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

Claim 0:
1. A traffic monitoring apparatus configured to monitor traffic of a monitoring target network, the traffic monitoring apparatus comprising:
a memory;
a statistical information processor configured to acquire statistical information per specific flow of the traffic, wherein the statistical information processor includes:
a statistical information aggregation circuit configured to aggregate a plurality of pieces of the statistical information; and
a statistical information file generation circuit configured to generate a statistical information file based on the plurality of pieces of the statistical information aggregated by the statistical information aggregation circuit; and

a packet capture circuit configured to capture a packet of the specific flow, wherein the packet capture circuit includes:
a filter configured to filter the packet of the specific flow; and
a capture file generation circuit configured to generate a capture file using the filtered packet, and

wherein the statistical information file generation circuit is configured to generate the statistical information file in accordance with first time information, the capture file generation circuit is configured to generate the capture file 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.