Patent ID: 7120122
Filing Date: 2006-10-10
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for managing performance information for a communication between communication system terminal endpoints (TEs) communicating over an Internet Protocol (IP) network, comprising the steps of: transmitting a Diagnostic Configuration Message (DCM) from a Diagnostic Supervisor (DS) to at least one TE, wherein the DS is capable of being coupled to the at least one TE; generating Diagnostic Messages (DMs) at the at least one TE based on diagnostic information concerning IP network transmissions in which the at least one TE participates, the DCM instructing the at least one TE how to format and under what criteria to transmit the DMs; transmitting the DMs from the at least one TE to at least one DS; and calculating a value for a quality of service of the communication based on the DMs; wherein the quality of service is based on communication parameters including at least one of a number of collisions, jitter, amount of lost packets and amount of network usage; and wherein the quality of service is further based on weighting the communication parameters, the weighting based on an importance associated with each communication parameter and wherein the method further includes selectively adjusting one of a plurality of different transmission parameters of each TE via a real time response manager, the adjustments including adjustments to route, parameter thresholds and packet size and wherein the adjustment is made based on the calculated quality of service.