公开(公告)号：US09325587B2

公开(公告)日：2016-04-26

申请号：US14112606

申请日：2011-04-18

申请人： Jan Groenendijk ,  Liam Fallon ,  Yangcheng Huang

发明人： Jan Groenendijk ,  Liam Fallon ,  Yangcheng Huang

IPC分类号： H04L12/26 ,  H04L12/24 ,  H04L29/08

CPC分类号： H04L43/022 ,  H04L41/0896 ,  H04L41/12 ,  H04L41/5025 ,  H04L41/5032 ,  H04L41/5067 ,  H04L67/322

摘要： The present invention relates to a method of quality of service monitoring of at least one service in a communication network. The method comprises a first and a second modes. The first mode comprises detecting degradation in quality of service in a communication network by selecting (80) a set of terminal service sessions for providing terminal service session reports; collecting (82) terminal service session information from the selected terminal service sessions; and determining (84) the quality of service in the communication network from the terminal service sessions monitored in the first mode. The second mode, being entered when a degradation of service quality in at least part of terminal service sessions is detected (86), comprises identifying at least one factor causing degradation of service quality in the communication network in steps of determining (88) at least one potential factor associated with terminal service sessions having degraded service quality as a candidate factor potentially causing the observed service quality degradation in at least part of the terminal service sessions; collecting (90) terminal service session information from terminal service sessions associated with at least one candidate factor; and evaluating (92) collected terminal service session information for service sessions associated with a candidate factor to identify whether the candidate factor is a cause of service quality degradation.

摘要翻译： 本发明涉及通信网络中至少一个服务的服务质量监测方法。 该方法包括第一和第二模式。 第一模式包括通过选择（80）一组用于提供终端服务会话报告的终端服务会话来检测通信网络中的服务质量的劣化; 从所选择的终端服务会话收集（82）终端服务会话信息; 以及从所述第一模式中监视的终端服务会话确定（84）所述通信网络中的服务质量。 当检测到至少部分终端服务会话中的服务质量下降时输入的第二模式（86）包括识别至少一个导致通信网络中的服务质量下降的因素，至少确定（88）至少 与终端服务会话相关联的一个潜在因素具有降低的服务质量作为可能导致在终端服务会话的至少一部分中观察到的服务质量恶化的候选因素; 从与至少一个候选因素相关联的终端服务会话收集（90）终端服务会话信息; 以及评估（92）收集与候选因子相关联的服务会话的终端服务会话信息，以识别候选因素是否是服务质量降级的原因。

公开(公告)号：US20140043973A1

公开(公告)日：2014-02-13

申请号：US14112606

申请日：2011-04-18

申请人： Jan Groenendijk ,  Liam Fallon ,  Yangcheng Huang

发明人： Jan Groenendijk ,  Liam Fallon ,  Yangcheng Huang

IPC分类号： H04L12/26

CPC分类号： H04L43/022 ,  H04L41/0896 ,  H04L41/12 ,  H04L41/5025 ,  H04L41/5032 ,  H04L41/5067 ,  H04L67/322

摘要： The present invention relates to a method of quality of service monitoring of at least one service in a communication network. The method comprises a first and a second modes. The first mode comprises detecting degradation in quality of service in a communication network by selecting (80) a set of terminal service sessions for providing terminal service session reports; collecting (82) terminal service session information from the selected terminal service sessions; and determining (84) the quality of service in the evaluate quality of service communication network from the terminal service sessions monitored in the first mode. The second mode, being entered when a degradation of service quality in at least part of terminal service sessions is detected (86), comprises identifying at least one factor causing degradation of service quality in the communication network in steps of determining (88) at least one potential factor associated with terminal service sessions having degraded service quality as a candidate factor potentially causing the observed service quality degradation in at least part of the terminal service sessions; collecting (90) terminal service session information from terminal service sessions associated with at least one candidate factor; and evaluating (92) collected terminal service session information for service sessions associated with a candidate factor to identify whether the candidate factor is a cause of service quality degradation.

摘要翻译： 本发明涉及通信网络中至少一个服务的服务质量监测方法。 该方法包括第一和第二模式。 第一模式包括通过选择（80）一组用于提供终端服务会话报告的终端服务会话来检测通信网络中的服务质量的劣化; 从所选择的终端服务会话收集（82）终端服务会话信息; 以及从在所述第一模式中监视的终端服务会话中确定（84）所述服务质量服务通信网络中的服务质量。 当检测到至少部分终端服务会话中的服务质量下降时输入的第二模式（86）包括识别至少一个导致通信网络中的服务质量下降的因素，至少确定（88）至少 与终端服务会话相关联的一个潜在因素具有降低的服务质量作为可能导致在终端服务会话的至少一部分中观察到的服务质量恶化的候选因素; 从与至少一个候选因素相关联的终端服务会话收集（90）终端服务会话信息; 以及评估（92）收集与候选因子相关联的服务会话的终端服务会话信息，以识别候选因素是否是服务质量降级的原因。

公开(公告)号：US08934371B2

公开(公告)日：2015-01-13

申请号：US13695581

申请日：2010-04-28

申请人： Yangcheng Huang ,  Liam Fallon

发明人： Yangcheng Huang ,  Liam Fallon

IPC分类号： G01R31/08 ,  H04L12/26 ,  G06F17/30 ,  H04L12/18 ,  H04L12/24 ,  H04L29/06

CPC分类号： H04L43/00 ,  G06F17/30539 ,  H04L12/1863 ,  H04L41/0677 ,  H04L41/5009 ,  H04L41/509 ,  H04L65/4076 ,  H04L65/80

摘要： A method of monitoring broadcast or multicast streaming service in a communications network comprising collecting (102) quality feedbacks related to the streaming service, determining (106) a maximum distance to a neighbor in a cluster and a minimum number of values required to form a cluster (106). The method further comprises grouping (108) collected values from the feedbacks into clusters based on the maximum distance to a neighbor in a cluster and the minimum number of values required to form a cluster and then mapping (112) the clusters onto topology of the network and determining (114) location of a problem causing degradation of the service.

摘要翻译： 一种在通信网络中监视广播或多播流服务的方法，包括收集（102）与所述流服务相关的质量反馈（102），确定（106）到群集中的邻居的最大距离以及形成群集所需的最小数量的值 （106）。 该方法还包括基于到群集中的邻居的最大距离和形成群集所需的最小数量，然后将群集映射（112）到群集拓扑结构上 以及确定（114）导致所述服务劣化的问题的位置。

公开(公告)号：US09521050B2

公开(公告)日：2016-12-13

申请号：US13995714

申请日：2010-12-20

申请人： Liam Fallon ,  Yangcheng Huang

发明人： Liam Fallon ,  Yangcheng Huang

IPC分类号： H04L12/26 ,  H04L12/24

CPC分类号： H04L43/00 ,  H04L41/065 ,  H04L41/5032 ,  H04L41/5035 ,  H04L43/08

摘要： The invention relates to a method of and device for service monitoring and a method of and device for service monitoring management. In particular the invention relates to a method of and device for service monitoring of at least one service, and of at least one sub-service associated with the service in which values for service monitoring metric and sub-service monitoring metrics derived from the terminal operational information are monitored and recorded. One or more service monitoring reports, containing service monitoring metric values and sub-service monitoring metric values that are relationally organized to reflect the association between the sub-service and the service, are sent. The invention also relates to a method of and device for service monitoring management in which one or more service monitoring reports, having service monitoring metric values and sub-service monitoring metric values that are relationally organized to reflect the association between the sub-service and the service, are received and stored. The received service monitoring metric values and sub-service monitoring metric values are analyzed with reference to the association between the service and the sub-service to perform service monitoring management. The service monitoring of the claimed invention may be carried out in a terminal or in a proxy or agent service monitoring device.

摘要翻译： 本发明涉及服务监控的方法和设备，以及服务监控管理的方法和设备。 特别地，本发明涉及用于对至少一个服务以及与服务相关联的至少一个子服务的服务监视的方法和设备，其中服务监控的度量和子服务监视度量从终端运行导出 监视和记录信息。 发送一个或多个服务监视报告，其中包含服务监视度量值和关联组织以反映子服务和服务之间的关联的子服务监视度量值。 本发明还涉及一种用于服务监控管理的方法和设备，其中一个或多个服务监视报告具有服务监视度量值和子服务监视度量值，其被相关组织以反映子服务和 服务，被接收和存储。 参考服务和子服务之间的关联来分析接收到的服务监控度量值和子服务监控度量值，以执行服务监控管理。 要求保护的发明的服务监视可以在终端或代理或代理服务监视设备中执行。

公开(公告)号：US20140006612A1

公开(公告)日：2014-01-02

申请号：US13995714

申请日：2010-12-20

申请人： Liam Fallon ,  Yangcheng Huang

发明人： Liam Fallon ,  Yangcheng Huang

IPC分类号： H04L12/26

CPC分类号： H04L43/00 ,  H04L41/065 ,  H04L41/5032 ,  H04L41/5035 ,  H04L43/08

摘要： The invention relates to a method of and device for service monitoring and a method of and device for service monitoring management. In particular the invention relates to a method of and device for service monitoring of at least one service, and of at least one sub-service associated with the service in which values for service monitoring metric and sub-service monitoring metrics derived from the terminal operational information are monitored and recorded. One or more service monitoring reports, containing service monitoring metric values and sub-service monitoring metric values that are relationally organised to reflect the association between the sub-service and the service, are sent. The invention also relates to a method of and device for service monitoring management in which one or more service monitoring reports, having service monitoring metric values and sub-service monitoring metric values that are relationally organised to reflect the association between the sub-service and the service, are received and stored. The received service monitoring metric values and sub-service monitoring metric values are analysed with reference to the association between the service and the sub-service to perform service monitoring management. The service monitoring of the claimed invention may be carried out in a terminal or in a proxy or agent service monitoring device.

摘要翻译： 本发明涉及服务监控的方法和设备，以及服务监控管理的方法和设备。 特别地，本发明涉及用于对至少一个服务以及与服务相关联的至少一个子服务的服务监视的方法和设备，其中服务监控的度量和子服务监视度量从终端运行导出 监视和记录信息。 发送一个或多个服务监视报告，其中包含服务监视度量值和关联组织以反映子服务和服务之间的关联的子服务监视度量值。 本发明还涉及一种用于服务监控管理的方法和设备，其中一个或多个服务监视报告具有服务监视度量值和子服务监视度量值，其被相关组织以反映子服务和 服务，被接收和存储。 参考服务和子服务之间的关联来分析接收到的服务监控度量值和子服务监控度量值，以执行服务监控管理。 要求保护的发明的服务监视可以在终端或代理或代理服务监视设备中执行。

公开(公告)号：US20130297791A1

公开(公告)日：2013-11-07

申请号：US13995710

申请日：2010-12-20

申请人： Liam Fallon ,  Yangcheng Huang

发明人： Liam Fallon ,  Yangcheng Huang

IPC分类号： H04L12/26

CPC分类号： H04L43/08 ,  H04L41/5032 ,  H04L41/509

摘要： The invention relates to a method of and device for service monitoring and a method of and device for service monitoring management. In particular the invention relates to a method of and device for service monitoring wherein terminal operation information is monitored to determine the occurrence of session events of each of a plurality of stages of a user service session. Values for service monitoring metrics 1 for a stage are recorded in response to a session event of that stage. Finally at least one service monitoring report containing service monitoring metric values is sent for each stage of the user service session. The invention also relates to a method of service monitoring management in which one or more service monitoring reports containing service monitoring metric values in respect of the service are received for each stage of the user service session. The received service monitoring metric values for each stage of the user service session are stored in a relationally organised manner based on service session stages and are analysed with reference to the user service session stage to perform service monitoring management.

摘要翻译： 本发明涉及服务监控的方法和设备，以及服务监控管理的方法和设备。 具体地，本发明涉及一种用于服务监视的方法和设备，其中监视终端操作信息以确定用户服务会话的多个阶段中每个阶段的会话事件的发生。 响应于该阶段的会话事件记录用于阶段的服务监视度量1的值。 最后，为用户服务会话的每个阶段发送至少一个包含服务监控度量值的服务监视报告。 本发明还涉及一种服务监控管理方法，其中针对该服务的每个阶段接收到包含关于服务的服务监控度量值的一个或多个服务监视报告。 用户服务会话的每个阶段的接收到的服务监视度量值以基于服务会话阶段的关系组织方式被存储，并且参考用户服务会话阶段进行分析以执行服务监视管理。

公开(公告)号：US20130107741A1

公开(公告)日：2013-05-02

申请号：US13695581

申请日：2010-04-28

申请人： Yangcheng Huang ,  Liam Fallon

发明人： Yangcheng Huang ,  Liam Fallon

IPC分类号： H04L12/26

CPC分类号： H04L43/00 ,  G06F17/30539 ,  H04L12/1863 ,  H04L41/0677 ,  H04L41/5009 ,  H04L41/509 ,  H04L65/4076 ,  H04L65/80

摘要： A method of monitoring broadcast or multicast streaming service in a communications network comprising collecting (102) quality feedbacks related to the streaming service, determining (106) a maximum distance to a neighbour in a cluster and a minimum number of values required to form a cluster (106). The method further comprises grouping (108) collected values from the feedbacks into clusters based on the maximum distance to a neighbour in a cluster and the minimum number of values required to form a cluster and then mapping (112) the clusters onto topology of the network and determining (114) location of a problem causing degradation of the service.

摘要翻译： 一种在通信网络中监视广播或多播流服务的方法，包括收集（102）与所述流服务相关的质量反馈（102），确定（106）到群集中的邻居的最大距离以及形成群集所需的最小数量的值 （106）。 该方法还包括基于到群集中的邻居的最大距离和形成群集所需的最小数量，然后将群集映射（112）到群集拓扑结构上 以及确定（114）导致所述服务劣化的问题的位置。

公开(公告)号：US20100142409A1

公开(公告)日：2010-06-10

申请号：US12520153

申请日：2006-12-21

申请人： Liam Fallon ,  Daryl Parker ,  Francoise Sailhan

发明人： Liam Fallon ,  Daryl Parker ,  Francoise Sailhan

IPC分类号： H04L12/28

CPC分类号： H04L41/044 ,  H04L41/0206

摘要： The present invention relates to a network management system, a network element and a method for managing the network management system, the system operating in a computer or telecommunication network. The network comprises at least one network element that is able to communicate in the network through links. A network management software is contained and run on the network element. According to the present invention the network management software comprises controlling means for each management function or functions that the network element is part of, the controlling means being able to form, reform and/or terminate the topology for the management function. It further comprises register means for each management function or functions that the network element is part of, the register means being able to register and share information about the topology for the management function.

摘要翻译： 本发明涉及网络管理系统，网络元件和用于管理网络管理系统的方法，该系统在计算机或电信网络中运行。 该网络包括能够通过链路在网络中通信的至少一个网络元件。 网络管理软件包含并运行在网元上。 根据本发明，网络管理软件包括用于网络元件为其一部分的每个管理功能或功能的控制装置，所述控制装置能够形成，改造和/或终止用于管理功能的拓扑。 它还包括用于每个管理功能的寄存器装置或网络元件的一部分功能，寄存器装置能够注册和共享用于管理功能的拓扑的信息。

公开(公告)号：US20100020721A1

公开(公告)日：2010-01-28

申请号：US12443715

申请日：2006-10-05

申请人： Daryl Parker ,  Sandra Collins ,  Liam Fallon ,  Samir Ghamri Doudane ,  Yang Cheng Huang ,  Francoise Sailhan

发明人： Daryl Parker ,  Sandra Collins ,  Liam Fallon ,  Samir Ghamri Doudane ,  Yang Cheng Huang ,  Francoise Sailhan

IPC分类号： H04L12/28

CPC分类号： H04W40/30 ,  H04L45/16 ,  H04W40/12 ,  H04W80/04

摘要： The present invention relates to a proactive optimized link state protocol and a node with routing means supporting such a protocol implementing multipoint relaying for distribution of control messages, e.g. comprising hello messages, which are extended and comprise neighbour information, link status information and resource related information, and second control messages, e.g. TC messages comprising information relating to MPR selectors which are extended to also hold information of a shared information repository (4) adapted to hold generic service related information. Internal information repositories (231i, 232, 233) are extended to additionally hold resource related information for neighbours, neighbour links and multipoint relay selectors. The protocol implements cross-layer (21, 22, 23) communication.

摘要翻译： 本发明涉及一种主动优化的链路状态协议和具有路由装置的节点，该路由装置支持这种协议，实现用于分发控制消息的多点中继，例如。 包括hello消息，其被扩展并且包括邻居信息，链路状态信息和资源相关信息，以及第二控制消息。 TC消息包括与MPR选择器有关的信息，该MPR选择器也被扩展以保存适于保持通用服务相关信息的共享信息库（4）的信息。 扩展内部信息库（231,232,233），为邻居，邻居链路和多点中继选择器额外保存资源相关信息。 该协议实现了跨层（21,22,23）的通信。

公开(公告)号：US08886186B2

公开(公告)日：2014-11-11

申请号：US13574700

申请日：2010-01-22

申请人： Szymon Fedor ,  Liam Fallon

发明人： Szymon Fedor ,  Liam Fallon

IPC分类号： H04W88/02 ,  G06F9/44 ,  H04W8/22

CPC分类号： H04W8/22 ,  G06F8/10 ,  G06F8/35 ,  H04L41/0873 ,  H04L41/145

摘要： A method and apparatus for assessing the compatibility of a selected network feature with the network features of an existing telecommunications network 10 comprises providing an abstraction of each network feature in the form of a data model 100 which defines the relationships between any network elements 12 or nodes 27, software elements 13 and software features 14 required for each network feature. Information 19 is then collected about the existing telecommunications network 10 to identity the deployment of the network features in the existing network. This information is then combined with the data model 100 to build a feature compatibility matrix 107 which defines the compatibility of network features in the existing telecommunications network 10. The matrix 107 can then be interrogated with information defining the parameters of the selected feature to be added or upgraded to determine whether the selected feature is compatible with features of the existing network.

摘要翻译： 用于评估所选网络特征与现有电信网络10的网络特征的兼容性的方法和装置包括以数据模型100的形式提供每个网络特征的抽象，其定义任何网络元件12或节点之间的关系 27，每个网络特征所需的软件元件13和软件特征14。 然后收集关于现有电信网络10的信息19，以标识现有网络中的网络特征的部署。 然后将该信息与数据模型100组合以构建特征兼容性矩阵107，其定义了现有电信网络10中的网络特征的兼容性。然后可以用定义要添加的所选特征的参数的信息来询问矩阵107 或升级以确定所选功能是否与现有网络的功能兼容。