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Method and apparatus of storing policies for policy-based management of quality of service treatments of network data traffic flows

  • US 6,463,470 B1
  • Filed: 08/18/1999
  • Issued: 10/08/2002
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/26/1998
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method of integrating a network with policies representing quality of service treatments of network data flows for network devices, comprising the steps of:

  • creating and storing information structures representing one or more of the policies representing quality of service treatments of network data flows for network devices;

    creating and storing application information that associates one or more traffic flows generated by an application program, including information identifying one or more points at which an application generates the traffic flows;

    receiving device QoS information that defines one or more quality of service treatments that the network device may apply to data processed by the network device;

    based on the device QoS information and the application information, determining one or more processing policies that associate the traffic flows with the quality of service treatments;

    creating and storing one or more mappings of the application information to the quality of service treatments that may be used to generate the quality of service value when the application program generates traffic flows.

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