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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 08, 2014
Filed:
Apr. 12, 2011
Hassan A. Shojania, Mountain View, CA (US);
Hyeonkuk Jeong, Saratoga, CA (US);
Joe S. Abuan, San Jose, CA (US);
Roberto Garcia, Jr., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Thomas C. Jansen, San Francisco, CA (US);
James O. Normile, Los Altos, CA (US);
Hsi-jung Wu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Yan Yang, San Jose, CA (US);
Xiaosong Zhou, Campbell, CA (US);
Hassan A. Shojania, Mountain View, CA (US);
Hyeonkuk Jeong, Saratoga, CA (US);
Joe S. Abuan, San Jose, CA (US);
Roberto Garcia, Jr., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Thomas C. Jansen, San Francisco, CA (US);
James O. Normile, Los Altos, CA (US);
Hsi-Jung Wu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Yan Yang, San Jose, CA (US);
Xiaosong Zhou, Campbell, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Some embodiments provide a method of combining multiple streams of data packets into a single combined stream in a manner that facilitates accurate estimation of bandwidth of a connection over a network between two devices. When combining the streams into the combined stream, the method associates a set of packets from a first stream and a reference packet from a second stream to form a longer sequence of packets in the combined stream. The method sends the combined stream from a first device to a second device so that the second device can estimate the bandwidth of the connection between the first and second devices based on the inter-arrival times of the packets in the sequence of packets.