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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 26, 2010
Filed:
Dec. 03, 2007
Eric John Diethorn, Long Valley, NJ (US);
Parameshwaran Krishnan, Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Jean Meloche, Madison, NJ (US);
Balaji Sathyanarayana Rao, Somerville, NJ (US);
Jay M. Stiles, Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
John R. Tuck, Jr., Berkeley Heights, NJ (US);
Eric John Diethorn, Long Valley, NJ (US);
Parameshwaran Krishnan, Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Jean Meloche, Madison, NJ (US);
Balaji Sathyanarayana Rao, Somerville, NJ (US);
Jay M. Stiles, Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
John R. Tuck, Jr., Berkeley Heights, NJ (US);
Avaya, Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
An apparatus and method are disclosed that enable a first telecommunications endpoint to ensure that a second endpoint is receiving the first endpoint's packet stream transmissions with a satisfactory waveform quality. When the second endpoint receives the packet stream, it decodes the media waveform from the stream, encodes the waveform back into a second packet stream, and transmits some or all of the packets in the second stream back to the first endpoint. The first endpoint then decodes the received waveform in the second stream and compares it to the original waveform transmitted to the second endpoint. Based on the comparison, the first endpoint adjusts the value of a quality indication, and provides the quality indication to its user and to the second endpoint. Advantageously, the user at the second endpoint is able to determine whether the received waveform is, in fact, close enough to the waveform that the first endpoint's user intended to be received and understood.