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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 15, 2009
Filed:
Nov. 19, 2001
Applicant:
Nicholas W. Dawes, Ottawa, CA;
Inventor:
Nicholas W. Dawes, Ottawa, CA;
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 1/16 (2005.12); H04J 3/14 (2005.12); H04L 1/00 (2005.12); H04L 12/26 (2005.12);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method of analyzing a communication network that determines a mean drop rate in a device x by polling each device from a network management computer (NMC) which is in communication with the network, and processing signals in the NMC to determine a drop rate D(x), in accordance with:D(x)=((L+(x)−L−(x))/2,and L(x)=1−A(x)where