Management of Shared Access Network
AssigneeComcast Cable Communications, LLC
InventorsRichard Woundy, Chris Bastian
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Abstract
Information from multiple sources can be communicated to a policy server. Based on that information, the policy server can determine allocation of bandwidth, transmission priority and/or other network resources based on preferences and/or service selections provided by a subscriber and communicate information about those determinations to other network elements for policy implementation. The information provided to a policy server for determining network resource allocation can include information about one or more applications executing at a customer equipment device, information about access network bandwidth usage, information about services for which one or more devices is authorized, and/or information about network conditions.
Claims17
A method comprising:
- receiving activity data for an account of a user, the user account corresponding to at least one access device in a network, the user account further corresponding to at least one data processing device communicating through the access device, the activity data indicating at least data related to first and second application programs executing on the at least one data processing device;
- receiving provisioning information for the user account, the provisioning information including prioritization information related to the first and second application programs;
- and
- determining, based at least in part on the activity data and the received provisioning information, that data communications in the network for the first application program should have higher priority than data communications in the network for the second application program.
A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium storing machine-executable instructions for performing a method comprising:
- receiving activity data for an account of a user, the user account corresponding to at least one access device in a network, the user account further corresponding to at least one data processing device communicating through the access device, the activity data indicating at least data related to first and second application programs executing on the at least one data processing device;
- receiving provisioning information for the user account, the provisioning information including prioritization information related to the first and second application programs;
- and
- determining, based at least in part on the activity data and the received provisioning information, that data communications in the network for the first application program should have higher priority than data communications in the network for the second application program.
An apparatus comprising:
- at least one processor;
- and
- at least one memory, wherein at least one of the at least one memory and the at least one processor stores instructions executable by the at least one processor to perform operations that include
- receiving activity data for an account of a user, the user account corresponding to at least one access device in a network, the user account further corresponding to at least one data processing device communicating through the access device, the activity data indicating at least data related to first and second application programs executing on the at least one data processing device,
- receiving provisioning information for the user account, the provisioning information including prioritization information related to the first and second application programs, and
- determining, based at least in part on the activity data and the received provisioning information, that data communications in the network for the first application program should have higher priority than data communications in the network for the second application program.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.