Patent ID: 8891392

Claim:
An automated method for analyzing a plurality of network messages received by a network testing device, the automated method comprising: during a current window of time: receiving from a target network device a network message associated with an original network message; determining a latency value for the received network message; comparing the determined latency value with at least one threshold latency value; incrementing a first counter without adjusting a second counter or incrementing the second counter without adjusting the first counter based on the comparison of the determined latency value with the at least one threshold latency value, the first counter being associated with a first range of latency values and the second counter being associated with a second range of latency values; and repeating the receiving, determining, comparing, and incrementing steps for a plurality of original network messages; and at the end of the current window of time: storing the first and second counter values resulting from the receiving, determining, comparing, incrementing, and repeating steps for the plurality of original network messages.