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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 08, 2011
S Scott Van DE Houten, Geneva, FL (US);
Pritam Shah, Fremont, CA (US);
Sanjay Sreenath, San Jose, CA (US);
Preety Mordani, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
S Scott Van de Houten, Geneva, FL (US);
Pritam Shah, Fremont, CA (US);
Sanjay Sreenath, San Jose, CA (US);
Preety Mordani, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
In an embodiment, a method comprises receiving a request to obtain network performance data for a plurality of target nodes; determining geo-locations of the plurality of target nodes; based on the geo-locations, determining a set of the plurality of target nodes that are within a specified proximity radius; selecting one particular target node in the set; sending a probe packet, requesting network performance data, to the one particular target node in the set and not to all other target nodes in the set; applying, to all the target nodes in the set, network performance data that is received in response to the probe packet; wherein the method is performed by one or more processors.