Patent ID: 8565263

Claim:
A method for providing increased bandwidth to business subscribers during business hours, comprising: providing a plurality of bandwidth tier subscription plans having a plurality of increasing bandwidths, wherein a subscriber has a first bandwidth tier subscription plan having a first bandwidth; determining whether the first bandwidth tier subscription plan is eligible for application of a business boost during business hours; if the first bandwidth tier subscription plan is not eligible for application of the business boost during business hours, upgrading the subscriber to a second bandwidth tier subscription plan supporting the business boost and having a second bandwidth; and if the subscriber is upgraded to the second bandwidth tier subscription plan supporting the business boost, activating business boost to the subscriber when the subscriber is eligible for the business boost during business hours and provisioning an increased bandwidth to the subscriber during business hours to provide the business boost to the subscriber, wherein activating business boost comprises: loading MAC address of the eligible subscriber into a bandwidth-on-demand server prior to a start time, scheduling the increased bandwidth to the eligible subscriber having the MAC address continuously during business hours, deloading the MAC address of the eligible subscriber from the bandwidth-on-demand server at a stop time, and re-scheduling the eligible subscriber having the MAC address deloaded back to the second bandwidth.