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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 19, 2011
Filed:
Feb. 29, 2008
Andrew Dolganow, Kanata, CA;
Steven Edward Morin, Ottawa, CA;
Anthony Peres, Ottawa, CA;
Alcatel Lucent, Paris, FR;
Abstract
A method of using deep packet inspection (DPI) to monitor Quality of Experience (QoE) The method may include one or more of the following: building an application specific service ping packet having an application identification field that identifies an application to which the application specific service ping packet corresponds; forwarding the application specific service ping packet towards a destination in a network; determining requested application-specific performance and resource metrics; collecting the requested application-specific performance and resource metrics; inserting the requested application-specific performance and resource metrics into the application specific service ping packet; and extracting the service ping packet from the network.