NETWORK BOOKMARKING BASED ON NETWORK TRAFFIC

• US 20090100169A1
• Filed: 10/10/2007
• Published: 04/16/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 10/10/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc. (Cisco Systems, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc. (Cisco Systems, Inc.)
• Inventors: Chancellor, Marisa, Allen, Robbie
• Granted Patent: US 8,255,519 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/224
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 15/173 using an interconnection network, e.g. matrix, shuffle, pyramid, star, snowflake
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/66 Arrangements for connecting between networks having differing types of switching systems, e.g. gateways

Abstract

A system comprises a packet data processing element; first network resource tracking logic operable to perform monitoring data packets as the packets pass through the network element; detecting network resource identifiers within the data packets; forming network resource identifier report messages that carry the network resource identifiers; forwarding the network resource identifier report messages to a bookmark processing server; storing records of each of the network resource identifiers carried therein; storing counters that identify numbers of times that associated network resource identifiers were requested; determining interesting network resource identifiers based on the records and decision steps; generating and providing a report of the interesting network resource identifiers. As one result, interesting network resource identifiers can be automatically found in network traffic and provided to a social bookmarking site.

Claims

3-1. The system of claim 1, wherein the first network resource tracking logic comprises logic which when executed causes:

retrieving, for a particular one of the network resource identifiers, online content associated with the particular one of the network resource identifiers;

identifying one or more words of interest in the online content;

providing the one or more words of interest to the bookmark processing server in association with one of the network resource identifier report messages.

10. A computer-readable data storage medium comprising:

first network resource tracking logic encoded in the storage medium for execution and when executed by one or more processors operable to perform;

monitoring one or more data packets as the one or more data packets pass through a network element;

detecting one or more network resource identifiers within the one or more data packets;

forming one or more network resource identifier report messages that carry the one or more network resource identifiers;

forwarding the one or more network resource identifier report messages to a bookmark processing server;

bookmark processing logic encoded in the storage medium for execution and when executed is operable to perform;

receiving the one or more network resource identifier report messages and storing one or more records of each of the one or more network resource identifiers carried therein;

creating and storing counters in the records, wherein the counters identify numbers of times that associated network resource identifiers were requested;

determining one or more interesting network resource identifiers based on the records and one or more decision steps;

generating and providing a report of the interesting network resource identifiers.

11. A data processing system, comprising:

a first packet data processing element comprising;

one or more ingress network interfaces that are coupled to a data network for receiving one or more data packets therefrom;

one or more egress network interfaces that are coupled to a data network for sending one or more data packets thereto;

one or more processors;

a packet switching system coupled to the one or more processors and to the ingress network interfaces and to the egress network interfaces and configured to receive one of the data packets from one of the ingress network interfaces, determine next hop for the one of the data packets, and forward the one of the data packets toward the next hop on a selected one of the egress interfaces;

means for monitoring the one or more data packets as the one or more data packets pass through the data processing element;

means for detecting one or more network resource identifiers within the one or more data packets;

means for forming one or more network resource identifier report messages that carry the one or more network resource identifiers;

means for forwarding the one or more network resource identifier report messages to a bookmark processing server;

wherein the bookmark processing server comprises;

means for receiving the one or more network resource identifier report messages and storing one or more records of each of the one or more network resource identifiers carried therein;

means for creating and storing counters in the records, wherein the counters identify numbers of times that associated network resource identifiers were requested;

means for determining one or more interesting network resource identifiers based on the records and one or more decision mechanisms;

means for generating and providing a report of the interesting network resource identifiers.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the one or more decision mechanisms comprise means for determining the highest counters.

13. The system of claim 11, wherein the bookmark processing server further comprises means for creating and storing a list of excluded network resource identifiers, means for determining whether the one or more network resource identifiers carried in the one or more network resource identifier report messages are in the list of excluded network resource identifiers, and means for not storing the network resource identifiers when the one or more network resource identifiers carried in the one or more network resource identifier report messages are in the list of excluded network resource identifiers.

14. The system of claim 11, wherein the first packet data processing element further comprises:

means for retrieving, for a particular one of the network resource identifiers, online content associated with the particular one of the network resource identifiers;

means for identifying one or more words of interest in the online content;

means for providing the one or more words of interest to the bookmark processing server in association with one of the network resource identifier report messages.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the bookmark processing logic further comprises:

means for storing the one or more words of interest in a searchable data store;

means for receiving user input specifying a search for one or more search terms;

means for searching the data store to identify one or more network resource identifiers associated with any of the one or more words of interest that match the one or more search terms;

means for providing a report of the one or more network resource identifiers associated with any of the one or more words of interest that match the one or more search terms.

16. The system of claim 11, further comprising a second packet data processing element coupled through the network to the first packet data processing element and comprising second network resource tracking logic means for performing monitoring second one or more data packets as the second one or more data packets pass through the second data processing element;

means for detecting other network resource identifiers within the second one or more data packets;

means for forming one or more other network resource identifier report messages that carry the one or more other network resource identifiers;

means for forwarding the one or more other network resource identifier report messages to the bookmark processing server.

17. The system of claim 11 further comprising a plurality of other packet data processing elements coupled to the first packet data processing elements in other locations in the network and comprising means for forwarding to the bookmark processing server one or more other network resource identifier report messages carrying one or more other network resource identifiers detected in other data packets passing through the other packet data processing elements.

19. A method, comprising:

in a first packet data processing element comprising one or more ingress network interfaces that are coupled to a data network for receiving one or more data packets therefrom;

one or more egress network interfaces that are coupled to a data network for sending one or more data packets thereto;

one or more processors;

a packet switching system coupled to the one or more processors and to the ingress network interfaces and to the egress network interfaces and configured to receive one of the data packets from one of the ingress network interfaces, determine next hop for the one of the data packets, and forward the one of the data packets toward the next hop on a selected one of the egress interfaces;

performing;

monitoring the one or more data packets as the one or more data packets pass through the data processing element;

detecting one or more network resource identifiers within the one or more data packets;

forming one or more network resource identifier report messages that carry the one or more network resource identifiers;

forwarding the one or more network resource identifier report messages to a bookmark processing server;

in the bookmark processing server;

receiving the one or more network resource identifier report messages and storing one or more records of each of the one or more network resource identifiers carried therein;

creating and storing counters in the records, wherein the counters identify numbers of times that associated network resource identifiers were requested;

determining one or more interesting network resource identifiers based on the records and one or more decision steps;

generating and providing a report of the interesting network resource identifiers.

20. The method of claim 19 further comprising, in the bookmark processing server, creating and sending to a social bookmarking website a request to enter a uniform resource locator (URL) into a data store of the social bookmarking website, where the request comprises one or more of the network resource identifiers.