Patent Document ID: 10057151
Application ID: 15235862
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method comprising: estimating, by one or more computing devices, a component bandwidth or component bandwidth probability density of a plurality of individual network components based on a model that characterizes the network components using a bandwidth probability function; predicting, by the one or more computing devices, an end-to-end bandwidth or end-to-end bandwidth probability density of a target path over a network, based on the estimated component bandwidths or bandwidth probability densities of the plurality of individual constituent network components of the target path, the individual constituent network components of the target path not being included amongst observed individual constituent network components of end-end bandwidth experienced on different occasions by multiple past communications occurring over the network; and providing, by the one or more computing devices, the predicted end-to-end bandwidth or bandwidth probability density of the target path to a user terminal, for use as a prediction of a bandwidth or bandwidth probability density for a subsequent communication conducted by the user terminal over the target path.