Patent ID: 8612609

Claim:
A method to reassign quality of service priorities in a communication network, the method comprising: processing, with a processor, a first message received from a device associated with a first user of the communication network, the first message being associated with initiation of a temporary quality of service priority reassignment to reassign a quality of service priority associated with a second user of the communication network, the temporary quality of service priority reassignment to affect network traffic between a first network element associated with the first user and a second network element associated with the second user, the first user being different from a service provider providing the communication network to the first and second users; and evaluating, with the processor, a concurrent invocation limit to determine whether to allow the temporary quality of service priority reassignment associated with the first message to be performed, the concurrent invocation limit to cause a number of temporary quality of service priority reassignments initiated by the first user to reassign quality of service priorities for a plurality of other users including the second user not to exceed a total number of temporary quality of service priority reassignments permitted to be active concurrently for the first user.