METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CREATING REAL-TIME LATENCY GRAPHS

摘要

The inventive mechanism manages packet delay values that a network incurs in transported data packets. The mechanism uses a plurality of bins for maintaining the number of times that delay values fall within the range of a particular bin. The mechanism also uses a storage array for maintaining delay values that do not fall with the range o f the bins. For each delay value that is received, the mechanism determines whether the delay val ue falls within the bin range. If so, the mechanism increments the number of a particular bi n into which the delay value falls within. If not, the mechanism stores the delay value in th e storage array and effectively doubles the size of the range of the bins. The mechanism will th en effectively re- slot the values into the scaled bins. This allows for the numbers in the bin s to used to form graphs detailing the latency of the network for display to a user.