Patent ID: 7573906
Filing Date: 2009-08-11
Classification: H04J

Abstract:
1. A method of managing Quality of Service (QoS) in a communication network, the method comprising: for each of a plurality of applications of a service provider which will communicate across the communication network, requesting a level of network communication QoS using QoS requests from the service provider; allocating levels of network communication QoS to individual ones of the applications of the service provider in response to the QoS requests by evaluating at a network service manager of the communication network the QoS that is available in the communication network and by allocating from the network service manager a level of network communication QoS to a particular one of the applications of the service provider in response to a QoS request for the particular application and the evaluation of the QoS available in the communication network; and managing, at the network service manager, network communication QoS that is provided by the communication network to network communications from the individual applications of the service provider in response to the network communication QoS levels allocated to the respective individual applications, wherein the communication network comprises a wide area network.