Bandwidth Reservation for Authenticated Applications
AssigneeQwest Communications International Inc.
InventorsGilman R. Stevens, Charles I. Cook, Thomas Schwengler
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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 manage network traffic to accord with the application levels of service.
Claims20
A communication device, comprising:
- a first communication interface;
- a second communication interface;
- a processor;
- and
- a set of instructions executable by the processor to:
- receive network traffic via the first communication interface;
- identify an application associated with a portion of the network traffic;
- and
- route the portion of the network traffic over the second communication interface, based at least in part on the identified application associated with the portion of the network traffic.
In a communication device comprising a first communication interface, a second communication interface, and a processor, a method comprising:
- receiving network traffic via the first communication interface;
- identifying, with the processor, an application associated with a portion of the network traffic;
- and
- routing the portion of the network traffic over the second communication interface, based at least in part on the identified application associated with the portion of the network traffic.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.