Patent ID: 8873410

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 first communication line, the method comprising: (a) displaying at least one parameter defining a subset of the packets received from the first communication line, in a first portion of the display area, wherein the at least one parameter is displayed in at least one user input field and wherein the at least one parameter includes a maximum number of listings and the at least one user input field includes a maximum field for receiving the maximum number of listings; (b) displaying a table generated from the one or more packet properties or statistics corresponding to the defined subset of the packets, in a second portion of the display area, wherein displaying the table comprises displaying the table of the one or more packet properties or statistics including only the one or more packet properties or statistics corresponding to the defined subset of the packets within the maximum number of listings received in the maximum field; and (c) displaying a plot generated from the one or more packet properties or statistics corresponding to the defined subset of the packets, in a third 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.