Methods, systems, and devices for determining COS level

• US 7,539,132 B2
• Filed: 01/21/2005
• Issued: 05/26/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 01/21/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: AT&T Corporation (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Werner, Carl E., Rauscher, Frank L.
• Primary Examiner(s): Shah, Chirag G
• Assistant Examiner(s): Zhou, Yong
• Application Number:
  US11/040,214
• Publication Number:
  US 20060164978A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,586 Days
• Field of Search: 370/395.21, 370/395.43, 370/230.1, 370/238, 370/241, 370/252, 370/254, 379/120, 379/243, 455/452.2, 455/403, 707/103, 707/104.1, 709/203
• 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;

requesting from the service provider an on-demand change in capacity provisioned for packet traffic conveyed on the wide area network, the packet traffic marked to indicate a priority level from a predetermined set of priority levels before the packet traffic enters the wide area network; and

via a Class Of Service Determination &

Provisioning Support System, automatically changing a capacity for at least a portion of the packet traffic conveyed on the wide area network security between the Class Of Service Determination &

Provisioning Support System and a provisioning system of a service provider supported via explicit Simple Network Management Protocol community strings.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

specifying the entity associated with the packet traffic, the change in capacity responsive to a choice of provided tiered class of service mapping profiles made by the customer, the class of service mapping profiles based on usage and cost.

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; and

the historical information is classified to the priority level from the predetermined set of priority levels.

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, the Class of Service profile determined responsive to a configuration menu provided to a customer, the configuration menu adapted to modify a Class Of Service Determination &

Provisioning Support System based on a specific implementation of a Differentiated Services Code Point traffic classification method.

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

16. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

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

17. A machine-readable medium storing instructions for activities implemented by a processor 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;

requesting from the service provider an on-demand change in capacity provisioned for packet traffic conveyed on the wide area network, the packet traffic marked to indicate a priority level from a predetermined set of priority levels before the packet traffic enters the wide area network; and

via a Class Of Service Determination &

Provisioning Support System, automatically changing a capacity for at least a portion of the packet traffic conveyed on the wide area network, security between the Class Of Service Determination &

Provisioning Support System and a provisioning system of a service provider supported via explicit Simple Network Management Protocol community strings.

18. 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

via a Class Of Service Determination &

Provisioning Support System, automatically changing the capacity provisioned for packet traffic conveyed on the wide area network, the packet traffic marked to indicate a priority level from a predetermined set of priority levels before the packet traffic enters the wide area network, security between the Class Of Service Determination &

Provisioning Support System and a provisioning system of a service provider supported via explicit Simple Network Management Protocol community strings.

20. The method of claim 18, further comprising:

specifying the entity associated with the packet traffic, the change in capacity responsive to a choice of provided tiered class of service mapping profiles made by the customer, the class of service mapping profiles based on usage and cost.

19. A machine-readable medium storing instructions for activities implemented by a processor 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

via a Class Of Service Determination &

Provisioning Support System, automatically changing the capacity provisioned for packet traffic conveyed on the wide area network, the packet traffic marked to indicate a priority level from a predetermined set of priority levels before the packet traffic enters the wide area network, security between the Class Of Service Determination &

Provisioning Support System and a provisioning system of a service provider supported via explicit Simple Network Management Protocol community strings.