Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Discovery of middleboxes using traffic flow stitching
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Application No.: US16011427Application Date: 2018-06-18
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Publication No.: US10798015B2Publication Date: 2020-10-06
- Inventor: Supreeth Rao , Navindra Yadav , Umamaheswaran Arumugam , Michael Watts , Shashi Gandham , Duy Nguyen , Hai Vu , Prasannakumar Jobigenahally Malleshaiah , Aiyesha Ma , Kai Zhu , Darshan Shrinath Purandare , Jothi Prakash Prabakaran
- 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: H04L12/891
- IPC: H04L12/891 ; H04L29/08 ; H04L12/26 ; G06F9/455 ; H04L12/721 ; H04L29/06

Abstract:
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for flow stitching network traffic flow segments across middleboxes. A method can include collecting flow records of traffic flow segments at a first middlebox and a second middlebox in a network environment including one or more transaction identifiers assigned to the traffic flow segments. Sources and destinations of the traffic flow segments can be identified with respect to the first middlebox and the second middlebox. Corresponding subsets of the traffic flow segments can be stitched together to from a first stitched traffic flow at the first middlebox and a second stitched traffic flow at the second middlebox. The first and second stitched traffic flows can be stitched together to form a cross-middlebox stitched traffic flow across the first middlebox and the second middlebox. The cross-middlebox stitched traffic flow can be incorporated as part of network traffic data for the network environment.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190230041A1 DISCOVERY OF MIDDLEBOXES USING TRAFFIC FLOW STITCHING Public/Granted day:2019-07-25
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