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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 14, 2010
Filed:
May. 31, 2006
Kevin Joseph Connor, Blaine, WA (US);
Mohammed Taher Shaikh, Fremont, CA (US);
Ilya Umansky, San Jose, CA (US);
Radhika Padmanabhan, Saratoga, CA (US);
Xiaode Xu, Fremont, CA (US);
Kevin Joseph Connor, Blaine, WA (US);
Mohammed Taher Shaikh, Fremont, CA (US);
Ilya Umansky, San Jose, CA (US);
Radhika Padmanabhan, Saratoga, CA (US);
Xiaode Xu, Fremont, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A device and method provides a means for monitoring a media segment of a Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) media stream without interfering with end-to-end monitoring of the RTP media stream. The device includes a media segment monitor to generate segment control messages associated with a selected segment of the RTP media stream transmitted between a source endpoint and a destination endpoint in a packet network. The device further includes an interface to transmit and receive the segment control messages; and a processor to process the segment control messages, the segment control messages including call quality metrics related to the selected segment of the RTP media stream.