Patent ID: 9236559
Filing Date: 2016-01-12
CPC Classification: H01L,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method for detecting quality induced terminations of media streams of real-time communication sessions within a packet-switched network, the method comprising: monitoring by a midpoint passive monitoring system, connected to the packet-switched network, packets of a plurality of media streams of the real-time communication sessions between endpoints, wherein monitoring comprises generating, for pre-configured time intervals, quality data records for each monitored media stream, wherein each quality data record is indicative of an estimated media stream quality of the respective media stream within the respective pre-configured time interval, detecting a termination of one of the media streams; determining that said termination is a quality induced termination of said one terminated media stream when a predetermined threshold number of the lastly generated quality data records for said one terminated media stream are each indicative of an estimated media stream quality for the respective pre-configured time interval below a media stream quality threshold level.