Patent ID: 9331907
Filing Date: 2016-05-03
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: determining a first set of bandwidth utilization data comprising a bandwidth utilization datum for each of a plurality of links in a network; determining a second set of bandwidth utilization data comprising a bandwidth utilization datum for each of one or more media paths in the network, wherein each media path comprises a subset that is more than one, and less than all, of the links in the network; and comparing, in a computing device, at least some of the first set of bandwidth utilization data to at least some of the second set of bandwidth utilization data, thereby comparing at least one datum for one of the links with at least one datum for a subset of more than one of the links, and thereby providing information useful for monitoring the network, and obtaining call flow data from one or more network elements, the call flow data including at least a count of calls in a given time period, wherein the call flow data is used in determining at least one of the first set of bandwidth utilization data and the second set of bandwidth utilization data.