Quality of service for high network traffic events

• US 9,998,381 B2
• Filed: 05/05/2016
• Issued: 06/12/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 05/05/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Bolshinsky, Leonid, Gamaley, Vladimir, Krisher, Sharon
• Primary Examiner(s): Higa, Brendan
• Application Number:
  US15/146,916
• Publication Number:
  US 20170324666A1
• Time in Patent Office: 768 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0816 the condition being an adaptation, e.g. in response to network events
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/50 Network service management, e.g. ensuring proper service fulfilment according to agreements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5022 by giving priorities, e.g. assigning classes of service
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/08 Monitoring or testing based on specific metrics, e.g. QoS, energy consumption or environmental parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0882 Utilisation of link capacity
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/16 Threshold monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/10 Flow control; Congestion control
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/12 Avoiding congestion; Recovering from congestion
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/24 Traffic characterised by specific attributes, e.g. priority or QoS
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/2441 relying on flow classification, e.g. using integrated services [IntServ]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles

Abstract

A method for providing quality of service includes identifying a high network traffic event at a node, providing a user score to each user account of a plurality of user accounts, wherein the plurality of user accounts corresponds to a plurality of user devices connected to the node, and responsive to identifying the high network traffic event, providing instructions to a subset of user devices of the plurality of user devices, wherein the instructions instruct the subset of devices to enter a low traffic mode, and wherein each device of the subset of devices corresponds to a user account with a user score below a threshold. A computer program product and computer system corresponding to the above method are also disclosed herein.

Claims

1. A method for providing quality of service, the method comprising:

identifying a high network traffic event at a node;

providing a user score to each user account of a plurality of user accounts, wherein the plurality of user accounts corresponds to a plurality of user devices connected to the node;

responsive to identifying the high network traffic event, providing instructions to a subset of user devices of the plurality of user devices, wherein the instructions comprise instructions for the subset of devices to enter a low traffic mode, wherein the devices in low traffic mode send and receive media in a resolution that is lower than devices not subject to the low traffic mode, and wherein each device of the subset of devices corresponds to a user account with a user score below a threshold;

identifying that the high network traffic event has completed;

disabling the low traffic mode for devices corresponding to the subset of the plurality of users; and

retransmitting the media that was sent and received from each user'"'"'s device during low traffic mode.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the low traffic mode lowers the resolution of media to a degree corresponding to the user score of each device'"'"'s user, wherein a lower user score corresponds to a greater lowering of resolution.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving quality of service information from the plurality of user devices, wherein the high network traffic event is identified by the quality of service information.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein a user score is calculated for each user based on one or more of the user'"'"'s number of friends, an aggregate user score of all of the user'"'"'s friends, and the user'"'"'s rating.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

identifying that the high network traffic event has completed; and

disabling the low traffic mode for devices corresponding to the subset of the plurality of users.

6. A computer system for providing quality of service, the computer system comprising:

one or more computer processors;

one or more computer readable storage media;

program instructions stored therein for execution by at least one of the one or more computer processors, the program instructions comprising instructions for;

identifying a high network traffic event at a node;

providing a user score to each user account of a plurality of user accounts, wherein the plurality of user accounts corresponds to a plurality of user devices connected to the node;

responsive to identifying the high network traffic event, providing instructions to a subset of user devices of the plurality of user devices, wherein the instructions comprise instructions for the subset of devices to enter a low traffic mode, wherein the devices in low traffic mode send and receive media in a resolution that is lower than devices not subject to the low traffic mode, and wherein each device of the subset of devices corresponds to a user account with a user score below a threshold;

identifying that the high network traffic event has completed;

disabling the low traffic mode for devices corresponding to the subset of the plurality of users; and

retransmitting the media that was sent and received from each user'"'"'s device during low traffic mode.

7. The computer system of claim 6, wherein the low traffic mode lowers the resolution of media to a degree corresponding to the user score of each device'"'"'s user, wherein a lower user score corresponds to a greater lowering of resolution.

8. The computer system of claim 6, further comprising instructions for receiving quality of service information from the plurality of user devices, wherein the high network traffic event is identified by the quality of service information.

9. The computer system of claim 6, wherein a user score is calculated for each user based on one or more of the user'"'"'s number of friends, an aggregate user score of all of the user'"'"'s friends, and the user'"'"'s rating.

10. The computer system of claim 6, further comprising:

identifying that the high network traffic event has completed; and

disabling the low traffic mode for devices corresponding to the subset of the plurality of users.

11. A computer program product for providing quality of service, the computer program product comprising:

a computer readable storage medium and program instructions stored on the computer readable storage medium, the program instructions comprising instructions for;

identifying a high network traffic event at a node;

providing a user score to each user account of a plurality of user accounts, wherein the plurality of user accounts corresponds to a plurality of user devices connected to the node;

responsive to identifying the high network traffic event, providing instructions to a subset of user devices of the plurality of user devices, wherein the instructions comprise instructions for the subset of devices to enter a low traffic mode, wherein the devices in low traffic mode send and receive media in a resolution that is lower than devices not subject to the low traffic mode, and wherein each device of the subset of devices corresponds to a user account with a user score below a threshold;

identifying that the high network traffic event has completed;

disabling the low traffic mode for devices corresponding to the subset of the plurality of users; and

retransmitting the media that was sent and received from each user'"'"'s device during low traffic mode.

12. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein the low traffic mode lowers the resolution of media to a degree corresponding to the user score of each device'"'"'s user, wherein a lower user score corresponds to a greater lowering of resolution.

13. The computer program product of claim 11, further comprising instructions for receiving quality of service information from the plurality of user devices, wherein the high network traffic event is identified by the quality of service information.

14. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein a user score is calculated for each user based on one or more of the user'"'"'s number of friends, an aggregate user score of all of the user'"'"'s friends, and the user'"'"'s rating.