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Automated adjustment of subscriber policies

  • US 10,243,791 B2
  • Filed: 08/13/2015
  • Issued: 03/26/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/13/2015
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A system for automated adjusting of subscriber policies, the system comprising:

  • a servicing node operable to;

    apply traffic enforcement rules to a data traffic associated with one or more subscribers, the data traffic being served by a plurality of network nodes, each of the one or more subscribers being assigned a level of service for providing the data traffic, the level of service guaranteeing a proportional difference between an amount of the data traffic provided to the each of the one or more subscribers based on the level of service;

    determine network conditions associated with the data traffic, the network conditions being indicative of increases or decreases in a demand for bandwidth for data moving across a network associated with the one or more subscribers, the increases or the decreases in the demand being determined based on at least one of an amount of bandwidth consumed by the one or more subscribers, a resource availability associated with the network, and a planned reconfiguration of the network;

    based on the determination, change a number of the plurality of network nodes serving the data traffic, the number of the plurality network nodes being selected based on the modified amount of the data traffic; and

    modify the traffic enforcement rules based on modified amount of the data traffic to be provided to the each of the one or more subscribers and based on the selected number of the plurality network nodes to obtain modified traffic enforcement rules; and

    a policy management unit being a hardware-based policy management unit operable to;

    based on the determination of the network conditions, modify the amount of the data traffic to be provided to the each of the one or more subscribers, wherein the amount of the data traffic is proportionally modified according to the level of service associated with the each of the one or more subscribers.

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