Patent ID: 8526314

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: a communication service server to provide a service to a user device; a service provisioning server to initiate sending of provisioning data for the service to the user device, and to activate the service at the communication service server based on a service test result, the provisioning data comprising a service test parameter to instruct the user device to automatically initiate a test of the service to generate the service test result; and a service testing server to: establish a bearer path to perform the test of the service responsive to a request received from the user device to initiate the test of the service; establish a companion real time control protocol channel to report the service test result to the service provisioning server, the companion real time control protocol channel to exchange real time packet stream performance information associated with the service test result; send a BYE message in response to receiving a threshold number of packets, the BYE message to instruct the user device to stop sending packets; and refrain from sending duplicate test results when repeated packets are received from the user device after the BYE message is sent.