Policy rule management for QoS provisioning

• US 8,316,144 B2
• Filed: 03/09/2011
• Issued: 11/20/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 11/07/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Alcatel-Lucent SA (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Alcatel-Lucent SA (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Levillain, Phillippe, Hanson, Raymond, Helmerich, Lawrence
• Primary Examiner(s): Chan, Wing F.
• Assistant Examiner(s): WOO, ANDREW M
• Application Number:
  US13/044,249
• Publication Number:
  US 20110158092A1
• Time in Patent Office: 622 Days
• Field of Search: 709/222, 709/230, 709/224, 709/221, 709/220
• US Class Current: 709/230
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0213 Standardised network management protocols, e.g. simple network management protocol [SNMP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0893 Assignment of logical groups to network elements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0894 Policy-based network configuration management
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/22 comprising specially adapted graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5003 Managing SLA; Interaction between SLA and QoS
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5054 Automatic deployment of services triggered by the service manager, e.g. service implementation by automatic configuration of network components
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5067 Customer-centric QoS measurements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/10 Flow control; Congestion control
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/13 in a LAN segment, e.g. ring or bus
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/2408 for supporting different services, e.g. a differentiated services [DiffServ] type of service
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/2416 Real-time traffic
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1069 Session establishment or de-establishment
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1101 Session protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/80 Responding to QoS

Abstract

Described herein is a policy-based Internet Protocol (IP) network wherein the Quality of Service (QoS) provisioning across various network devices is managed by policy processing via a user interface including a graphic user interface. The user interface incorporates information made available by a server, such as lightweight directory access protocol (LDAP) server, having a repository, and thereby allows for a consistent set up voice-over IP devices, video devices and network data devices with minimal entries by the user. Further, the user interfaces allows for efficient policy creation and editing.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a user interface coupled to a processor and associated memory operable as a graphic user interface configured to allow a user to set up quality of service (QoS) provisioning for at least a plurality of voice-over Internet Protocol (VOIP) devices, and to display one or more selected IP phone subnets, that include voice-supported subnets, an indication of a current QoS policy for each displayed subnet and an indicator to apply a new QoS policy to each displayed subnet; and

a network policy server, accessed by the user, comprising a processor and associated memory operable for provisioning QoS related policies for the plurality of voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP) devices during set up.