Patent ID: 8369339

Claim:
A system for managing network service to subscriber premises equipment associated with at least one subscriber, the system comprising: a service management system for: providing, to a content provider, at least one service description for improving service of the at least one subscriber comprising: at least one set of parameters defined for at least one IP address range for which said service is provided comprising a respective class of service (CoS) definition having at least one attribute selected from access BW levels, shaping levels, best effort levels, and expedited forwarding levels, content provider authorization methods, billing methods, and service API parameters; and respective filtering criteria defining which traffic said improvement applies to based on destination or source addresses of one of layer 3 and HTTP; receiving a service request from a content provider system of said content provider, and generating service management commands with use of said service request, said service request requesting as a service, an improvement in network service to said subscriber premises equipment; a network management system (NMS) coupled to said service management system for responding to said service management commands received from said service management system and generating network management commands; and a network access provider (NAP) infrastructure coupled to the NMS for providing said network service to said subscriber premises equipment, responding to said network management commands received from said NMS to change network transport parameters to increase one of at least bandwidth and quality of network access of the at least one subscriber, and implementing said improvement in said network service to said subscriber premises equipment, wherein said service request is generated by said content provider for the at least one subscriber based on the service description received from said service management system, and said content provider is charged for said improvement in said network service to said subscriber premises equipment.