Network Path Selection by Customer Premises Equipment
AssigneeCenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC
InventorsJade Kerr, Clinton Smoyer, Andrew Cook, Michael Morrissey, Mohit Mathur
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Abstract
A system and method for providing a user of communications services with free market based pricing may include providing for communications over one of multiple network paths serviced by multiple respective communications service providers via at least one communications network. One of the network paths over which to communicate based on current pricing from the multiple communications service providers may be selected and communications may be performed over the selected network path.
Claims20
A method of determining a network path for communication for a customer premise equipment (CPE), the method comprising:
- receiving, at the CPE, network information for a plurality of network paths between the CPE and the Internet, the network information comprising bandwidth occupancy information, and quality of service information;
- selecting, with the CPE one of the plurality of network paths, based on the network information and one or more user preferences;
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- communicating, by the CPE, over the selected network path.
A customer premise equipment (CPE) configured to:
- receive network information for a plurality of network paths between the CPE and the Internet, the network information comprising bandwidth occupancy information, and quality of service information;
- select one of the plurality of network paths, based on the network information and one or more user preferences;
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- communicate over the selected network path.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.