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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 03, 2015
Filed:
Apr. 24, 2009
Applicant:
Nicholas W Farrow, Ipswich, GB;
Inventor:
Nicholas W Farrow, Ipswich, GB;
Assignee:
BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS public limited company, London, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 1/20 (2006.01); H04L 12/26 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 43/0858 (2013.01); H04L 43/106 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present invention relates to a method of operating a communications network, comprising the steps of: receiving a plurality of packets from a network node; determining a first parameter based on the time period between the reception of a packet and the reception of the subsequent packet; determining a second parameter based on the variation of the first parameter; and determining the performance of the communications network in accordance with the ratio of the second parameter to the first parameter.