Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Harrison Duong

Mark J Hahn

Paul T Schultz

Robert A Sartini

Piyush Jethwa

Hugh Herrick Fletcher

A first network device is configured to receive information regarding a quality of service application that is part of an application stored on a device. The first network device is configured to further receive a request for a network to apply the level of quality service to the application stored on the device. The first network device is configured to further send an authorization request to the second network device. The first network device is configured to further receive an authorization result from the second network device. The first network device is configured send a first message to a third network device and receiving a response from the third network device that the level of quality of service is applied to the information; and send a message to the provider that the level of quality of service is applied to the information.

Changing levels of quality of service

A computing device receives a request for a service level agreement (SLA) that indicates a specific combination of services and service levels selected from a group of available services and available service levels. The computing device generates an SLA identifier for the specific combination of services and service levels, and determines if the SLA identifier matches one of a group of stored SLA identifiers. The computing device generates a new SLA based on the specific combination of services and service levels when the SLA identifier does not match one of the group of stored SLA identifiers, and assigns an existing SLA, corresponding to one of the group of stored SLA identifiers, when the SLA identifier matches one of the group of stored SLA identifiers.

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