Patent ID: 6662227
Filing Date: 2003-12-09
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
A system for analyzing traffic data in a distributed computing environment, the distributed computing environment comprising a plurality of interconnected systems operatively coupled to a server, the server configured to exchange data packets with each interconnected system, comprising:a source of traffic data hits, each traffic data hit corresponding to a data packet exchanged between the server and one such interconnected system; one or more results tables categorized by an associated data type, each results table comprising a plurality of records; means for collecting each traffic data hit from the traffic data hits source as access information into one such record in at least one results table according to the data type associated with the one such results table, each of the records in the results table corresponding to a different type of access information for the data type associated with the results table; means for summarizing periodically the access information collected into the results tables during a time slice into analysis results, the time slice corresponding to a discrete reporting period; and means for analyzing the access information from the results tables in the analysis results to form analysis summaries according to the data types associated with the results tables.