Patent Document ID: 5446874
Application ID: 08173530
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. In a system for analyzing, managing and controlling the output of a data communications network which communicates using a stream of data having characteristic patterns, a method for outputting control signals which are customized by classes of traffic on the network, comprising: storing a first criteria of rules in an expert system in said system to compare information derived from an event vector for a first class of traffic in said network with a standard for said first class of traffic in said network; said event vector comprising multiple statistical patterns of traffic classes; storing in a benchmark manager in said system a first benchmark data set as said standard for said first class of traffic, said first benchmark data set being derived from previously monitored events of said first class of traffic in said network; inputting to said system an event vector from an Event Driven Interface coupled to a data communications network, in response to an event of said first class of traffic in said network; accessing said first criteria of rules and comparing information derived from said event vector with said standard, using said first criteria of rules; outputting from said expert system in in said system, an inference signal in response to said comparison, which characterizes said event; archiving information derived from said event vector in a second benchmark data set in said system, for subsequent use as said standard; outputting control signals from a monitor to said network in response to said inference signal to manage and control said first class of traffic.