SIGNALING-LESS DYNAMIC CALL SETUP AND TEARDOWN BY UTILIZING OBSERVED SESSION STATE INFORMATION

• US 20150249601A1
• Filed: 04/29/2015
• Published: 09/03/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/23/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: TOFIGHBAKHSH, MOSTAFA
• Granted Patent: US 9,749,234 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5067 Customer-centric QoS measurements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0835 One way packet loss
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0858 One way delays
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/087 Jitter
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0894 Packet rate
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 45/302 Route determination based on requested QoS
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 45/70 Routing based on monitoring results
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/08 Testing, supervising or monitoring using real traffic
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/02 Traffic management, e.g. flow control or congestion control
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 40/02 Communication route or path selection, e.g. power-based or shortest path routing
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 40/246 Connectivity information discovery

Abstract

Signaling-less call setup and teardown by employing observed Quality of Experience (QoE) and resource demands. A system provides an environment for supersonic treatment of observed QoE and Quality of Service (QoS) demands for mobile applications. Specifically, a monitoring component is employed to determine session state information associated with a traffic flow, which includes observed QoE and resource demand data. The session state information is stored in a shared memory location and can be analyzed to modify and/or create a network policy for the traffic flow. The network policy is applied to one or more traffic flows to minimize signaling exchanges between a communication network and a mobile station.

Claims

1. An apparatus, comprising:

a processor; and

a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising;

accessing session state information associated with a data session associated with a device and a network device of a communication network;

analyzing the session state information; and

updating a network policy associated with the data session based on a result of the analyzing, wherein the network policy comprises a routing policy that determines route data for data associated with the data session.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the network policy is a first network policy, and wherein the operations further comprise:

deleting a second network policy based on the result of the analyzing.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the network policy is a first network policy, and wherein the operations further comprise:

creating a second network policy based on the result of the analyzing.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the accessing comprises accessing at least one of a packet delivery rate or a lost-packet rate associated with the data session.

5. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the accessing comprises accessing resource demand data associated with the data session.

6. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the accessing comprises accessing preference data related to an application associated with the device.

7. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the updating comprises updating routing policy data to facilitate delay of a transmission of first notification data indicative of a notification of a message available to the device.

8. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the updating further comprises updating the routing policy data to facilitate aggregating the first notification data with second notification data indicative of a notification of a second message available to the device, and wherein the aggregating results in aggregated notification data.

9. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the updating further comprises updating the routing policy data to facilitate transmission of the aggregated notification data based on a condition of the communication network.

10. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the updating further comprises updating the routing policy data to facilitate periodic transmission of the aggregated notification data.

11. A method, comprising:

determining, by a system comprising a processor, session state information associated with a data session associated with a device and a network device of a communication network;

analyzing, by the system, a portion of the session state information; and

updating, by the system, a network policy associated with the data session based on a result of the analyzing, wherein the network policy comprises a routing policy that determines route data for data associated with for the data session.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the determining comprises monitoring at least one of a packet delivery rate or a lost-packet rate associated with the data session.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the updating comprises updating routing policy data to facilitate delaying transmission of data associated with the data session.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the delaying comprises delaying the transmission of the data for a defined period.

15. The method of claim 13, wherein the delaying comprises delaying the transmission of the data until an operating mode of the communication network satisfies an operating mode criterion.

16. The method of claim 13, wherein the delaying comprises delaying the transmission of the data until a defined number of messages for the device are available at a server device of the communication network.

17. A computer-readable storage device comprising executable instructions that, in response to execution, cause a device comprising a processor to facilitate operations, comprising:

accessing session state information associated with a data session associated with the device and a network device of a communication network;

analyzing the session state information; and

updating a network policy associated with the data session based on a result of the analyzing, wherein the network policy comprises a routing policy that determines route data for data associated with the data session.

18. The computer-readable storage device of claim 17, wherein the accessing comprises accessing the session state information periodically or based on bandwidth data indicative of bandwidth available at the communication network.

19. The computer-readable storage device of claim 17, wherein the operations further comprise:

synchronizing an update to the session state information between the device and a second device that generates the update.

20. The computer-readable storage device of claim 17, wherein the updating comprises updating routing policy data to facilitate:

aggregating notification data indicative of respective notifications of messages available to the device, the aggregating results in aggregated notification data; and

transmitting the aggregated notification data based on a condition of the communication network.