Method and Apparatus for Providing Differentiated Service Levels in a Communication Network
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for automatically adapting a service level for a service consumed by a terminal user in a communication network, using a service level control system (308,312,400). A service usage analyser (308,402) collects information on service usage of the user, and estimates the user with respect to his/her service usage based on features of a usage pattern extracted from the collected service usage information. A subscription policy manager (312,412) then adapts the service level for service usage based on the user estimation, by adjusting or introducing a corresponding rule or policy in the user'"'"'s subscription profile (304). The user will then consume the service with the new adapted service level.
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42 Claims
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22. A method of adapting a service level for a service consumed by a terminal user in a communication network, comprising the following steps, executed automatically in a service level control system:
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collecting information on service usage by the user; extracting features of a usage pattern of the user from the collected service usage information; estimating the user with respect to his/her service usage based on the extracted usage pattern features, by applying a machine learning algorithm on data of the extracted usage pattern features; and adapting the service level of said service, based on the result from said user estimating step, by adjusting or introducing a corresponding rule or policy in the user'"'"'s subscription profile that impacts the resulting service quality by enforcing said rule or policy in the communication network whenever the user invokes the service, wherein the service is consumed by said user with the adapted service level. - View Dependent Claims (23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35)
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36. A service level control system for adapting a service level for a service consumed by a terminal user in a communication network, comprising:
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a service usage analyzer configured to collect information on service usage of the user, and estimate the user with respect to his/her service usage based on features of a usage pattern extracted from the collected service usage information; and a subscription policy manager configured to adapt the service level for service usage based on the user estimation by adjusting or introducing a corresponding rule or policy in the user'"'"'s subscription profile that impacts the resulting service quality by enforcing said rule or policy in the communication network whenever the user invokes the service, such that the service is consumed with the new adapted service level. - View Dependent Claims (37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42)
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