Patent ID: 8406149

Claim:
A method of identifying potential internet service customers for a first service provider network, the method comprising: determining first internet traffic data for an internet entity corresponding to a first amount of internet traffic exchanged with the internet entity over the first service provider network based on deep packet inspection, wherein the internet traffic exchanged with the internet entity comprises packets destined to and transmitted from the internet entity; determining total internet traffic data for the internet entity corresponding to a total amount of internet traffic exchanged with the internet entity over a second service provider network that hosts the internet entity based on publically available internet traffic data; determining a volume metric for the internet entity based at least in part on the first internet traffic data and the total internet traffic data, wherein the volume metric represents how much of the total amount of internet traffic exchanged with the internet entity over the second service provider network is associated with the first service provider network; determining whether the volume metric meets a criterion; and displaying an identity of the internet entity if the volume metric meets the criterion.