Signaling-less dynamic call setup and teardown by utilizing observed session state information

• US 9,749,234 B2
• Filed: 04/29/2015
• Issued: 08/29/2017
• 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
• Primary Examiner(s): Huynh, Dung B
• Application Number:
  US14/699,187
• Publication Number:
  US 20150249601A1
• Time in Patent Office: 853 Days
• 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 first data sessions between user devices and a network device of a network, wherein the session state information comprises quality of experience data that has been determined based on an aggregation of data obtained via input interfaces of the user devices; and

based on a result generated by analyzing the session state information, updating a network policy associated with a second data session between a user device of the user devices and the network device, wherein the updating the network policy comprises modifying route data to generate an updated route for a transmission of data during the second data session, wherein the updating comprises updating the network policy to facilitate an aggregation of notification data indicative of respective notifications of messages available to the user device, wherein the aggregation of the notification data results in aggregated notification data and wherein the aggregated notification data is directed to the user device based on a condition of the network.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first data sessions and the second data session have been assigned a common category.

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 a first data session of the first data sessions.

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

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

7. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the updating comprises updating the network policy to facilitate a delay of a transmission of the aggregated notification data.

8. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the session state information comprises preference data indicative of a preference associated with the network device.

9. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the session state information comprises preference data indicative of a preference associated with the user device.

10. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the updating further comprises updating the network policy to facilitate a periodic transfer of the aggregated notification data.

11. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise:

facilitating the transmission of the data via the updated route.

12. A method, comprising:

determining, by a system comprising a processor, session state information associated with first data sessions initiated between user equipments and a network device of a network, wherein the session state information comprises quality of experience data that has been determined based on combining user input data received via input interfaces of the user equipments; and

based on a result of analyzing a portion of the session state information, updating, by the system, policy data indicative of a network policy associated with a second data session between a user equipment of the user equipments and the network device, wherein the network policy comprises a routing policy that is employable to determine a route for transferring data associated with the second data session, wherein the updating comprises updating the policy data to facilitate an aggregation of notification data indicative of respective notifications of messages available to the user equipment, wherein the aggregation of the notification data results in aggregated notification data and wherein the aggregated notification data is to be directed to the user equipment based on a condition of the network.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the determining comprises monitoring a rate of lost packets associated with a first data session of the first data sessions.

14. The method of claim 12, wherein the updating comprises updating the policy data to facilitate delaying a transmission of data associated with a first data session of the first data sessions.

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

16. The method of claim 14, wherein the delaying comprises delaying the transmission of the data until an operating mode associated with devices of the network is determined to satisfy an operating mode criterion.

17. The method of claim 14, wherein the delaying comprises delaying the transmission of the data until a defined number of messages for the user equipment are available at a server device of the network.

18. A non-transitory machine readable storage medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:

obtaining session state information associated with first data flows between mobile devices and a network device of a communication network, wherein the session state information comprises quality of experience data that has been determined based on aggregating user input data received via input interfaces of the mobile devices;

analyzing the session state information; and

based on a result of the analyzing, modifying policy data representing a network policy associated with a second data flow between a mobile device of the mobile devices and the network device, wherein the network policy comprises a routing policy that is employable to determine a path for routing for data associated with the second data flow, wherein the modifying the policy data comprises modifying the policy data to facilitate an aggregation of notification data indicative of respective notifications of messages available to the mobile device, wherein the aggregation of the notification data results in aggregated notification data and wherein the aggregated notification data is directed to the mobile device based on a condition of the communication network.

19. The non-transitory machine readable storage medium of claim 18, wherein the obtaining comprises obtaining the session state information based on bandwidth data indicative of available bandwidth of a communication link of the communication network.

20. The non-transitory machine readable storage medium of claim 18, wherein the mobile device is a first mobile device and the operations further comprise:

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