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- Nachgewiesen in: USPTO Patent Grants
- Sprachen: English
- Patent Number: 9,559,926
- Publication Date: January 31, 2017
- Appl. No: 14/705051
- Application Filed: May 06, 2015
- Assignees: Adtran Inc. (Huntsville, AL, US)
- Claim: 1. A method, comprising: receiving, for a given interval, a Synthetic Loss Measurement (SLM) report for a network managed entity that includes at least two network nodes; receiving, for the given interval, a Loss Measurement Message (LMM) report for the network managed entity; selecting, for the given interval and from the SLM and LMM reports, a reporting measurement for the network managed entity based, at least in part, on a frame rate of data transmitted over the network managed entity during the given interval or an occurrence of a specified network event during the given interval; and reporting, for the given interval, frame loss information for the network managed entity based on the selected reporting measurement.
- Claim: 2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the reporting measurement is selected based on the frame rate of data.
- Claim: 3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the reporting measurement is selected further based on a predetermined measurement accuracy metric of the SLM message or a transmission rate of SLM messages.
- Claim: 4. The method of claim 3 , further comprising: determining a minimum number of SLM messages required to achieve the predetermined measurement accuracy metric; determining a number of transmitted SLM messages; and determining that the number of transmitted SLM messages is smaller than the minimum number of SLM messages required to achieve the predetermined measurement accuracy, wherein selecting a reporting measurement for the network managed entity comprises: in response to determining that the number of transmitted SLM messages is smaller than the minimum number of SLM messages, not selecting the SLM report as the reporting measure.
- Claim: 5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the reporting measure is selected based on the occurrence of a specified network event.
- Claim: 6. The method of claim 5 , wherein the specified network event comprises switching a primary network managed entity to a secondary network managed entity.
- Claim: 7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: determining that an SLM accuracy has met a required accuracy threshold; and determining, for the given interval, that an LMM accuracy is below the required accuracy threshold based on the frame rate of data transmitted over the network managed entity being less than a frame rate required for the LMM to provide the required accuracy threshold, wherein selecting a reporting measurement for the network managed entity comprises: in response to the SLM accuracy having met the required accuracy and the LMM accuracy being below the required accuracy threshold, selecting the SLM report as the reporting measurement for the network managed entity for the given interval.
- Claim: 8. A device, comprising: a memory; and at least one hardware processor interoperably coupled with the memory and configured to: receive, for a given interval, a Synthetic Loss Measurement (SLM) report for a network managed entity that includes at least two network nodes; receive, for the given interval, a Loss Measurement Message (LMM) report for the network managed entity; select, for the given interval and from the SLM and LMM reports, a reporting measurement for the network managed entity based, at least in part, on a frame rate of data transmitted over the network managed entity during the given interval or an occurrence of a specified network event during the given interval; and report, for the given interval, frame loss information for the network managed entity based on the selected reporting measurement.
- Claim: 9. The device of claim 8 , wherein the reporting measurement is selected based on the frame rate of data.
- Claim: 10. The device of claim 8 , wherein the reporting measurement is selected further based on a predetermined measurement accuracy metric of the SLM message or a transmission rate of SLM messages.
- Claim: 11. The device of claim 10 , wherein the at least one hardware processor is further configured to: determine a minimum number of SLM messages required to achieve the predetermined measurement accuracy metric; determine a number of transmitted SLM messages; and determine that the number of transmitted SLM messages is smaller than the minimum number of SLM messages required to achieve the predetermined measurement accuracy, wherein selecting a reporting measurement for the network managed entity comprises: in response to determining that the number of transmitted SLM messages is smaller than the minimum number of SLM messages, not select the SLM report as the reporting measure.
- Claim: 12. The device of claim 8 , wherein the reporting measure is selected based on the occurrence of a specified network event.
- Claim: 13. The device of claim 12 , wherein the specified network event comprises switching a primary network managed entity to a secondary network managed entity.
- Claim: 14. The device of claim 8 , wherein the at least one hardware processor is further configured to: determine that an SLM accuracy has met a required accuracy threshold; and determine, for the given interval, that an LMM accuracy is below the required accuracy threshold based on the frame rate of data transmitted over the network managed entity being less than a frame rate required for the LMM to provide the required accuracy threshold, wherein selecting a reporting measurement for the network managed entity comprises: in response to the SLM accuracy having met the required accuracy and the LMM accuracy being below the required accuracy threshold, select the SLM report as the reporting measurement for the network managed entity for the given interval.
- Claim: 15. A non-transitory, computer-readable medium storing computer-readable instructions executable by a computer and configured to: receive, for a given interval, a Synthetic Loss Measurement (SLM) report for a network managed entity that includes at least two network nodes; receive, for the given interval, a Loss Measurement Message (LMM) report for the network managed entity; select, for the given interval and from the SLM and LMM reports, a reporting measurement for the network managed entity based, at least in part, on a frame rate of data transmitted over the network managed entity during the given interval or an occurrence of a specified network event during the given interval; and report, for the given interval, frame loss information for the network managed entity based on the selected reporting measurement.
- Claim: 16. The non-transitory, computer-readable medium of claim 15 , wherein the reporting measurement is selected based on the frame rate of data.
- Claim: 17. The non-transitory, computer-readable medium of claim 15 , wherein the reporting measurement is selected further based on a predetermined measurement accuracy metric of the SLM message or a transmission rate of SLM messages.
- Claim: 18. The non-transitory, computer-readable medium of claim 17 , wherein the computer-readable instructions are further configured to: determine a minimum number of SLM messages required to achieve the predetermined measurement accuracy metric; determine a number of transmitted SLM messages; and determine that the number of transmitted SLM messages is smaller than the minimum number of SLM messages required to achieve the predetermined measurement accuracy, wherein selecting a reporting measurement for the network managed entity comprises: in response to determining that the number of transmitted SLM messages is smaller than the minimum number of SLM messages, not select the SLM report as the reporting measure.
- Claim: 19. The non-transitory, computer-readable medium of claim 15 , wherein the reporting measure is selected based on the occurrence of a specified network event.
- Claim: 20. The non-transitory, computer-readable medium of claim 15 , wherein the computer-readable instructions are further configured to: determine that an SLM accuracy has met a required accuracy threshold; and determine, for the given interval, that an LMM accuracy is below the required accuracy threshold based on the frame rate of data transmitted over the network managed entity being less than a frame rate required for the LMM to provide the required accuracy threshold, wherein selecting a reporting measurement for the network managed entity comprises: in response to the SLM accuracy having met the required accuracy and the LMM accuracy being below the required accuracy threshold, select the SLM report as the reporting measurement for the network managed entity for the given interval.
- Claim: 21. A telecommunications device, comprising: a telecommunications interface configured to transmit and receive data over a telecommunications network; and hardware processing components interoperably coupled with the telecommunications interface and configured to: receive, for a given interval, a Synthetic Loss Measurement (SLM) report for a network managed entity that includes at least two network nodes; receive, for the given interval, a Loss Measurement Message (LMM) report for the network managed entity; select, for the given interval and from the SLM and LMM reports, a reporting measurement for the network managed entity based, at least in part, on a frame rate of data transmitted over the network managed entity during the given interval or an occurrence of a specified network event during the given interval; and generate, to the portal server, for the given interval, frame loss information for the network managed entity based on the selected reporting measurement.
- Patent References Cited: 2012/0236734 September 2012 Sampath ; 2013/0329579 December 2013 Missett
- Primary Examiner: Ho, Duc C
- Attorney, Agent or Firm: Fish & Richardson P.C.
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