Patent ID: 11924097
Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 1:
2. The traffic monitoring device according to claim 1, further comprising:
a packet receiving unit, including one or more processors, configured to receive a packet and extract the metadata and the flow information from the received packet;
a flow data recording unit, including one or more processors, configured to search for the recording area in the memory based on the flow information, and record the metadata and the flow information in the recording area searched for;
a flow data output unit, including one or more processors, configured to output the metadata and the flow information recorded in the memory to outside, and initialize the metadata and the flow information recorded in the memory;
a traffic feature value calculation unit, including one or more processors, configured to forecast a future traffic state using information retrievable from the packet received by the packet receiving unit; and
a flow data layout method determination unit, including one or more processors, configured to set the recording area in the memory based on the traffic state forecasted by the traffic feature value calculation unit,
wherein the flow data recording unit is configured to search for the recording area in the memory based on the flow information in accordance with the setting by the flow data layout method determination unit, and
the flow data output unit is configured to read the metadata and the flow information recorded in the memory in accordance with the setting by the flow data layout method determination unit.