Patent ID: 8769124

Claim:
A method for operating a network, wherein at least one end user device is connected to an access network, said method comprising the steps of: the at least one end user device or an application on said end user device makes a query querying at least one network element of the access network and/or at least one network element attached to the access network about low layer parameters information for optimizing connection and/or protocol parameters after having received the queried low layer parameters information, the at least one network element being a queried network element, wherein a communication manager of the end user device or the querying network element implements the query, wherein a communication manager of the queried network element has a communication manager that implements a response mechanism to the query, and wherein optimizing connection and/or protocol parameters comprise selecting or parameterizing a protocol or an IP stack of the querying end user device; and the end user device using the optimizing connection and/or protocol parameters sent from the queried network element to optimize connection parameters by selecting or parameterizing the protocol or the IP stack of the end user device.