Network Traffic Analytics Cache for Duplicate Content
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Solution Overview
Problem
Analytics systems face increased demands on computational and storage resources due to repeated network traffic of popular content, which leads to unnecessary processing burdens.
Innovation Solution
The system identifies and caches unique identifiers for content items, allowing it to retrieve cached analytics outcomes for duplicates and process only new content, thereby reducing computational and storage resource usage.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If the analytics system processes all network traffic including duplicate content, then complete analytics coverage is achieved, but computational resources and processing time are wasted
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary action by checking the cache for existing content identifiers before processing content. The cache stores previously processed content identifiers and their analytics outcomes, allowing the system to quickly determine if content has been processed before without performing full analytics processing
Solution Approach 2:
The system extracts only the content identifier from incoming network traffic and compares it against the cache, rather than processing the entire content. This extraction approach separates the identification function from the analytics processing function, enabling efficient duplicate detection
2Measurement precision
If the system caches all processed content identifiers, then duplicate detection accuracy is improved, but storage resource consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system creates a simplified copy of content in the cache by storing only content identifiers (such as hashes or unique keys) rather than the full content itself. This copying strategy maintains duplicate detection accuracy while dramatically reducing the storage resources required in the cache
Data Source
AI summary
Embodiments that are described herein provide improved methods and systems for analyzing network traffic. The disclosed embodiments enable an analytics system to perform complex processing to only new, first occurrences of received content, while refraining from processing duplicate instances of that content. In an embodiment, the analytics results regarding the first occurring content are reported and cached in association with the content. For any duplicate instance of the content, the analytics results are retrieved from the cache without re-processing of the duplicate content. When using the disclosed techniques, the system still processes all first occurring content but not duplicate instances of content that was previously received and processed. In the embodiments described herein, input data comprises communication packets exchanged in a communication network.