Patent ID: 7933274
Filing Date: 2011-04-26
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for establishing Quality of Service (QoS) in a home network, the method comprising: receiving, from a remote home network device, a request for bandwidth for a virtual private network (VPN); establishing a VPN between an Internet gateway device in the home network and the remote home network device based upon the request for bandwidth; receiving, from the remote home network device, a traffic specification of an application running on the remote home network device; determining a control point in the home network to which the application running on the remote home network device needs to connect; establishing a non-VPN connection path between the Internet gateway device and the determined control point; retrieving a traffic policy; retrieving path characteristics of the VPN; and reserving resources in both the VPN and the non-VPN connection path based on the path characteristics, the traffic policy, and the traffic specification.