Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Automatically determining sensor location in a virtualized computing environment
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Application No.: US14855811Application Date: 2015-09-16
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Publication No.: US09733973B2Publication Date: 2017-08-15
- Inventor: Rohit C. Prasad , Shashidhar R. Gandham , Navindra Yadav , Khawar Deen , Shih-Chun Chang , Ashutosh Kulshreshtha , Anubhav Gupta
- 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: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC
- Main IPC: G06F9/455
- IPC: G06F9/455 ; H04L12/26

Abstract:
A virtualized computing system including software sensors captures network data from one or more traffic flows the sensors. The captured network data from a given sensor indicates one or more traffic flows detected by the given sensor. The received captured network data is analyzed to identify, for each respective sensor, a first group of sensors, a second group of sensors, and a third group of sensors. All traffic flows observed by the first group of sensors are also observed by the second group of sensors. All traffic flows observed by the second group of sensors are also observed by the third group of sensors. A location of each respective sensor relative to other sensors within the virtualized computing system is determined based upon whether the respective sensor belongs to the first group of sensors, the second group of sensors, or the third group of sensors.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170075710A1 AUTOMATICALLY DETERMINING SENSOR LOCATION IN A VIRTUALIZED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT Public/Granted day:2017-03-16
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