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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 08, 2008
Filed:
Apr. 08, 2005
Applicants:
Khawar M. Zuberi, Bellevue, WA (US);
Mathias Jourdain, Seattle, WA (US);
Inventors:
Khawar M. Zuberi, Bellevue, WA (US);
Mathias Jourdain, Seattle, WA (US);
Assignee:
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/28 (2006.01); G01R 31/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and apparatus to determine whether a network is quality of service enabled is disclosed. The method may send a variety of test packets through a network and depending on how the network handles the packets, a determination may be made whether the network does not support packets with quality of service identification, tolerates packets with quality of service identification or supports packets with quality of service identification.