Patent ID: 7953839

Claim:
A method to analyze traffic to network resources, the method comprising: obtaining first measurement data for a monitored resource; obtaining second measurement data for the monitored network resource; obtaining third measurement data for an unmonitored network resource; scaling the second measurement data based on a first weighting factor corresponding to a population to determine an estimate of a total number of accesses of the monitored network resource; dividing the estimate of the total number of accesses of the monitored network resource by a number of accesses determined from the first measurement data to determine an error rate; scaling the third measurement data based on a second weighting factor corresponding to the population to determine an estimate of the total number of accesses of the unmonitored resource; and multiplying the estimate of the total number of accesses of the unmonitored resource by the error rate to determine the total number of accesses of the unmonitored resource.