METHOD TO ASSIGN TRAFFIC PRIORITY OR BANDWIDTH FOR APPLICATION AT THE END USERS-DEVICE

• US 20120036513A1
• Filed: 09/25/2009
• Published: 02/09/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 10/03/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Mimos Berhad (Ministry of Finance Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Mimos Berhad (Ministry of Finance Incorporated)
• Inventors: Choong, Khong Neng
• Application Number:
  US13/122,050
• Publication Number:
  US 20120036513A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 718/104
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0896 Bandwidth or capacity management, i.e. automatically increasing or decreasing capacities flow or congestion control using dynamic resource allocation, e.g. in-call renegotiation, H04L47/76
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/2433 Allocation of priorities to traffic types
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/2475 for supporting traffic characterised by the type of applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/803 Application aware
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/822 Collecting or measuring resource availability data

Abstract

A resource reservation method in a network, where the allocation of network bandwidth to each application connected to the network is determined by the end user is provided herewith.

Claims

1. A method of determining the Quality of Service (QoS) in a network in which a plurality of bandwidth-occupying applications are executed, wherein a kernel-level agent is used to manipulate the IP QoS setting by the following steps:

determining the available bandwidth in the network for the execution of the plurality of network applications;

determining the number of applications connected to the network which will utilize the available network bandwidth; and

allocating the network bandwidth for the plurality of network applications according to a pre-configured bandwidth allocation value for each application.

2. A method according to claim 1, wherein end-users determine the pre-configured bandwidth value for each network application.

3. A method according to claim 2, wherein the users are allowed to specify the preferred bandwidth for each network application by means of a Graphic User Interface.

4. A method according to claim 1, wherein the kernel-level agent determines the available bandwidth according to the steps of:

downloading one or more test files of different sizes from a server;

calculating the downloading time by deducting the start-time from end-time; and

determining the throughput of the network by dividing the file size with downloading time.

5. A method according to claim 1, wherein the kernel-level agent determines the number of applications connected to the network according to the steps of:

accessing the Operating System;

determining the Process ID for each connection; and

determining the application connected to the network by using the Process ID obtained and querying the System Task Manager.

6. A method according to claim 1, wherein the users may determine the preferred bandwidth for each network application by allocating percentage of available bandwidth to each application.

7. A method according to claim 1, wherein the users may determine the precise value of bandwidth, delay and buffer value for each application.