Patent ID: 9674057
Date: 2017-06-06
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. A system that monitors user plane traffic associated with a network, the system comprising: a user plane (“UP”) record aggregator that receives first data associated with a user plane packet and related to performance of data transmission at an individual transaction level, a session level, a UP traffic flow level, and an application level, the first data being network management information selected by a user plane network element from second data based on satisfaction of a condition, wherein the condition is a request for a complete data packet, a notification of a transmission failure, exceeding a threshold for latency, delay, or transmission time, or satisfying an interval criteria for sampling UP packets based on time, quantity of UP packets in the UP traffic flow, or quantity of predetermined data elements in the UP traffic flow, the second data being stored in a plurality of information fields, the plurality of information fields being associated with the user plane network element, the second data being obtained by the user plane packet in accordance with a user plane network function, the user plane record aggregator interfacing directly with the user plane network element; and an aggregation device that determines a characteristic associated with the user plane traffic from the first data.