Patent ID: 8688982
Filing Date: 2014-04-01
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: establishing a network tap point near, in a network topology sense, an intranet/internet access point device, wherein the network tap point provides a substantially non-intrusive means of viewing network communication through the intranet/internet access point; monitoring, by at least one processor, at least partially encrypted network communication between a client computing device that is within the intranet and server computing device that is within the internet using the network tap point, the monitoring including receiving a first portion of the monitored network communication that is between the client computing device and the intranet/internet access point and receiving a second portion of the network communication between the intranet/internet access point device and the server computing device; decrypting, by the at least one processor, the first portion of the monitored network communication by employing a private encryption key of the intranet/internet access point device; and analyzing, by the at least one processor, the monitored at least partially encrypted network communication to generate at least one set of metrics regarding the performance of the network communication between the client computing device and server computing device, wherein the analyzing includes correlating network communications of the first decrypted portion of the monitored network communication with respective network communications of the second portion of the monitored network communication.