Method and System for Monitoring and Tracing Multimedia Resource Transmission

• US 20120197847A1
• Filed: 04/30/2010
• Published: 08/02/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 10/20/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: ZTE Corporation
• Original Assignee: ZTE Corporation
• Inventors: Yang, Yong, Xu, Jianguo, Wang, Qiao, Lu, Wei
• Application Number:
  US13/258,041
• Publication Number:
  US 20120197847A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/679
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/40 of multimedia data, e.g. slideshows comprising image and additional audio data retrieval of still image data G06F16/50; retrieval of audio data G06F16/60; retrieval of video data G06F16/70
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/00 Arrangements for monitoring or testing data switching networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/026 using flow identification
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/028 by filtering
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/04 Processing captured monitoring data, e.g. for logfile generation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/61 for supporting one-way streaming services, e.g. Internet radio
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/70 Media network packetisation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/764 at the destination reformatting of additional data in video clients H04N21/4355

Abstract

The present invention discloses a method and a system for monitoring and tracing transmission of multimedia resources, wherein, said method comprises: capturing data packets in a network link, reassembling the captured data packets to complete the restoration of data streams, and storing the restored data streams into a data stream database; and extracting data fragments from a multimedia file as file DNA fragments to construct a file DNA, and storing the file DNA into a file DNA database; and invoking the file DNA from the file DNA database, and identifying the file DNA fragments of the file DNA in the data streams to get identification results.

Claims

1. A method for monitoring and tracing transmission of multimedia resources, comprising:

capturing data packets in a network link, reassembling the captured data packets to complete restoration of data streams, and storing the restored data streams into a data stream database; and

extracting data fragments from a multimedia file as file DNA fragments to construct a file DNA, and storing the file DNA into a file DNA database; and

invoking the file DNA from the file DNA database, and identifying the file DNA fragments of the file DNA in the data streams to obtain identification results.

2. The method for monitoring and tracing transmission of multimedia resources of claim 1, wherein, before capturing data packets, the method further comprises:

configuring a number of data packets needed to be captured in a single capturing process, and a maximum value of a size of a single data packet;

allocating a memory space for the captured data packets for caching, according to the number of data packets needed to be captured in a single capturing process, and the maximum value of a size of a single data packet.

3. The method for monitoring and tracing transmission of multimedia resources of claim 2, wherein, after capturing data packets and before reassembling the captured data packets, the method further comprises:

parsing the captured data packets according to a data structure of arrival time+header information+payload, and caching the parsed data packets into the memory space;

the arrival time being a time at which the data packet is captured;

the header information at least comprising 5-tuple information of a transport layer of the data packet; and

the payload being valid data of the data packet; and

the 5-tuple information of the transport layer being;

a source IP address, a destination IP address, a source port number, a destination port number and a type of a transport layer protocol.

4. The method for monitoring and tracing transmission of multimedia resources of claim 3, wherein, said step of reassembling the data packets comprises:

reading the data packets from the memory space; and

creating data streams using the 5-tuple information of the transport layer of a header of the currently read data packet as indexes, and adding the payload of the current data packet into the created data streams to complete the restoration of the data streams.

5. The method for monitoring and tracing transmission of multimedia resources of claim 1, wherein, said step of constructing a file DNA comprises:

assembling a plurality of the file DNA fragments as file DNA data; and

using relevant information of the file DNA data as file DNA information, and writing the file DNA information and the file DNA data into a file to form the file DNA.

6. The method for monitoring and tracing transmission of multimedia resources of claim 5, wherein, before extracting data fragments from a multimedia file as file DNA fragments, the method further comprises:

selecting an extracting mode of the corresponding file DNA fragments according to a type of the multimedia file; and

in said step of extracting data fragments from a multimedia file as file DNA fragments, extracting the file DNA fragments from the multimedia file according to the extracting mode of the file DNA fragments.

7. The method for monitoring and tracing transmission of multimedia resources of claim 5, wherein, after constructing the file DNA, the method further comprises:

if a proportion value of a number of non-unique file DNA fragments to a number of all the file DNA fragments in the file DNA is determined to be greater than a preset validity threshold, determining that the file DNA is invalid; and

if a proportion value of a number of non-unique file DNA fragments to a number of all the file DNA fragments in the file DNA is determined to be less than a preset validity threshold, determining that the file DNA is valid; and

when the file DNA is invalid, the method further comprising;

re-selecting the extracting mode of the file DNA fragments, and re-extracting the file DNA fragments; and

when the file DNA is valid, said step of storing into the file DNA database comprising;

storing the file DNA into the file DNA database in a format of the file DNA information+the file DNA data.

8. The method for monitoring and tracing transmission of multimedia resources of claim 1, wherein, said step of identifying the file DNA fragments to obtain identification results comprises:

accessing the data stream database, and acquiring the data streams;

when determining that a number of the file DNA fragments identified in the data streams is greater than or equal to a preset threshold, obtaining the identification results, and determining that there is a transmission of the multimedia file to which the file DNA fragments belong in a process of network transmission to which the data streams belong; and

when determining that the number of the file DNA fragments identified in the data streams is less than the preset threshold, re-acquiring the data streams from the data stream database.

9. The method for monitoring and tracing transmission of multimedia resources of claim 8, wherein, after obtaining the identification results, the method further comprises:

storing the identification results into an identification result database; and

the identification results at least comprising;

relevant information of the data streams and relevant information of the multimedia file to which the file DNA fragments belong.

10. A system for monitoring and tracing transmission of multimedia resources, comprising, a data acquiring module, a data stream restoring module, and a data stream database which are connected in turn, a file DNA extracting module and a file DNA database which are connected, and a file DNA identifying module connected with both the data stream database and the file DNA database, wherein,

the data acquiring module is configured to capture data packets in a network link;

the data stream restoring module is configured to reassemble the captured data packets to complete restoration of data streams;

the data stream database is configured to store the restored data streams;

the file DNA extracting module is configured to extract data fragments from a multimedia file as file DNA fragments to construct a file DNA;

the file DNA database is configured to store the file DNA; and

the file DNA identifying module is configured to invoke the file DNA from the file DNA database, and identify the file DNA fragments of the file DNA in the data streams of the data stream database to obtain identification results.

11. The system for monitoring and tracing transmission of multimedia resources of claim 10, further comprising:

an identification result database, which is configured to store the identification results.