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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 29, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 26, 2007
Ming Zhang, Bellevue, WA (US);
Peter Bernard Key, Harwick, GB;
Sandeep Kishan Singhal, Kirkland, WA (US);
Guobin Shen, Beijing, CN;
Ayalvadi Jagannathan Ganesh, Bristol, GB;
Thomas Karagiannis, Cambridge, GB;
Ming Zhang, Bellevue, WA (US);
Peter Bernard Key, Harwick, GB;
Sandeep Kishan Singhal, Kirkland, WA (US);
Guobin Shen, Beijing, CN;
Ayalvadi Jagannathan Ganesh, Bristol, GB;
Thomas Karagiannis, Cambridge, GB;
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A service for facilitating a determination of path quality between a first endpoint node and a second endpoint node in a network of nodes is provided. Path quality information is aggregated from across network internet service providers (ISPs), giving authorized endpoints access to path quality information for specified path segments of a path to another endpoint. Path quality information includes one or more metrics that measure available bandwidth, loss rate and/or latency.