METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETECTION AND CLASSIFICATION OF MULTIMEDIA CONTENT IN SECURED TRANSACTIONS USING PATTERN MATCHING

An apparatus is provided for classifying content in one or more transactions. The apparatus includes a transaction boundary detector configured to detect boundaries of the transactions associated with a first server or a first destination. The apparatus further includes a multimedia session generator configured to generate a multimedia session object based on the detected boundaries of the one or more transactions. The apparatus further includes a multimedia classifier configured to classify the content associated with a first multimedia session as being communicated under at least one of: HTTP live streaming (HLS) protocols, dynamic adaptive streaming over HTTP (DASH) protocols, adaptive bit rate protocols, progressive download protocols, or non-multimedia protocols.