- Patent Title: Augmenting flow data for improved network monitoring and management
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Application No.: US15173210Application Date: 2016-06-03
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Publication No.: US10177998B2Publication Date: 2019-01-08
- Inventor: Ali Parandehgheibi , Mohammadreza Alizadeh Attar , Omid Madani , Vimalkumar Jeyakumar , Ellen Christine Scheib , Navindra Yadav
- Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA San Jose
- Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
- Current Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Jose
- Agency: Polsinelli PC
- Main IPC: H04L12/26
- IPC: H04L12/26 ; H04L29/06 ; G06F9/455 ; G06F17/30 ; H04L12/851 ; H04L12/24 ; H04W84/18 ; H04L29/08 ; G06N99/00 ; G06F21/53 ; H04L12/723 ; G06F3/0484 ; H04L1/24 ; H04W72/08 ; H04L9/08 ; H04L9/32 ; H04J3/06 ; H04J3/14 ; H04L29/12 ; H04L12/813 ; H04L12/823 ; H04L12/801 ; H04L12/741 ; H04L12/833 ; H04L12/721 ; G06F3/0482 ; G06T11/20 ; H04L12/841 ; H04L12/725 ; H04L12/715 ; G06F21/55 ; G06F21/56

Abstract:
Flow data can be augmented with features or attributes from other domains, such as attributes from a source host and/or destination host of a flow, a process initiating the flow, and/or a process owner or user. A network can be configured to capture network or packet header attributes of a first flow and determine additional attributes of the first flow using a sensor network. The sensor network can include sensors for networking devices (e.g., routers, switches, network appliances), physical servers, hypervisors or container engines, and virtual partitions (e.g., virtual machines or containers). The network can calculate a feature vector including the packet header attributes and additional attributes to represent the first flow. The network can compare the feature vector of the first flow to respective feature vectors of other flows to determine an applicable policy, and enforce that policy for subsequent flows.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160359740A1 AUGMENTING FLOW DATA FOR IMPROVED NETWORK MONITORING AND MANAGEMENT Public/Granted day:2016-12-08
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