Patent ID: 8982893
Filing Date: 2015-03-17
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of providing a predefined Quality of Service (QoS) level to an Over The Top (OTT) service provider in a wireless telecommunications network in which a User Equipment (UE) initiates an Internet Protocol (IP)-based application session with the OTT service provider by sending an application-dependent message toward an OTT application server, the method comprising the steps of: intercepting the application-dependent message by a proxy node in the wireless telecommunications network before the message traverses any firewall; modifying the application-dependent message by the proxy node, wherein the proxy node adds to a header of the application-dependent message, a subscriber identification associated with the UE; forwarding the modified application-dependent message from the proxy node to the OTT application server, wherein the OTT application server is completely oblivious to the modification of the header of the message; in response to the modified application-dependent message, sending a request having the subscriber identification from the OTT application server over a communication path that excludes the UE to the telecommunications network with a QoS requirement selected by the OTT application server for the IP-based application session; determining by a network policy node, an appropriate QoS level for the subscriber based on the subscriber identification and the QoS requirement sent by the OTT application server; enforcing by a network gateway, the determined QoS level for the IP-based application session with the OTT service provider; and accomplishing with the UE the IP-based application session with the appropriate QoS.