20090207750 | NETWORK MONITORING BASED ON POINTER INFORMATION - A computer system and method for identifying and extracting content from data traffic, the system including: a capture driver arranged to monitor data traffic and to copy data packets from the traffic to a buffer without disrupting the traffic flow, and to generate pointer information to identify specific parts of a data packet; a plurality of decoder modules, each module being adapted to decode one or more specific data transfer protocols; and a control interface adapted to receive pointer information from the capture driver, to route the pointer information to one or more of the plurality of decoder modules, and to route extracted content from the data traffic to an application. | 08-20-2009 |