Patent ID: 8195794

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for deinflating traffic data in a distributed computing environment, the method comprising: analyzing traffic data from one or more sources; storing access information derived from the traffic data in one or more results tables associated with a first time slice; at the end of the first time slice, summarizing the one or more results tables into a first container file; storing the first container file in analysis results for the first time slice; storing a number of open user sessions remaining at the end of the first time slice in the analysis results; storing access information derived from the traffic data in one or more results tables associated with a second time slice; at the end of the second time slice, summarizing the one or more results tables into a second container file; storing the second container file in analysis results for the second time slice; and adjusting the analysis results for the second time slice according to the number of open user sessions remaining at the end of the first time slice, wherein adjusting the analysis results comprises deducting the number of open sessions remaining at the end of the first time slice from the analysis results for the second time slice.