Method and system for creating a quality of service message

• US 7,554,925 B2
• Filed: 09/20/2005
• Issued: 06/30/2009
• 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): Cho; Hong
• Assistant Examiner(s): SOL, ANTHONY M
• Application Number:
  US11/230,449
• Publication Number:
  US 20060036749A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,379 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 370/242
• 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 method for creating a quality of service message having one or more sections, the method comprising:

displaying a representation of the quality of service message;

responsive to a user input, adding a representation of an invalid section to the representation of the quality of service message;

creating the quality of service message from the representation of the quality of service message wherein the quality of service message includes the invalid section created from the representation of the invalid section; and

responsive to a user input, sending the quality of service message to a network device to test the ability of the network device to respond to the quality of service message wherein the quality of service message includes the invalid section.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein computer-executable instructions for performing the steps of the method are stored on a computer-readable medium.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the invalid section comprises a valid section header and a body, the body comprising invalid data.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising adding the quality of service message to a list of a plurality of quality of service messages.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising, responsive to a user input, sending the plurality of quality of service messages to a network device to test the ability of the network device to respond to the plurality of quality of service messages including the invalid section.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising, responsive to a user input, setting a count specifying the number of times the plurality of quality of service messages is sent to the network device.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising, responsive to a user input, setting a delay time specifying the amount of time to delay between each sending of the plurality of quality of service messages to the network device.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the representation of the quality of service message comprises a tree view including a branch for each section of the quality of service message.

9. A computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions stored thereon that, when executed by a processor, create a data structure comprising a plurality of classes, each class defining a type of section to be included in a quality of service message, the plurality of classes including at least one invalid section class wherein the quality of service message is created by the processor and sent to a network device to test the ability of the network device to respond to the quality of service message wherein the quality of service message includes an invalid section based on the invalid section class.

10. The computer-readable medium of claim 9, wherein each of the plurality of classes inherits from a single parent class.

11. The computer-readable medium of claim 9, wherein each class defines a type of section for inclusion in a Resource Reservation Protocol message and the at least one invalid section class defines an invalid Resource Reservation Protocol section.

12. A method for allowing a user to set up a quality of service message, the method comprising:

displaying a user interface through which the user can specify a quality of service message type;

displaying in the user interface a representation of a quality of service message of the quality of service message type; and

displaying in the user interface a selection means for allowing the user to select at least one option for the quality of service message type; and

displaying in the user interface the representation of the quality of service message according to the selected option.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein computer-executable instructions for performing the steps of the method are stored on a computer-readable medium.