Patent Document ID: 9660879
Application ID: 15219016
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for monitoring flows of packets over a network, wherein one or more processors in a network computer execute instructions to perform actions, comprising: employing a network monitoring computer (NMC) in a plurality of NMCs, that is provided a new network flow, to perform further actions, including: buffering network traffic information associated with the new network flow in a non-transitory processor readable media; registering the new network flow with the plurality of NMCs, wherein registration provides an identifier that corresponds to one or more of the plurality of NMCs and provides an indication that the one or more NMCs that correspond to the identifier have registered an interest in one or more network flows that are related to the new network flow; forwarding network traffic information that is associated with the one or more related network flows to the one or more NMCs that correspond to the identifier; employing the identifier, which corresponds to the NMC that was provided the new network flow, to process network traffic associated with the new network flow using the NMC that was provided the new network flow; and employing the identifier, which corresponds to another NMC, to forward the buffered network traffic information to the other NMC.