LORRAINE DENBY
Pilots at Rutgers Ave, Berkeley Heights, NJ

7633942, Dec 15, 2009

Oct 15, 2002

10/270122

Mark J. Bearden - Woodstock GA, US
Lorraine Denby - Berkeley Heights NJ, US
Bengi Karacali - Basking Ridge NJ, US
Jean Meloche - Madison NJ, US
David Thomas Stott - Basking Ridge NJ, US
Shane M. Sullivan - Plano TX, US
Clayton Whitehead - Little Elm TX, US
Kenneth Kane - W. Sayville NY, US

Avaya Inc. - Basking Ridge NJ

H04L 12/56

370392, 37039521, 709224

A system for monitoring traffic on a network first discovers the network so as to map the various devices and links in the network. Statistics are then gathered from various points in the network relating to quality of service, and especially loads on the network devices. Synthetic calls are generated at selected points of the network while monitoring the network. This data is then stored and displayed in a manner that is easy for the operator to analyze, with more detailed displays being available through the use of a mouse or keystrokes.

2004025, Dec 16, 2004

Jun 12, 2003

10/459948

Akshay Adhikari - Bernardsville NJ, US
Scott Bianco - Suffern NY, US
Lorraine Denby - Berkeley Heights NJ, US
Colin Mallows - Flemington NJ, US
Jean Meloche - Madison NJ, US
Balaji Rao - Basking Ridge NJ, US
Shane Sullivan - Plano TX, US
Yehuda Vardi - Watchung NJ, US

G01R031/08

370/252000, 370/241000

Techniques are disclosed for improved monitoring and analysis of VoIP communications, multimedia communications or other types of network traffic in a network-based communication system. In accordance with one aspect of the invention, endpoint devices of the network-based communication system are configurable so as to collectively implement a distributed monitoring and analysis system which does not require a centralized testing server or other centralized controller. Distributed test units associated with the endpoint devices may be utilized in implementing the distributed monitoring and analysis system, and are preferably configured to support a web-based user interface providing access to measurement data. The endpoint devices may be advantageously organized into a hierarchy comprising a plurality of zones, with each of the endpoint devices belonging to at least one zone. For each zone, one of the endpoint devices may be designated as a zone leader for controlling the periodic generation of communications between selected endpoint devices that belong to subzones of that zone in the hierarchy.

2003009, May 15, 2003

Oct 15, 2002

10/270011

Mark Bearden - Woodstock GA, US
Lorraine Denby - Berkeley Heights NJ, US
Bengi Karacali - Basking Ridge NJ, US
Jean Meloche - Madison NJ, US
David Stott - Basking Ridge NJ, US

H04M001/64

379/088080

A system visualizes and generates reports from stored data, concerning various measured parameters related to a network carrying call traffic. The network is displayed in an easily recognized arrangement, with various parameters being indicated by different shapes and colors for each device on the network. The parameters are changed to indicate the status of the network at different times. More detailed information about a parameter, a device or a path between devices may be obtained simply using a mouse or keystrokes. A variety of different types of detailed displays allows the operator to troubleshoot problems in the network.

7583667, Sep 1, 2009

Dec 16, 2004

11/014546

Akshay Adhikari - Basking Ridge NJ, US
Amit Agarwal - Milpitas CA, US
Lorraine Denby - Berkeley Heights NJ, US
Russell C. Jones - San Jose CA, US
Rod D. Livingood - Cupertino CA, US
Jean Meloche - Madison NJ, US
Anupam Rai - San Jose CA, US
Wayne Sam - Verona NJ, US

Avaya Inc. - Basking Ridge NJ

H04L 12/28, H04L 12/56

370389

Techniques for determining a problem location or otherwise characterizing a network comprising a plurality of processing elements, including at least one processing element associated with performance of a packet encapsulation operation of an encapsulation protocol. The packet encapsulation operation is performed on a test packet to generate an encapsulated packet, the test packet having a time to live (TTL) value and an identifier. In conjunction with performance of the packet encapsulation operation, the TTL value and the identifier of the test packet are copied to a header of the encapsulated packet. The encapsulated packet is transmitted, and a determination is made as to whether a reply packet has been received responsive to transmission of the encapsulated packet. The reply packet, if any, is processed to obtain information utilizable in determining the problem location or otherwise characterizing the network. By way of example, these operations may be repeated, for subsequent test packets with increasing TTL values, until an amount of router hop information sufficient to determine the problem location is obtained.

7408885, Aug 5, 2008

Aug 19, 2003

10/643275

Lorraine Denby - Berkeley Heights NJ, US
Bengi Karacali - Basking Ridge NJ, US
Jean Meloche - Madison NJ, US

Avaya Inc. - Basking Ridge NJ

H04L 12/26

370252, 370231

A network monitoring and analysis system is configured to include a root cause analysis function that permits the automatic determination of performance problem locations in a network of a communication system comprising a plurality of endpoint devices. Test communications are generated in the system in accordance with a selected pattern, which may be based on a flow matrix, and end-to-end path measurement data is collected utilizing the generated test communications. The end-to-end path measurement data is transformed to produce a plurality of performance indicators comprising a performance indicator for each of a plurality of non-end-to-end paths defined at least in part by the selected pattern.

7352705, Apr 1, 2008

Sep 3, 2004

10/933646

Akshay Arun Adhikari - Basking Ridge NJ, US
Karen Louise Barrett - Chatswood, AU
Lorraine Denby - Berkeley Heights NJ, US
Neil Hepworth - Artarmon, AU
Jean Meloche - Madison NJ, US

Avaya Technology Corp. - Basking Ridge NJ

G06F 11/00

370248, 370242

A method and apparatus for testing a digital network having a plurality of subnetworks by determining by one of a plurality of user endpoint devices assigned to one of the plurality of subnetworks upon the one of the plurality of user endpoint devices being idle that the one of the plurality of user endpoint devices should perform the functions of a testing user endpoint device for the one of the plurality of subnetworks; identifying the one of plurality of user endpoint devices to a server or a distributed system of servers as a testing user endpoint device; obtaining the identifies of other testing user endpoint devices in other ones of the plurality of subnetworks from the server; and testing the network by transmission of test packets to other ones of the testing user endpoint devices in the other ones of the plurality of subnetworks.

2008020, Aug 28, 2008

Feb 26, 2007

11/678940

Lorraine Denby - Berkeley Heights NJ, US
Jean Meloche - Madison NJ, US
John R. Tuck - Berkeley Heights NJ, US

H04L 12/28

370254

Route asymmetry is detected in a network by running a route tracing program to trace routes between a first element of the network and a second element of the network. The route tracing program need be run at only a single network element, such as the first network element. Forward and reverse routes between the first and second network elements are identified as asymmetric if performance data from the route tracing program indicates a significant deviation from an expected monotonic characteristic as a function of time-to-live values of respective packets transmitted by the route tracing program.

7602728, Oct 13, 2009

Jun 12, 2003

10/460700

Akshay Adhikari - Bernardsville NJ, US
Lorraine Denby - Berkeley Heights NJ, US
Jean Meloche - Madison NJ, US
Balaji Rao - Basking Ridge NJ, US

Avaya Inc. - Basking Ridge NJ

H04L 1/14

370248, 370252, 370392, 709224

Network topology information is determined in a network-based communication system by generating communications between, for example, selected pairs of endpoint devices each associated with a network. A given one of the communications is sent from a first one of the endpoint devices to a second one of the endpoint devices and returned from the second endpoint device to the first endpoint device. Information contained in the communication as received at the first endpoint device from the second endpoint device is processed to determine network topology information characterizing at least a portion of the network.

8543681, Sep 24, 2013

Oct 15, 2002

10/270335

Mark J. Bearden - Woodstock GA, US
Lorraine Denby - Berkeley Heights NJ, US
Bengi Karacali - Basking Ridge NJ, US
Jean Meloche - Madison NJ, US
David Thomas Stott - Basking Ridge NJ, US

Volli Polymer GmbH LLC - Dover DE

G06F 15/173, G06F 15/16

709224, 709218, 709236, 709242, 709249

A system discovers the topology of devices in a network, such as all of the layer-2 and layer-3 devices, including routers and switches. The devices are mapped, as well as the links that join them. The devices are polled using SNMP requests. Route tables are derived from each router to determine addresses of the devices. A spanning tree process is used to discover layer-2 devices. Connections between layers are then discovered. Where information is incomplete, an undiscovered router cloud is recognized.

8184546, May 22, 2012

Feb 29, 2008

12/039878

Lorraine Denby - Berkeley Heights NJ, US
Jean Meloche - Madison NJ, US

Avaya Inc. - Basking Ridge NJ

G06F 11/00, H04J 1/16, H04L 1/00

370250, 370352, 370401

An IP telephone or other endpoint device in a network is configured to support a reporting mode of operation that may be entered, for example, responsive to user entry of a report command via a user interface of the endpoint device. In one aspect, the endpoint device stores call information in one or more buffers. Responsive to an instruction to enter a reporting mode, the endpoint device sends contents of the buffer(s) to a report server over the network. The endpoint device may reinitialize the buffer(s) responsive to an instruction to leave the reporting mode.