Telephony network optimization method and system

• US 20030081748A1
• Filed: 10/30/2001
• Published: 05/01/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 10/30/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Comcast IP Holdings I LLC (Comcast Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Lipinski, Greg J.
• Granted Patent: US 6,873,694 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 379/201.02
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2856 Access arrangements, e.g. Internet access asynchronous transfer mode networks H04L12/5601; broadband local area networks H04L12/2801; optical access or distribution networks H04Q11/0067; access to open networks H04L12/5691; digital subscriber line end-user equipment and bit-level processing of data on a PSTN-based network H04M11/00; home network gateways H04L12/2834; wireless access networks H04W
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2876 Handling of subscriber policies group policies management H04L41/0893

Abstract

A telephony network optimization system and method comprises receiving a request from an application to provide to the application service on a telephony network. The method also comprises automatically allocating to the application a channel on the telephony network to provide balanced network service in response to telephony parameters.

Claims

1. A telephony network optimization method, comprising:

receiving a request from an application to provide to the application service on a telephony network; and

automatically allocating to the application a channel on the telephony network to provide balanced network service in response to telephony parameters.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising deriving the telephony parameters in response to contextual information.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising deriving the contextual information using heuristic adaptation.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising deriving the telephony parameters for the application if the application does not include the telephony parameters.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the telephony parameters are selected from the group consisting of a priority, connection hold time, request persistence, dial-up prompt and application timeout.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising deferring the request to a next immediate request if the telephony parameters indicate a deferred priority.

7. A telephony network optimization application, comprising:

application software resident on a computer-readable medium and operable to receive a request from an appliance application to provide to the appliance application service on a telephony network; and

automatically allocate to the appliance application a channel on the telephony network to provide balanced network service in response to telephony parameters.

8. The application of claim 7, wherein the appliance application and the computer-readable medium are each operatively associated with an appliance coupled to the telephony network.

9. The application of claim 7, further comprising the application software further operable to derive the telephony parameters in response to contextual information.

10. The application of claim 9, further comprising the application software further operable to derive the contextual information using heuristic adaptation.

11. The application of claim 7, further comprising the application software further operable to derive the telephony parameters for the appliance application if the appliance application does not include the telephony parameters.

12. The application of claim 7, wherein the telephony parameters are selected from the group consisting of a priority, connection hold time, request persistence, dial-up prompt and application timeout.

13. The application of claim 7, further comprising the application software further operable to defer the request to a next immediate request if the telephony parameters indicate a deferred priority.

14. A system for telephony network optimization, comprising:

an appliance operable to connect to telephony network; and

a network manager resident on the appliance and operable to receive a request from an application resident on the appliance to provide to the application service on the telephony network, and

automatically allocate to the application a channel on the telephony network to provide balanced network service in response to telephony parameters.

15. The system of claim 14, further comprising the network manager further operable to derive the telephony parameters in response to contextual information.

16. The system of claim 15, further comprising the network manager further operable to derive the contextual information using heuristic adaptation.

17. The system of claim 14, further comprising the network manager further operable to derive the telephony parameters for the application if the application does not include the telephony parameters.

18. The system of claim 14, further comprising the network manager further operable to defer the request to a next immediate request if the telephony parameters indicate a deferred priority.

19. The system of claim 18, wherein the next immediate request is received from a second application operatively associated with the appliance.

20. The system of claim 14, wherein the telephony parameters comprise at least one of the group consisting of a priority, connection hold time, request persistence, dial-up prompt and application timeout.

21. A telephony network optimization method, comprising:

receiving a request from an application to provide to the application service on a telephony network; and

automatically deferring the request to a next immediate request in response to a deferred priority parameter.

22. A telephony network optimization application, comprising:

application software resident on a computer-readable medium and operable to receive a request from an appliance application to provide to the appliance application service on a telephony network; and

automatically allocate to the appliance application a channel on the telephony network to provide balanced network service in response to a deferred priority parameter.