System and method for providing requested quality of service in a hybrid network

• US 8,094,647 B2
• Filed: 06/14/2001
• Issued: 01/10/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 11/18/1996
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Original Assignee: MCI Communications Corporation (Verizon Communications Inc.), Verizon Communications Inc., Verizon Services Corporation (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Inventors: Elliott, Isaac K., Reynolds, Tim E., Krishnaswamy, Sridhar
• Primary Examiner(s): PHAN, MAN U
• Application Number:
  US09/879,983
• Publication Number:
  US 20020064149A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,862 Days
• Field of Search: 370252-329, 370230-238, 370351-395, 370400-468, 370241-248, 379114-115, 379 88- 93, 709/203, 709221-232, 709/238, 713153-155
• US Class Current: 370/352
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/14 Charging , metering or billing arrangements for data wireline or wireless communications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1403 Architecture for metering, charging or billing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1428 Invoice generation, e.g. customization, lay-out, database processing, algorithms for calculating the bill or formatting invoices as WWW pages invoicing in general G06Q30/04
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1439 time-based
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1446 inter-operator billing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1453 Methods or systems for payment or settlement of the charges for data transmission involving significant interaction with the data transmission network
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1482 involving use of telephony infrastructure for billing for the transport of data, e.g. call detail record [CDR] or intelligent network infrastructure
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1485 Tariff-related aspects
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1492 negotiation of tariff
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1822 Conducting the conference, e.g. admission, detection, selection or grouping of participants, correlating users to one or more conference sessions, prioritising transmission
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/6418 Hybrid transport
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2012/6456 Channel and bandwidth allocation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0659 by isolating or reconfiguring faulty entities
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/12 Discovery or management of network topologies
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/18 Delegation of network management function, e.g. customer network management [CNM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5003 Managing SLA; Interaction between SLA and QoS
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5029 Service quality level-based billing, e.g. dependent on measured service level customer is charged more or less
• 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 41/5074 Handling of user complaints or trouble tickets
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5087 : wherein the managed service relates to voice services management of VoIP services H04M7/0081
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/50 : Testing arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/10 : Flow control; Congestion control
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/2441 : relying on flow classification, e.g. using integrated services [IntServ]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/70 : Admission control; Resource allocation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/72 : using reservation actions during connection setup
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/724 : at intermediate nodes, e.g. resource reservation protocol [RSVP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/781 : Centralised allocation of resources
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/805 : QOS or priority aware
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/808 : User-type aware
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/822 : Collecting or measuring resource availability data
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/83 : based on usage prediction
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/00 : Network arrangements, protocols or services for addressing or naming
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/45 : Network directories; Name-to-address mapping
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/04 : for providing a confidential data exchange among entities communicating through data packet networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/083 : using passwords cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication using a predetermined code H04L9/3226
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0853 : using an additional device, e.g. smartcard, SIM or a different communication terminal cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication involving additional secure or trusted devices H04L9/3234
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/102 : Entity profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1043 : Gateway controllers, e.g. media gateway control protocol [MGCP] controllers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1096 : Supplementary features, e.g. call forwarding or call holding systems providing special services or facilities to telephony subscribers H04M3/42
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1101 : Session protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1106 : Call signalling protocols; H.323 and related
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/401 : wherein the services involve a main real-time session and one or more additional parallel real-time or time sensitive sessions, e.g. white board sharing or spawning of a subconference
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/80 : Responding to QoS
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 : based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 : Network security protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 15/00 : Arrangements for metering, time-control or time indication ; Metering, charging or billing arrangements for voice wireline or wireless communications, e.g. VoIP
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 15/55 : for hybrid networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 15/8016 : based on quality of service [QoS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2215/2046 : Hybrid network
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2215/7414 : QoS
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42068 : where the identifier is used to access a profile
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42161 : via computer interface
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 7/123 : where the packet-switched network is an Internet Protocol Multimedia System-type network
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 7/1275 : Methods and means to improve the telephone service quality, e.g. reservation, prioritisation or admission control

Abstract

Telephone calls, data and other multimedia information is routed through a hybrid network which includes transfer of information across the internet. A media order entry captures complete user profile information for a user. This profile information is utilized by the system throughout the media experience for routing, billing, monitoring, reporting and other media control functions. Users can manage more aspects of a network than previously possible, and control network activities from a central site. The hybrid network also contains logic for responding to requests for quality of service and reserving the resources to provide the requested services.

Claims

1. A method for media communication over a hybrid network which includes a switched network and a packet switched network, comprising:

receiving a request for a media communication by a resource management processor connected to the hybrid network;

determining an amount of resources in the hybrid network necessary to obtain a requested quality of service;

allocating necessary resources to provide the requested quality of service on the hybrid network; and

releasing the necessary resources upon termination of the media communication.

2. The method for media communication in claim 1, further comprising:

creating a bill detail record including an entry indicative of the requested quality of service on the hybrid network; and

transmitting the bill detail record to a call server connected to the hybrid network.

3. The method for media communication in claim 2, further comprising:

transmitting a message to the call server with an entry indicative of time of termination of the media communication.

4. The method for media communication in claim 3, further comprising:

creating an additional entry in the bill detail record indicative of a type of service provided by the hybrid network.

5. The method for media communication in claim 1, further comprising:

determining the requested quality of service by parsing a field from the request for a media communication.

6. The method for media communication in claim 1, further comprising:

determining the requested quality of service from profile information associated with a caller of the media communication.

7. A method for media communication over a hybrid network which includes a circuit switched network and a packet switched network, comprising:

receiving a request for a media communication;

determining an amount of resources in the hybrid network necessary to obtain a requested quality of service; and

allocating necessary resources to provide the requested quality of service on the hybrid network.

8. The method of claim 7 further comprising:

releasing the necessary resources upon termination of the media communication.

9. The method of claim 7 further comprising:

creating a bill detail record including an entry indicative of the requested quality of service on the hybrid network, and

transmitting the bill detail record to a call server associated with the hybrid network.

10. A system for media communication over a hybrid network which includes a circuit switched network and a packet switched network, comprising:

a network device configured to;

receive a request for a media communication,

determine an amount of resources in the hybrid network necessary to obtain a requested quality of service, and

allocate the amount of resources to provide the requested quality of service on the hybrid network.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the network device is further configured to:

release the amount of resources upon termination of the media communication.