Patent ID: 9130830
Filing Date: 2015-09-08
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: receiving, by at least one computing device from an error-reporting device of a network, a message indicating that at least one error associated with a data stream has been detected at the error-reporting device receiving the data stream; determining, by the at least one computing device, a path through which the data stream is transmitted, the path being associated with the error-reporting device based on a logical representation of a multicast tree, comprising a plurality of paths, of the network; determining, for each link of a plurality of links of the path, a cumulative number of errors detected during each overlapping time period of a plurality of overlapping time periods having different lengths; and outputting data representative of the respective cumulative number of errors and the corresponding overlapping time period, of the plurality of overlapping time periods, for each link of the plurality of links of the path.