| US 7,508,815 B2 | ||
| Method and system for facilitating network troubleshooting | ||
| Jean Pierre Lapeyre, San Diego, Calif. (US); Sergey Vladimirovich Kryuchkov, Morrisville, N.C. (US); Gary A. Meyer, Raleigh, N.C. (US); and Jay Stewart, Raleigh, N.C. (US) | ||
| Assigned to Acterna LLC, Germantown, Md. (US) | ||
| Filed on Mar. 31, 2004, as Appl. No. 10/814,543. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2005/0226233 A1, Oct. 13, 2005 | ||
| Int. Cl. H04L 12/66 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 370—352 [370/252] | 27 Claims |
| 1. A computer program product being embodied on a computer readable hardware structure for using voice data traffic to reproduce
a user experience for facilitating troubleshooting at least one of a plurality of VoIP stations, said computer program product
comprising computer-executable instructions for:
retrieving packets of said voice data traffic associated with the at least one of the VoIP stations;
identifying time stamps associated with said retrieved packets;
determining an amount of jitter associated with each of said retrieved packets at least partially dependently upon said identified
time stamps;
determining whether each of said retrieved packets will fit into a jitter buffer at least partially dependently upon said
determined amounts of jitter;
dropping select ones of said retrieved packets dependently upon said determining whether each of said retrieved packets will
fit into said jitter buffer; and,
filling a buffer with at least select ones of said retrieved data packets not dropped.
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