Patent ID: 8102782

Claim:
A method of displaying one or more packet properties or statistics on a display device having a display area, the one or more packet properties or statistics corresponding to packets received from a communication line during an interval of time, the method comprising: (a) identifying a plurality of subsets of the received packets; (b) displaying a table in a first portion of the display area, the table listing a plurality of subset selectors each corresponding to one of the plurality of subsets, and the table listing the one or more packet properties or statistics corresponding to each of the plurality of subsets; (c) displaying a plot of the one or more packet properties or statistics corresponding to the received packets over the time interval in a second portion of the display area, the plot having two axes, the packet properties or statistics being represented on one axis of the plot, and time represented on the other axis of the plot; (d) receiving user selection of one of the plurality of subset selectors; (e) identifying a plurality of further subsets of the received packets corresponding to the selected subset selector; and (f) displaying a table listing an identifier and the one or more packet properties or statistics corresponding to each further subset.