Communication information analysis system

• US 9,154,513 B2
• Filed: 01/21/2011
• Issued: 10/06/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 02/09/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LAC Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Netagent Co., Ltd. (LAC Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Nakayama, Takayoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Orgad, Edan
• Assistant Examiner(s): MAGLO, EMMANUEL K
• Application Number:
  US13/011,078
• Publication Number:
  US 20110194435A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,719 Days
• Field of Search: 370/252, 370/254, 370/401, 709224-227, 709/202, 709/203
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/1408 by monitoring network traffic monitoring network traffic per se H04L43/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/308 retaining data, e.g. retaining successful, unsuccessful communication attempts, internet access, or e-mail, internet telephony, intercept related information or call content

Abstract

The communication information analysis system that executes the storing and the analyzing of the communication packets inexpensively without reducing the rate and reliability of the data communication network. The system of present invention comprises one or more communication terminals and a server computer. When the user terminal communicate with other communication terminals, the user terminal stores the packets to be sent and the received packets into itself as the electrical data file, at the acquisition unit, for example, time interval. The electrical data file is sent to the server computer and stored into it. The server computer analyzes the communication packets using the electrical data file stored in the server computer itself, when requested from the user.

Claims

1. A communication information analysis system comprising:

a first terminal computer communicationally connected to a second terminal computer by way of a data communication network; and

a server computer communicationally connected to the first terminal computer by way of the data communication network to analyze communication between the first and the second terminal computer, wherein;

the first terminal computer comprises;

computer hardware executing one or more processes to;

register for installation of a communication packet storing software for storing communication packets transceived between the first terminal computer and the second terminal computer;

execute the installed communication packet storing software for accepting settings of specifying a size of stored communication packets in an electronic file and a setting of specifying a time period cycle to generate the electronic file, and responsive to a packet recording command monitoring communication packets of the first terminal computer to acquire and store, in an electronic file, data of a first communication packet when a user of the first terminal computer operates an application software of the first terminal computer to send the first communication packet to the second terminal computer, and acquire and store data of a second communication packet received by the first terminal computer from the second terminal computer, the data of the second communication packet to be reappeared visually or auditory by the application software of the first terminal computer, the first and second communication packets tranceived between the first and second terminal computers are acquired and stored in the electronic file according to at least one of the setting of the size of stored communication packets in the electronic file or the setting of the time period cycle to generate the electronic file, thereby the electronic file for the first terminal computer storing data of both the first and second communication packets transceived between the first and second terminal computers; and

sending the electronic file to the server computer; and

the server computer comprises;

computer hardware executing one or more processes to;

store the electronic file received from the first terminal computer into the server computer, and

analyze the data of the first and second communication packets stored in the electronic file received from the first terminal computer, to reappear communication information visually or auditory according to the data of the first and second communication packets transceived between the first and second terminal computers.

2. The communication information analysis system according to claim 1, wherein the reappeared communication information by the server computer contains information generated according to both header information of the first and second communication packets stored in the electronic file received from the first terminal computer.

3. The communication information analysis system according to claim 1, wherein the reappeared communication information by the server computer is data according to a main communication data in the first and second communication packets stored in the electronic file received from the first terminal computer.

4. The communication information analysis system according to claim 1, wherein a plurality of first terminal computers are communicationally connected to respective plurality of local area networks, a local area network of the plurality of local area networks capable of being communicationally connected to the server computer by way of the data communication network.

5. The communication information analysis system according to claim 1, wherein the computer hardware of the first terminal computer executes a process to encrypt the data of the first and second of the communication packets stored by the first terminal computer in the electronic file.

6. A first terminal computer communicationally connected to a second terminal computer and a server computer by way of a data communication network, the first terminal computer comprising:

computer hardware configured with programs executing one or more processes to;

register for installation of a communication packet storing software for storing communication packets transceived between the first terminal computer and the second terminal computer; and

execute the installed communication packet storing software for accepting settings of specifying a size of stored communication packets in an electronic file and a setting of specifying a time period cycle to generate the electronic file, and responsive to a packet recording command monitoring communication packets of the first terminal computer to create the electronic file containing data of a first communication packet to be sent from the first terminal computer to the second terminal computer, the data of the first communication packet acquired when a user of the first terminal computer operates an application software of the first terminal computer to send the first communication packet to the second terminal computer, and containing data of a second communication packet received by the first terminal computer from the second terminal computer, the data of the second communication packet to be reappeared visually or auditory by the application software of the first terminal computer, the first and second communication packets tranceived between the first and second terminal computers are acquired and stored in the electronic file according to at least one of the setting of the size of stored communication packets in the electronic file or the setting of the time period cycle to generate the electronic file, thereby the electronic file for the first terminal computer storing data of both the first and second communication packets transceived between the first and second terminal computers,

wherein response to an instruction from the first terminal computer, the stored electronic file is uploaded to the server computer which analyzes the data of the first and second communication packets stored in the electronic file received from the first terminal computer to reappear communication information visually or auditory according to the data of the first and second communication packets transceived between the first and second terminal computers.

7. The first terminal computer according to claim 6, wherein the reappeared communication information by the server computer contains information generated according to both header information of the first and second communication packets stored in the electronic file sent from the first terminal computer.

8. The first terminal computer according to claim 6, wherein the reappeared communication information by the server computer is data according to a main communication data in the first and second communication packets stored in the electronic file sent from the first terminal computer.

9. The first terminal computer according to claim 6, wherein the first terminal computer is communicationally connected to a local area network capable of being connected to the server computer by way of the data communication network.

10. The first terminal computer according to claim 6, wherein the computer hardware is configured with a program to encrypt the data of the first and second communication packets stored in the electronic file sent by the first terminal computer to the server computer.