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Automatic provisioning of new users of interest for capture on a communication network

  • US 8,938,534 B2
  • Filed: 12/22/2011
  • Issued: 01/20/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/30/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A network monitoring system comprising:

  • an access device operative to;

    intercept data in transit over a computer network, andparse a data stream of the data in transit over the computer network based on an interception request made by an analyst to probe the computer network for a communication of a known user of interest; and

    a metadata processing engine coupled to the access device, wherein the metadata processing engine determines a new user of interest using metadata from a user not currently of interest in conjunction with metadata from the communication of the known user of interest, and wherein the metadata processing engine is operative to;

    accept the communication from the access device,evaluate the communication intercepted from the computer network for a relationship between the metadata of the communication of the known user of interest and the user not currently of interest,convert the user not currently of interest to a new user of interest based on the evaluation of the data retrieved from the computer network,automatically provision the new user of interest through enabling automatic generation of a second interception criteria to probe the computer network for a second communication of the new user of interest,communicate an identification (ID) for the new user of interest to the access device to enable the access device retrieve a second set of data that is in transit over the computer network based on the automatically generated second interception criteria to probe the computer network for the second communication of the new user of interest, andmonitor the computer network for the second set of data related to the new user of interest.

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