Policy rule management for QoS provisioning

• US 9,118,694 B2
• Filed: 10/08/2012
• Issued: 08/25/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 11/07/2001
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Alcatel-Lucent SA (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Alcatel-Lucent SA (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Levillain, Philippe, Hanson, Raymond, Helmerich, Lawrence
• Primary Examiner(s): Chan, Wing F
• Assistant Examiner(s): Woo, Andrew
• Application Number:
  US13/646,912
• Publication Number:
  US 20130034093A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,051 Days
• Field of Search: 709/220, 709/230
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 graphical user interface (GUI) configured to,

allow a user to set up and control a combination of network and QoS policy services selected from the group consisting of at least bandwidth usage, virtual local area network identification, differentiated services code point selection, IP type of service and quality of service (QoS) provisioning for at least a plurality of voice-over Internet Protocol (VOIP) phone subnets that include voice-supported subnets associated with a plurality of VOIP devices in a policy-based IP network,

display one or more selected VOIP phone subnets that include voice-supported subnets, an indication of a current QoS policy for at least one displayed subnet, and a mode editing indicator to allow the user to create and edit QoS policies for a plurality of VOIP devices in the policy-based IP network associated with the at least one displayed subnet, and

apply an appropriate policy from management information bases (MIBs) to the plurality of VOIP devices in the policy-based IP network associated with the at least one displayed subnet.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the GUI is configured to allow the user to set up data devices.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the GUI is configured to allow the user to set up video devices.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the GUI is configured to allow the user to set up QoS provisioning for the plurality of devices using entries comprising lightweight directory access protocol and server port numbers.