Abstract: In various embodiments, techniques are provided for creating visualizations of network traffic. Such disclosed techniques may be incorporated by or implemented by one or more computing devices, computer systems, embedded systems, application-specific circuitry, or the like, that generate visualizations of network traffic. Network traffic information may be obtained in response to monitoring network traffic associated with a communications network. The network traffic information may include a variety of detailed or summary analysis of network traffic. In general, network traffic may summarized according to applications associated with network traffic. Hierarchies developed based on relationships between application categories, the applications themselves, and users or groups associated with the applications may be used to develop one or more of a variety of visual representations of the network traffic information.

Abstract: The invention relates to the synchronization of multi-media events on a computer. A computer of limited core or random access memory makes it difficult to run concurrently various media processes, such as video, music, and titling. The invention provides a way of loading such processes into such memory so as to approximate optimally the desired synchronized production when such processes are played. The invention also provides a way of parameterizing the play of the video process to the play of the music process.