Patent ID: 7978619
Filing Date: 2011-07-12
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A system for measuring application specific, network performance of a network that supports an application, the network having a central computing device unit, one or more network concentrators coupled to the central computing device unit over a link wherein each network concentrator communicates with the central computing device unit, each network concentrator having a coverage range and a plurality of wireless devices that wirelessly communicate with a network concentrator when the wireless device is in the coverage range of the network concentrator, the system comprising: a unit, within each wireless device, that gathers a received data characteristic for one or more segments of a communications session between the wireless device and one or more network concentrators to generate a set of received data characteristics for each segment of each communications session and a unit that communicates the set of received data characteristic for the one or more segments of the communications session to a central computing device unit; and a performance unit, within the central computing device unit, that generates a performance indication of the network that supports the application based on the set of received data characteristic for the one or more segments of the communications session for the wireless device.