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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 25, 2012
Filed:
Oct. 02, 2007
Ming Zhang, Redmond, WA (US);
Ratul Mahajan, Seattle, WA (US);
Lindsey Philip Poole, Princeton, NJ (US);
Vivek Sadananda Pai, Princeton, NJ (US);
Ming Zhang, Redmond, WA (US);
Ratul Mahajan, Seattle, WA (US);
Lindsey Philip Poole, Princeton, NJ (US);
Vivek Sadananda Pai, Princeton, NJ (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
The claimed subject matter provides systems and/or methods that discover comparative differences in performance of Internet Service Provider networks. The system can include devices, components, and/or processes that partitions measurement processes into cycles and measures at least one Internet Service Provider network every cycle, develops and distributes to interrogation nodes a list of destination Internet Protocol (IP) addresses to interrogate, and utilizes results delivered or retrieved from interrogation nodes to generate a report on the comparative performance of Internet Service Provider networks queried.