Patent ID: 8179875
Filing Date: 2012-05-15
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for provisioning of user services in an access network, the user services are latency-tolerant, non-real time services including storage of information available at a communication terminal, backup of information stored at a communication terminal, downloading information to a communication terminal, downloading applications to a communication terminal, activating applications already available at a communication terminal, uploading stored information to a communication terminal, automatic virus scanning, automatic or cheaper applications download, automatic or cheaper connection to internet sites, and including user services of type having parts that are transferred at different times, the method comprises the steps of: setting a demand for one or more user services for a user; determining network resources required to transfer at least part of said one or more user services; establishing whether the network resources required to transfer the at least part of said one or more user services are currently available, or whether the at least part of said one or more user services are transferred at a later stage, at a time when network resources required to comply with said provisioning of user services become available, the exact time for the provisioning of said one or more user services is not determined at the time of establishing that the at least part of said one or more user services are transferred at said later stage; and when it has been established that the at least part of said one or more user services are transferred at a later stage, transferring the at least part of said one or more user services when the network's available resources currently match that of the network resources required for the transferring of the at least part of said one or more user services, wherein the exact time for the provisioning of said one or more user services is not known, and has not been predicted at the time of establishing whether the at least part of said one or more user services are transmitted at said later stage.