Patent ID: 7315894

Claim:
A network traffic reporting system, comprising: a first processor; a hierarchical network traffic data repository interface, said interface providing electronic communication between said first processor and a hierarchical network traffic data repository, the repository containing index information by which the network traffic data contained in said repository indexed by at least one indexable item; first memory having stored thereon first computer instructions, said first memory being readable by said first processor, said first computer instructions being executable by said first processor to achieve the functions of: (i) identifying a filter request having a filter specification, the filter specification having at least one filter criterion referencing an indexable item, (ii) reading the index information of a hierarchical network traffic data repository by said interface, and (iii) a first filtering of network traffic data, said first filtering identifying a first set of network traffic data of said data repository passing at least one of the filter criteria referencing an indexable item.