Method and system for creating a quality of service message

• US 7,302,682 B2
• Filed: 03/09/2005
• Issued: 11/27/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 04/11/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Turkoglu, Ali Ediz
• Primary Examiner(s): DINH, KHANH Q
• Application Number:
  US11/078,968
• Publication Number:
  US 20050198295A1
• Time in Patent Office: 993 Days
• Field of Search: 709/224, 709/226, 709/223, 709/234, 709/203, 709/227, 709/249, 370/389, 370/338, 345/326, 345/329, 717/174
• US Class Current: 717/174
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0896 Bandwidth or capacity management, i.e. automatically increasing or decreasing capacities flow or congestion control using dynamic resource allocation, e.g. in-call renegotiation, H04L47/76
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/22 comprising specially adapted graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5045 Making service definitions prior to deployment
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/50 Testing arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/61 taking into account QoS or priority requirements

Abstract

A test program creates a variety of types of quality of service messages to allow a user to test the response of one or more network devices to the variety of messages. The test program displays a representation of a quality of service message on a user interface. The representation may be implemented as a tree having a branch for each section of the quality of service message. Each branch may be expanded to reveal one or more values of one or more parameters stored in the represented section. By entering a value on the user interface, the user can change the value of a parameter in represented message. The test program also allows a user to intentionally create an invalid quality of service message, such as by inserting an invalid value into one or more fields, deleting one or more required values, adding one or more invalid sections, or by deleting one or more required sections. The test program also automatically creates one or more invalid sections at the request of the user.

Claims

1. A graphical user interface for creating a customized quality of service message comprising:

a message representation means for representing a quality of service message to be created, wherein the message representation means comprises at least one section representation means for representing a section of the quality of service message, wherein the section representation means comprises at least one means for allowing a user to edit the value of a parameter to be included in the section of the quality of service message in order to customize the quality of service message, wherein the customized quality of service message is transmitted to one or more devices in a network for testing a response of the one or more devices, wherein the quality of service message is customized to be intentionally invalid.

2. The graphical user interface of claim 1, wherein the message representation means is selected from the group consisting of a tree, a list, a set of tiles, and a set of fields.

3. The graphical user interface of claim 1, wherein the section representation means is selected from the group consisting of a branch, a tile, and a column.

4. The graphical user interface of claim 1, further comprising a means for displaying a source and a destination IP address of the created quality of service message.

5. The graphical user interface of claim 1, further comprising a means for displaying a list of one or more messages to be transmitted.

6. The graphical user interface of claim 1, further comprising a means for allowing the user to select the number of times one more created QOS messages are to be transmitted.

7. The graphical user interface of claim 1, further comprising a means for allowing the user to select the amount of delay between transmissions of one or more quality of service messages.

8. The graphical user interface of claim 1, further comprising a means for allowing the user to specify the type of quality of service message to be created.

9. The graphical user interface of claim 1, further comprising a means for allowing the user to specify a DSBM (designated subnet bandwidth manager) multicast address.

10. A graphical user interface for creating a customized quality of service message, the graphical user interface comprising:

a message representation representing a quality of service message to be created, wherein the message representation comprises at least one section representation representing a section of the quality of service message, wherein the section representation allows a user to edit the value of a parameter to be included in the section of the quality of service message in order to customize the quality of service message, wherein the customized quality of service message is transmitted to one or more devices in a network for testing a response of the one or more devices, wherein the quality of service message is customized to be intentionally invalid.