Patent ID: 11894994
Assignee: REDFIG CONSULTING PTY LTD
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 10:
11. A network traffic device comprising:
at least one network device operating exclusively in a data plane, said at least one network device adapted to:
receive network data packets, each network data packet comprising a packet header and a packet payload;
filter said network data packets according to predefined criteria, said filtering comprising inspection of at least a portion of the payload of the received network data packets and identifying at least one identifying packet in which the inspected portion of the respective packet payload satisfies the predefined criteria, and wherein received network data packets not satisfying the predefined criteria are identified as non-identifying packets;
sample said non-identifying packets to select at least one sample packet according to a sampling rule;
transfer the at least one identifying packet and the at least one sample packet to at least one analyser;
and
at least one analyser, adapted to perform deep packet inspection on received packets, said received packets comprising the said at least one identifying packet and said at least one sample packet.