Patent ID: 7941385
Filing Date: 2011-05-10
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for measuring, analyzing, and optimizing the delivery of content over a communications network having an information server communicatively coupled with a network appliance, the apparatus comprising: a network interface communicatively coupling the apparatus to the network; a packet detector configured to read a data packet from the network; a data analyzer configured to receive and combine a plurality of data packets into a datagram comprising content and additional information, combine a plurality of datagrams into an application message comprising content and additional information, identify an application related to the application message, and combine a plurality of application messages into a data object comprising a plurality of data elements; a root analyzer configured to determine the data object type and route the data object to a sub-analyzer; and a sub-analyzer configured to parse the data object into data elements and store the data elements in a data storage area.