Patent ID: 6917617
Filing Date: 2005-07-12
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for setting Quality of Service (QoS) bits of packets sent by a user of a data communications network, comprising: receiving, at a service selection gateway to which the user is in communication, a request from the user to assign a particular Quality of Service level to at least one packet flow transmitted by the user; assigning, in response to said request, a Quality of Service level to said at least one packet flow; setting said QoS bits within said packets belonging to said at least one packet flow received at the service selection gateway in accordance with said Quality of Service level; and transmitting said packets belonging to said at least one packet flow to the data communications network, wherein all of said packets belonging to said at least one packet flow are IP packets, and said QoS bits are the precedence bits within the ToS/Differentiated Services field of said IP packets.