Gerald H Gorsegner

US Patent:

20070064598, Mar 22, 2007

Filed:

Aug 10, 2006

Appl. No.:

11/463835

Inventors:

Ricky Nooner - Broomfield CO, US
Gerald Gorsegner - Denver CO, US
Danny Rock - Superior CO, US
Patrick Callahan - Thornton CO, US

Assignee:

LEVEL 3 COMMUNICATIONS, INC. - Broomfield CO

International Classification:

H04L 12/26
H04L 1/00
G01R 31/08
G06F 11/00
G08C 15/00
H04J 1/16
H04J 3/14

US Classification:

370229000

Abstract:

An embodiment of a method for use in performing interoperability testing between two network architectures includes forming multiple transaction signatures that each characterizes a communication transaction conducted over the two networks and analyzing each of the transaction signatures to determine if the transaction signature matches a previously classified pattern. The method may further include generating a report identifying each of the communication transactions and indicating that each of the communication transactions is classified with a classification associated with a previously classified pattern or are of unknown classification. Another method includes receiving a transaction signature composed of multiple transaction elements, and determining whether the received transaction signature corresponds to a previously identified transaction signature pattern. If the transaction signature does not correspond to a previously identified transaction signature pattern, a new transaction signature pattern is created, and classified as one of a plurality of classifications indicative of completion or failure of the communication transaction.