Methods, systems, and devices for determining COS level

• US 20060164978A1
• Filed: 01/21/2005
• Published: 07/27/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 01/21/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: AT&T Corporation (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Corporation (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Werner, Carl E., Rauscher, Frank L.
• Granted Patent: US 7,539,132 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/229
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0896 Bandwidth or capacity management, i.e. automatically increasing or decreasing capacities flow or congestion control using dynamic resource allocation, e.g. in-call renegotiation, H04L47/76

Abstract

Certain exemplary embodiments comprise a method comprising a plurality of activities, comprising: based on an analysis of historical information regarding packet traffic conveyed on a local area network associated with a customer, the packet traffic also conveyed on a wide area network managed by a service provider and coupled to the local area network: receiving information relating to a requested change in capacity provisioned for packet traffic conveyed on the wide area network; and automatically changing the capacity provisioned for packet traffic conveyed on the wide area network.

Claims

1. A method comprising a plurality of activities, comprising:

repeatedly and automatically;

analyzing historical information regarding packet traffic conveyed on a local area network associated with a customer, the packet traffic associated with a predetermined entity and also conveyed on a wide area network managed by a service provider and coupled to the local area network; and

requesting from the service provider an on-demand change in capacity provisioned for packet traffic conveyed on the wide area network.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

specifying the entity associated with the packet traffic.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

specifying a type of packets comprised by the packet traffic.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

specifying an application associated with the packet traffic.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

gathering the historical information.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the historical information relates to a quantitative measurement of packets comprised by the packet traffic.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the historical information relates to a quantitative measurement of packets comprised by the packet traffic.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

associating at least a portion of the historical information with a Class of Service level.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

providing a notification when adequate capacity is not available on the wide area network for at least a portion of the packet traffic.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining a desired Class of Service profile for at least a portion of the packet traffic.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining a desired Class of Service level for at least a portion of the packet traffic.

12. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining a desired bandwidth for the packet traffic.

13. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

automatically and dynamically provisioning the requested change in capacity for packet traffic conveyed on the wide area network.

14. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

automatically changing a capacity for at least a portion of the packet traffic conveyed on the wide area network.

15. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

automatically changing a Class of Service level for at least a portion of the packet traffic conveyed on the wide area network.

16. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

automatically changing a Class of Service Profile for at least a portion of the packet traffic conveyed on the wide area network.

17. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

automatically changing a bandwidth for at least a portion of the packet traffic conveyed on the wide area network.

18. A machine-readable medium storing instructions for activities comprising:

repeatedly and automatically;

analyzing historical information regarding packet traffic conveyed on a local area network associated with a customer, the packet traffic associated with a predetermined entity and also conveyed on a wide area network managed by a service provider and coupled to the local area network; and

requesting from the service provider an on-demand change in capacity provisioned for packet traffic conveyed on the wide area network.

19. A method comprising a plurality of activities, comprising:

based on an analysis of historical information regarding packet traffic conveyed on a local area network associated with a customer, the packet traffic associated with a predetermined entity and also conveyed on a wide area network managed by a service provider and coupled to the local area network;

receiving information relating to a requested change in capacity provisioned for packet traffic conveyed on the wide area network; and

automatically changing the capacity provisioned for packet traffic conveyed on the wide area network.

20. A machine-readable medium storing instructions for activities comprising:

based on an analysis of historical information regarding packet traffic conveyed on a local area network associated with a customer, the packet traffic associated with a predetermined entity and also conveyed on a wide area network managed by a service provider and coupled to the local area network;

receiving information relating to a requested change in capacity provisioned for packet traffic conveyed on the wide area network; and

automatically changing the capacity provisioned for packet traffic conveyed on the wide area network.