Patent ID: 8705362
Filing Date: 2014-04-22
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: receiving, at a network captured traffic distribution device, a plurality of data content patterns of interest; receiving, at the network captured traffic distribution device, a traffic flow of captured data packets, the captured data packets being at least one of a copy and a representation of the data packets flowing through a communication network, wherein the captured data packets include a payload portion and are received via at least one of a mirror port resident on a source of the captured data packets and a traffic capture point located along a communication link between two communicating devices, and the network captured traffic distribution device includes a plurality of ingress and egress ports; scanning the payload portions of data packets included in the traffic flow to find a data packet including a data content pattern of interest; determining an egress port of the network captured traffic distribution device associated with a found data packet based upon the data content pattern of interest detected in the payload portion of the found data packet; and transmitting the found data packet to its assigned egress port of the network captured traffic distribution device.