Patent ID: 9716638
Date: 2017-07-25
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. Apparatus including a network monitoring device coupleable to a computer network, said computer network coupleable to at least one first type of device sending network data on their own behest, and at one second type of device sending network status data upon the request of said network monitoring device; said network monitoring device including a buffer of said network status data, being divided into a plurality of clock ticks, each clock representing status data from a discernable past time; wherein when said network monitoring device divides said network status data among said plurality of clock ticks, said network monitoring device spreads said network status data items among said multiple clock ticks in a substantially uniform distribution; when said network monitoring device maintains status data from said network at least temporarily in said buffer, at a location associated with said discernable past time; and when said discernable past time exceeds a selected threshold, said network monitoring device throttling back the amount of said status data from a selected discernable past time associated with said selected threshold.