Patent ID: 8462642

Claim:
A method of analysis for measuring Internet telephone quality and interference, the method comprising the steps of: making a call to a first Internet Protocol (IP) phone ( 200 a ) by a measurement instrument ( 250 ), or making a call to the measurement instrument ( 250 ) by the first IP phone ( 200 a ), determining the direction of the call between the measurement instrument ( 250 ) and the first IP phone ( 200 a ), responding to the call from the first IP phone ( 200 a ) by the measurement instrument ( 250 ) when the measurement instrument ( 250 ) receives the call from the first IP phone ( 200 a ), automatically responding to the call from the measurement instrument ( 250 ) using an automatic response unit ( 207 ) by the first IP phone ( 200 a ) when the first IP phone ( 200 a ) receives the call from the measurement instrument ( 250 ), sending a packet containing an IP address of the first IP phone ( 200 a ) to the measurement instrument ( 250 ), and looping back voice and video data received from the measurement instrument ( 250 ) to the measurement instrument ( 250 ) through an IP data loopback means ( 204 ), measuring two-way quality by the measurement instrument ( 250 ) when data received from the first IP phone ( 200 a ) is looped-back data, comparing the looped-back voice and video data from the first IP phone ( 200 a ) with the originally sent data and analyzing Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) packets ( 242 ) and Real-time Transport control Protocol (RTCP) packets ( 244 ) received over an IP network ( 240 ), obtaining the IP address of the first IP phone ( 200 a ) from the packet containing the IP address of the first IP phone ( 200 a ) by the measurement instrument ( 250 ), or obtaining an IP address of an IP sharing device ( 220 a ) when the first IP phone ( 200 a ) is connected to a private network, or a hub connected to the private network, identifying interference location by determining whether the interference has occurred on the IP network ( 240 ) through first stage loopback between a jitter buffer ( 201 ) and the IP network ( 240 ) when interference is detected in the previous measuring step of the two-way quality measurement, determining whether the interference has occurred at the jitter buffer ( 201 ) through second stage loopback between the jitter buffer ( 201 ) and a Digital Signal Processor (DSP) codec ( 203 ) when the interference is not detected through first stage loopback, checking the interference occurrence through third stage loopback between the DSP codec ( 203 ) and a Plain Old Telephone Service (POTS) network ( 205 ) when the interference is not detected through second stage loopback, and performing the quality and interference analysis for the section of the IP network ( 240 ) by pinging and trace routing to the IP address obtained at the previous obtaining step when the interference is determined to have occurred on the IP network ( 240 ).