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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 13, 2010
Filed:
Oct. 17, 2001
Wayne A. Feick, Redwood City, CA (US);
Sean P. Finn, Belmont, CA (US);
Mansour J. Karam, Mountain View, CA (US);
Michael A. Lloyd, San Carlos, CA (US);
Herbert S. Madan, Tiburon, CA (US);
James G. Mcguire, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jose-miguel Pulido, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Omar C. Baldonado, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Wayne A. Feick, Redwood City, CA (US);
Sean P. Finn, Belmont, CA (US);
Mansour J. Karam, Mountain View, CA (US);
Michael A. Lloyd, San Carlos, CA (US);
Herbert S. Madan, Tiburon, CA (US);
James G. McGuire, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jose-Miguel Pulido, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Omar C. Baldonado, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Avaya Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
The present invention is directed to using measurement packets to compute network performance. Embodiments that send, receive and both send and receive measurement packets are described. Some embodiments are described that compute statistics based at least partly on measurement traffic. Some embodiments are described that communicate computed statistics within measurement traffic. Some embodiments are described that rank and select paths based at least partly on computed statistics.