Patent ID: 8824313

Claim:
A method comprising: obtaining a first set of measurements by a first agent, the first set of measurements being associated with a quality-of-service metric of a communication path between the first agent and a second agent measured at a first time; sending a first update associated with the first set of measurements from the first agent to a central server at a second time later than the first time; obtaining a second set of measurements by the first agent, the second set of measurements being associated with the quality-of-service metric of the communication path measured at a third time later than the second time; and sending a second update associated with the second set of measurements from the first agent to the central server at a fourth time later than the third time when the first agent determines that a distribution of the first set of measurements differs from a distribution of the second set of measurements, wherein the second update comprises at least one of (i) a report characterizing the first set of measurements, (ii) a portion of the first set of measurements, (iii) a code characterizing the first set of measurements, and (iv) a message characterizing the first set of measurements.