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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 03, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 09, 2011
Applicant:
Mihail Florin Constantinescu, Bucharest, RO;
Inventor:
Mihail Florin Constantinescu, Bucharest, RO;
Assignee:
Ixia, Calabasas, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Methods and apparatus for conducting a test of a network including a plurality of endpoints, each endpoint including a software agent for conducting network tests. Candidate endpoints pairs to conduct the test may be identified from the plurality of endpoints. The candidate endpoints pairs may be ranked in accordance with stored connectivity data. The connectivity of the candidate endpoint pairs may be checked in rank order until a connectable endpoint pair is located. The connectable endpoint pair may be instructed to conduct the test.