Patent ID: 7756056

Claim:
An apparatus of managing quality of service (QoS) in an integrated network system, comprising: a policy and home subscriber server (PHSS) configured to: receive a user profile request signal from a local network manager (LNM); provide, to a profile manager (PM), a user profile in accordance with the user profile request signal; receive, from a ruler, a policy information request signal for policy information corresponding to a decided network equipment control algorithm; and send back, to the ruler, policy information in accordance with the policy information request signal from the ruler; the PM configured to: receive the user profile from the PHSS; and transfer the user profile to a conditioner; a network monitor configured to: send network information to the conditioner; the conditioner configured to: calculate conditions that are used for selecting a policy based on the user profile and the network information when the conditioner determines that the related service is subscribed to by the user; the ruler configured to: receive, from the conditioner, the calculated conditions; decide on the network equipment control algorithm based on the calculated conditions; forward, to the PHSS, the policy information request signal for policy information corresponding to the decided network equipment control algorithm; and receive, from the PHSS, the policy information in accordance with the policy information request signal; and a global resource manager (GRM) configured to: receive, from the ruler, a request resource allocation message in accordance with the received policy information; and allocate resources in accordance with the forwarded request resource allocation message from the ruler.