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US 7,907,970 B2Granted
Providing quality of service for various traffic flows in a communications environment
AssigneeQUALCOMM Incorporated
InventorsVincent D. Park, Georgios Tsirtsis, Alan William O'Neill, M. Scott Corson
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Abstract
The claimed subject matter relates to providing appropriate QoS treatment to one or more traffic flows associated with a terminal, wherein the QoS treatment is defined within a profile assigned to the terminal and implemented when the terminal requests access to a network. An access mode can receive identifying indicia associated with the terminal and relays such indicia to an authentication and authorization server (AAS). The AAS can thereafter provide the access node with a profile that defines QoS treatment to associate with one or more traffic flows related to the terminal.
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A method for configuring QoS with respect to a terminal, comprising:
- receiving identifying indicia associated with the terminal;
- and
- subsequently delivering a profile to an access node that is communicatively coupled to the terminal after receipt of the identifying indicia, the profile including:
- a first service class element and filter rule pair corresponding to an egress traffic service relating to egress traffic from an access node to a subscriber, said first service class element and filter rule pair including:
- i) a first service class element that includes parameters that prescribe a first QoS treatment and ii) a first set of one or more filter rules that identify an egress traffic flow to be provided the first QoS treatment;
- and
- a second service class element and filter rule pair corresponding to an ingress traffic service relating to ingress traffic from a subscriber to an access node, said second service class element and filter rule pair including:
- i) a second service class element that includes parameters that prescribe a second QoS treatment and ii) a second set of one or more filter rules that identify an ingress traffic flow to be provided the second QoS treatment.
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A communications apparatus, comprising:
- means for receiving identifying indicia associated with a wireless terminal that is requesting access to one or more network services;
- and
- means for subsequently delivering a profile to an access node that is communicatively coupled to the terminal after receipt of the identifying indicia, the profile including:
- a first service class element and filter rule pair corresponding to an egress traffic service relating to egress traffic from an access node to a subscriber, said first service class element and filter rule pair including:
- i) a first service class element that includes parameters that prescribe a first QoS treatment and ii) a first set of one or more filter rules that identify an egress traffic flow to be provided the first QoS treatment;
- and
- a second service class element and filter rule pair corresponding to an ingress traffic service relating to ingress traffic from a subscriber to an access node, said second service class element and filter rule pair including:
- i) a second service class element that includes parameters that prescribe a second QoS treatment and ii) a second set of one or more filter rules that identify an ingress traffic flow to be provided the second QoS treatment.
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An apparatus comprising:
- a non-transitory memory device having stored thereon machine-executable instructions for control a machine to:
- receive an identity of at least one of a terminal and a subscriber;
- and
- deliver a profile assigned to the at least one of the terminal and the subscriber to a base station, wherein the profile includes:
- a first service class element and filter rule pair corresponding to an egress traffic service relating to egress traffic from an access node to a subscriber, said first service class element and filter rule pair including:
- i) a first service class element that includes parameters that prescribe a first QoS treatment and ii) a first set of one or more filter rules that identify an egress traffic flow to be provided the first QoS treatment;
- and
- a second service class element and filter rule pair corresponding to an ingress traffic service relating to ingress traffic from a subscriber to an access node, said second service class element and filter rule pair including:
- i) a second service class element that includes parameters that prescribe a second QoS treatment and ii) a second set of one or more filter rules that identify an ingress traffic flow to be provided the second QoS treatment.
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A communications apparatus comprising:
- at least one processor configured to:
- receive identifying indicia associated with a wireless terminal that is requesting access to one or more network services;
- and
- subsequently deliver a profile to an access node that is communicatively coupled to the terminal after receipt of the identifying indicia, the profile including:
- a first service class element and filter rule pair corresponding to an egress traffic service relating to egress traffic from an access node to a subscriber, said first service class element and filter rule pair including:
- i) a first service class element that includes parameters that prescribe a first QoS treatment and ii) a first set of one or more filter rules that identify an egress traffic flow to be provided the first QoS treatment;
- and
- a second service class element and filter rule pair corresponding to an ingress traffic service relating to ingress traffic from a subscriber to an access node, said second service class element and filter rule pair including i) a second service class element that includes parameters that prescribe a second QoS treatment and ii) a second set of one or more filter rules that identify an ingress traffic flow to be provided the second QoS treatment;
- and
- a memory coupled to said at least one processor.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.