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Method and device for quality of service regulation

  • US 10,673,651 B2
  • Filed: 01/31/2019
  • Issued: 06/02/2020
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/24/2017
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method comprising:

  • at a gateway node of an operator network;

    obtaining a quality of service request to instantiate a tunnel to communicatively couple the gateway node of the operator network and a gateway node of a guest service provider for a data flow from the guest service provider to a user device that traverses the operator network, wherein the guest service provider is external to the operator network and the operator network comprises one or more access networks to which the user device is connected;

    determining whether the quality of service request satisfies tunneling criteria that includes intrinsic information that corresponds to a characterization of network resources of the operator network and extrinsic information that quantitatively characterizes at least one of an allotment or a service criterion of network resources of the operator network that are allocated to the guest service provider;

    instantiating the tunnel to communicatively couple the gateway node of the operator network and the gateway node of the guest service provider for the data flow between the operator network and the guest service provider in response to determining that the quality of service request satisfies the tunneling criteria; and

    routing the data flow through the tunnel in order to transmit the data flow to the user device.

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