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US 9,960,965 B2Granted
Stateless admission control
AssigneeARRIS Enterprises LLC
InventorsSteven John Krapp, William Turner Hanks
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Abstract
Methods and apparatuses for control admission to network resources are provided. Probationary service flows with a reduced priority are provisionally allowed to use network resources. As the network demonstrates its continued stability by the addition of the new probationary flows, each probationary flow can be re-assigned its original priority thereby promoting the probationary flow to a non-probationary status.
Claims14
A method for admission control to manage network resources, the method comprising:
- receiving a request for activation of a service flow;
- identifying a service flow type associated with the service flow;
- based on the service flow type, determining an assigned priority associated with the service flow;
- automatically activating the service flow as a probationary service flow having a probationary priority for delivering traffic associated with the service flow across a network, wherein the probationary priority is lower than the assigned priority associated with the service flow, and wherein the service flow is given a probationary priority for a temporary duration of time, the temporary duration of time comprising a duration of time from the activation of the service flow until a determination is made that the network is stable;
- determining whether the network is stable as a result of the activation of the service flow at the probationary priority;
- and
- when the determination is made that the network is stable, updating the probationary service flow by promoting the probationary service flow to a conventional service flow and updating the priority given to the service flow from the probationary priority to the assigned priority determined to be associated with the service flow.
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A non-transitory computer readable medium having instructions for causing a computer to execute a method for admission control to manage network resources, the method comprising:
- receiving a request for activation of a service flow;
- identifying a service flow type associated with the service flow;
- based on the service flow type, determining an assigned priority associated with the service flow;
- automatically activating the service flow as a probationary service flow at a first priority for delivering traffic across a network for an application session associated with the service flow, wherein the first priority is a probationary priority that is lower than the assigned priority associated with the service flow, and wherein the service flow is given a probationary priority for a temporary duration of time, the temporary duration of time comprising a duration of time from the activation of the service flow until a determination is made that the network is stable;
- determining whether the network is stable as a result of the activation of the service flow at the probationary priority;
- and
- when the determination is made that the network is stable, updating the probationary service flow by promoting the probationary service flow to a conventional service flow and updating the priority given to the service flow from the probationary priority to the assigned priority determined to be associated with the service flow.
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A system for admission control to manage network resources, the system comprising:
- means for receiving a request for activation of a service flow;
- means for identifying a service flow type associated with the service flow;
- means for determining an assigned priority associated with the service flow based on the service flow type;
- means for automatically adding a probationary service flow at a first priority to a network to deliver traffic across the network for an application session, wherein the first priority is a probationary priority that is lower than the assigned priority associated with the service flow, and wherein the service flow is given a probationary priority for a temporary duration of time, the temporary duration of time comprising a duration of time from the activation of the service flow until a determination is made that the network is stable;
- means for determining whether the network is stable as a result of the addition of the probationary service flow;
- and
- means for assigning a second priority to the added probationary service flow when the network is stable, wherein the second priority is the assigned priority associated with the service flow.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.