Patent ReferencesNetwork analysis method Network monitoring device System and method for traffic management in a network management system Communications network monitoring Intelligent realtime monitoring of data traffic Network surveillance system Hierarchically interconnected routers for exclusively polling low activity network nodes to reduce polling traffic Patent #: 6396845 InventorsApplicationNo. 658137 filed on 09/08/2000US Classes:709/224Computer network monitoringExaminersPrimary: Heckler, Thomas M.Attorney, Agent or FirmInternational ClassesG06F 011/30G06F 012/14 AbstractA computer-automated method of hierarchical event monitoring and analysis within an enterprise network including deploying network monitors in the enterprise network, detecting, by the network monitors, suspicious network activity based on analysis of network traffic data selected from the following categories: {network packet data transfer commands, network packet data transfer errors, network packet data volume, network connection requests, network connection denials, error codes included in a network packet}, generating, by the monitors, reports of the suspicious activity, and automatically receiving and integrating the reports of suspicious activity, by one or more hierarchical monitors.Other References
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