Patent ID: 9736045
Date: 2017-08-15
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method of determining a characteristic of a communication link, the method comprising: determining, by a device and based on an access restriction including information associated with performing a backhaul quality estimation (BQE), an allowability for accessing a server based on receiving, from the server, information indicating whether the server is available for BQE; transmitting, by the device and based on determining the allowability, a request for a communication from the server; receiving, by the device, the communication from the server, over the communication link, in response to the request; computing, by the device, a target number of bytes of the communication to receive from the server while performing the BQE; monitoring, by the device, an amount of the communication received from the server while performing the BQE; terminating, by the device and based on monitoring the amount of the received communication, the communication when a received number of bytes exceeds the target number of bytes; and determining, by the device, a characteristic of the communication link based on a portion of the communication received from the server before termination,