written to a disk, each queue being associated with one of a plurality of object types, and each queue containing captured objects of the type associated with each queue. A scheduler can be provided to select one of the plurality of queues, and a block manager to select a partition of a disk, the partition being associated with the object type of the captured objects in the selected queue. A disk controller configured to write contiguous blocks of data from the selected queue to the selected partition is connected to the block manager to enable writing to a disk.

File system for a capture system

A method is provided in one example and includes generating a query for a database for information stored in the database. The information relates to data discovered through a capture system. The method further includes generating an Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) element to represent information received from the query. A rule based on the OLAP element is generated and the rule affects data management for one or more documents that satisfy the rule. In more specific embodiments, the method further includes generating a capture rule that defines items the capture system should capture. The method also includes generating a discovery rule that defines objects the capture system should register. In still other embodiments, the method includes developing a policy based on the rule, where the policy identifies how one or more documents are permitted to traverse a network.

System and method for data mining and security policy management

Automated capturing and characterization of network traffic using feedback is described. A method may include capturing network traffic, compiling network traffic data based on the network traffic, analyzing the network traffic data, and automatically providing instructions based on the analyzing to control the capturing and the compiling. A system on which the method may execute may include one or more chassis or computing devices having one or more network cards. The chassis and/or the computing devices may be connected to one or more networks, and may be connected to one another. A system that implements the method may include collectors, characterization units, and a feedback controller.

Automated capturing and characterization of network traffic using feedback

Automated characterization of network traffic A method may include compiling and/or receiving network traffic data based on the network traffic, preparing a network traffic characterization based on the network traffic data, and generating outgoing network traffic scripts based on the network traffic characterization A method may also include capturing network traffic and generating test network traffic based on the scripts A system on which the method may be executed may include one or more chassis and/or computing devices, each having one or more network cards The chassis and/or computing devices may be connected to one or more networks and to one another The networks may include a production network and a test network A system may include a data collector, a characterization engine, and a script generator, and may also include a traffic generator

Automated characterization of network traffic

Automatische Charakterisierung von Netzwerkverkehr

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve problems that statistic analyzing and modeling functions are not combined with automatic script creation and traffic generation functions in a current network traffic analytic tool and a traffic generation system, and that running costs are increased by requiring the intervention of highly trained persons over a wide range in several network test systems SOLUTION: One method includes editing and/or receiving network traffic data on the basis of the network traffic, creating a network traffic characteristic description on the basis of the network traffic data, and creating an output network traffic script on the basis of the network traffic characteristic description One system for executing said method includes one or more chassis and/or computing elements each including one or more network cards COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI

Automatic characteristic description of network traffic

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an automatic description of network traffic characteristics. SOLUTION: A method may include compiling and/or receiving network traffic data based on network traffic, preparing an automatic description of network traffic characteristics based on the network traffic data, and preparing a plurality of output network traffic scripts based on the description of network traffic characteristics. A system on which the method is executed may include one or more chassis and/or computing devices, each having one or more network cards. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT

Diego Dugatkin

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Automated capturing and characterization of network traffic using feedback

Automated characterization of network traffic

Automatische Charakterisierung von Netzwerkverkehr

Automatic characteristic description of network traffic

Automatic description of network traffic characteristics