Method and System for Annotating Network Flow Information

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United States of America Patent

APP PUB NO 20090168648A1
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11967130

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A scalable flow monitoring solution takes in standard flow records exported from network devices such as routers, switches, firewalls, hubs, etc., and annotates the flow with additional information. This information is derived from a number of sources, including Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), user configuration, and other, intelligent flow analysis. These annotations add information to the flow data, and can be used to perform value-added flow analysis. The annotated flow is then resent to a configurable set of destinations using standard flow formatting, e.g., Cisco System Inc.'s NetFlow, in one implementation. This allows the annotated flow to be processed and the enhanced information to be used by other flow analysis tools and existing flow analysis infrastructure.

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ARBOR NETWORKS INC76 BLANCHARD ROAD BURLINGTON MA 01803

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Eggleston, Joseph Ann Arbor , US 2 179
Iekel-Johnson, Scott Ann Arbor , US 9 557
Labovitz, Craig Ann Arbor , US 2 50

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