Abstract: According to one embodiment, a network architecture includes a plurality of application monitoring modules for monitoring network traffic data that store the data in meta-flow tuples with associated measures. The meta-flow tuples include a protocol dimension with a value corresponding to a leaf node in a protocol identifier array. The protocol identifier array represents a protocol tree structure based on a set of nodes with pointers to parent, sibling, and child nodes corresponding to the protocol tree. The pointers include protocol identifier values that correspond to memory offset values with respect to the array. For queried protocol dimensions, the protocol identifier array is used to traverse the protocol tree from the leaf node in the meta-flow to a matching node matching the queried protocol. If the queried protocol is found in the protocol lineage of the meta-flow, the measures for the meta-flow are used to satisfy the query.

Abstract: A method for processing daily consumption, demand and time of use meter reads for electric, gas, water and other metered entities. The meter reads are collected by any of the well known Automated Meter Reading (AMR) technologies and loaded into a meter data warehouse. At a minimum daily meter reading, reads that are tagged as Good, Stale, Partial, Incomplete and Missing are required for properly identifying usage patterns, applying rules for error patterns and estimating the reads which will provide quality meter reads to the utilities thereby identifying meter problems before they become billing problems. The overall process involves loading the daily meter reads into a database, comparing each meter read against its previous day's read and applying a set of rules that help in validating, editing and estimating (VEE) of this data. The VEE rules that are applied can be broadly classified into five (5) categories.