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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 24, 2021

Filed:

Mar. 17, 2020
Applicant:

Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);

Inventors:

Balachander Chandrasekaran, San Ramon, CA (US);

Anand Srinivas, San Francisco, CA (US);

Murtaza Zafer, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

VMWARE, INC., Palo Alto, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/26 (2006.01); H04L 29/12 (2006.01); H04L 12/801 (2013.01); H04L 12/24 (2006.01); H04L 12/841 (2013.01); H04W 8/02 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 43/0882 (2013.01); H04L 41/142 (2013.01); H04L 43/0811 (2013.01); H04L 47/11 (2013.01); H04L 47/28 (2013.01); H04L 61/103 (2013.01); H04L 61/1511 (2013.01); H04W 8/02 (2013.01); H04L 43/0817 (2013.01); H04L 43/0829 (2013.01); H04L 43/0852 (2013.01); H04L 61/1523 (2013.01); H04L 61/2015 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system and method is disclosed of extracting information from real-time network packet data to analyze connectivity data for client devices in a network. The method includes: detecting when client devices initiate a connectivity event; after detecting a connectivity event, waiting a period of time for the client device to either reach or fail to reach a network connected state; after waiting a period of time, recording connectivity event information; and sending the recorded connectivity event information to an analytics system for network incident and/or network congestion analysis.


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