Application levels of service over a network
US7877495B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | May 29, 2008 |
| Grant date | Jan 25, 2011 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jul 21, 2029 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L47/803
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Methods, systems, devices, and software are disclosed for providing application levels of service over a network. Embodiments of the invention maintain a list of registered applications (or application providers) that have registered with a network resources provider. Customers of the network resources provider may authenticate some or all of the registered applications, indicating a desire to allow traffic relating to those applications over their access networks. Customers may further set application levels of service with respect to those authenticated applications. Certain embodiments may use the registrations, authentications, service level settings, and/or other related information to generate application service level protocol data. This ASLP data may then be used to make data handling determinations for managing the flow of network traffic according to agreed service levels at the application level.
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