Patent ID: 8369230
Filing Date: 2013-02-05
Classification: H04L,H04M

Abstract:
1. A method for determining an end-to-end measure of quality for a service provided in a packet-switched network operated by a service provider, comprising: obtaining, by a server of the service provider, network measurement data for network components within the packet-switched network utilized to provide the service; acquiring, by the server of the service provider, network estimation data for an access network and an access link outside of the packet-switched network and operated by a different service provider utilized to provide the service, wherein the network estimation data is directly obtained by network probes sent from the packet-switched network, wherein the network probes comprise time stamped requests used to measure a tendency of the access network to exhibit jitter and to estimate characteristics of the access links including at least bandwidth capacity; and calculating, by the server of the service provider, the end-to-end measure of quality for the service from the network measurement data and the network estimation data, wherein the calculating comprises: