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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 06, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 14, 2012
Gomathi Ramachandran, Holmdel, NJ (US);
Leonard A. Ciavattone, Holmdel, NJ (US);
Alfred C. Morton, Jr., Oceanport, NJ (US);
Gomathi Ramachandran, Holmdel, NJ (US);
Leonard A. Ciavattone, Holmdel, NJ (US);
Alfred C. Morton, Jr., Oceanport, NJ (US);
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
A method, device, and program for determining states in a flow of packets are provided. A flow of transmitted packets is received. When the difference between the sequence number of the arriving packet and the next expected sequence number is equal to zero and when the TTL number of the arriving packet is equal to the TTL number of the previous packet, there is a stable state beginning with the first of the consecutively received packets. If a difference between the sequence number of an arriving packet and a next expected sequence number is greater than 1, or TTL of the arriving packet is not equal to the TTL number of the previous packet, there is a not stable state. Time between end of one stable state and start of the next stable state is the hole, and the states and holes correlate to events for analysis of the network.