Patent ID: 11947507
Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 6:
7. A traffic monitoring method in a traffic monitoring apparatus that monitors traffic of a monitoring target network, the traffic monitoring method comprising:
aggregating, by a statistical information processor of the traffic monitoring apparatus, a plurality of pieces of statistical information to generate a statistical information file based on the plurality of pieces of statistical information, wherein the traffic monitoring apparatus includes a statistical information processor configured to acquire the statistical information per the specific flow of the traffic and a packet capture circuit configured to capture the packet of the specific flow, wherein the traffic monitoring apparatus comprises a memory; and
filtering, by the packet capture circuit of the traffic monitoring apparatus, the packet of the specific flow and generating a capture file based on the filtered packet, wherein the statistical information file is generated in the aggregating in accordance with first time information, the capture file is generated in the filtering in accordance with second time information, the first time information and the second time information are each supplied by an identical time source, and the statistical information processor, the packet capture circuit, and the identical time source are collectively disposed within a single device.