Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method and system for monitoring communication in a network
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Application No.: US16242016Application Date: 2019-01-08
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Publication No.: US10749765B2Publication Date: 2020-08-18
- Inventor: Katherine Barabash , Dean Har'el Lorenz , Eran Raichstein , Liran Schour
- Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agent Ziv Glazberg
- Main IPC: H04L12/26
- IPC: H04L12/26

Abstract:
A method, system and computer program product, the method comprising: in response to receiving a packet from a stream of packets transmitted to a computing platform, determining, based on a meta-data of the packet, whether to capture the packet or avoid capturing thereof, said determining comprising: subject to the meta-data indicating that a sequence number of the packet is within a first range or within a second range, wherein a distance between an end of the first range and a beginning of the second range is at least of a predetermined size, wherein a distance, through a wraparound, between an end of the second range and a beginning of the first range is at least of the predetermined size, thereby a wraparound situation is identifiable within the stream of packets; and in response to determining to capture the packet: capturing the packet; and transmitting the packet to analysis.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200220794A1 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MONITOING COMMUNICATION IN A NETWORK Public/Granted day:2020-07-09
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