Patent ID: 9419877
Filing Date: 2016-08-16
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. A call processing time measurement device comprising at least a node A that is a measurement main body, a node B and a node C that are neighboring to the node A within a network, and a node D that is a measurement object, wherein the node A comprises: a measurement-object message detection section configured to detect a measurement-object message and to transmit the measurement-object message to the node B; a prior transmission instruction section configured to request to transmit a first Ping message that is set to be returned by the node C after the measurement-object message has been processed by the node C, when informed that the measurement-object message has been detected by the measurement-object detection section; an intermediate transmission instruction section configured to request to transmit a second Ping message that is set to be returned by the node D after the measurement-object message has been processed by the node D, when informed that the measurement-object message has been detected by the measurement-object detection section; a Ping message transmission section configured to transmit the first Ping message to the node B after transmitting the measurement-object message in response to the request from the prior transmission instruction section, and to transmit the second Ping message to the node B after transmitting the measurement-object message in response to the request from the intermediate transmission instruction section; a Pong message reception time record section configured to record a reception time of a first Pong message that is a return of the transmitted first Ping message and a reception time of a second Pong message that is a return of the transmitted second Ping message; and a processing time calculation section configured to calculate a difference between the recorded reception times of the first Pong message and the second Pong message, wherein each of the first Ping message and the second Ping message uses a MaxForwards parameter according to Session Initiation Protocol (SIP); and wherein the node B transfers the first Ping message, the second Ping message, and the measurement-object message to the node C, and the node C transfers the second Ping message and the measurement-object message to the node D and transmits the first Pong message to the node B, and wherein the node D receives the measurement-object node message and the second Ping message from the node C, transfers the measurement-object message to a next node E after completing processing of the measurement-object message, processes the second Ping message after processing the measurement-object message, and transmits the second Pong message to the node C, and wherein the processing time calculation section is further configured to measure a measurement-object message processing time in the node D based on the calculated difference between the recorded reception times of the first Pong message and the second Pong message, and to use the measured processing time to determine whether the node D is causing a call processing delay.