Protocol Analysis Controller for Network Event Coordination
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing network testing methods are hindered by cryptic graphical user interfaces and the difficulty in coordinating multiple technicians to capture specific network events simultaneously, making protocol analysis cumbersome and inefficient.
Innovation Solution
A simplified protocol analysis network system utilizing remotely controlled multipurpose interface devices and protocol analysis controller devices to intercept, filter, and transmit data packets, with user-friendly graphical user interfaces for configuring and managing protocol analysis requests, allowing for coordinated data capture across multiple nodes.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple technicians use various electronic devices with cryptic graphical user interfaces to coordinate network event capture, then network testing can be performed across numerous physically separated nodes, but the difficulty of capturing specific network events increases and coordination becomes overly burdensome
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a centralized server as an intermediary that coordinates between multiple protocol analyzers distributed across the network. The server manages the complex coordination logic, allowing individual technicians to use simplified interfaces while the server handles the sophisticated coordination of capturing network events across multiple nodes simultaneously.
Solution Approach 2:
The protocol analyzers are designed as multipurpose devices that can function both as standalone analysis tools and as coordinated components of a distributed network testing system. This universality allows the same device to operate in different modes depending on whether it needs to work independently or as part of a coordinated multi-node capture, reducing the need for multiple specialized tools.
2Measurement precision
If cryptic graphical user interfaces are used on electronic devices for protocol analysis, then comprehensive network event capture is possible, but user friendliness decreases and technician difficulty increases
Solution Approach 1:
The centralized server acts as an intermediary that handles the complex configuration and coordination tasks, allowing client devices to present simplified graphical user interfaces to technicians. The server processes the high-level user requests and translates them into the detailed coordination commands needed for accurate network event capture across multiple nodes.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses distributed protocol analyzers that replicate the core functionality across multiple nodes, with each analyzer capturing local network traffic and forwarding relevant data to the centralized server. This copying approach allows the system to maintain comprehensive capture capability while distributing the workload and simplifying individual interface requirements.
Data Source
AI summary
A system and method in accordance with exemplary embodiments may include receiving, from a user system, one or more protocol analysis request messages via a network, transmitting, to one or more multipurpose interface devices, one or more control signals based on the one or more protocol analysis request messages, receiving, from the one or more multipurpose interface devices, protocol analysis data associated with data traffic transmitted on one or more test networks in response to the transmitted control signals, and outputting, to the user system, the protocol analysis data via the network.