Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (publ)

Szymon Fedor

Liam Fallon

Anne-Marie Bosneag

Sidath Handurukande

The invention provides a quality of service monitoring device () for use with a user equipment comprising a base platform (); and an external communication module () adapted to receive from an external source one or more listener modules and/or detector modules for incorporation into the base platform (). The base platform () is coupled to the external communication module () to receive one or more listener modules () and detector modules () and is adapted to install received modules to extend the functionality of the base platform () so as to perform the functionality of the installed modules. A corresponding method is provided. There is also provided a quality of service monitoring apparatus, for use on the network side, as well as a corresponding method.

Quality of service monitoring device and method of monitoring quality of service

A method and apparatus for assessing the compatibility of a selected network feature with the network features of an existing telecommunications networkcomprises providing an abstraction of each network feature in the form of a data modelwhich defines the relationships between any network elementsor nodessoftware elementsand software featuresrequired for each network feature. Informationis then collected about the existing telecommunications networkto identity the deployment of the network features in the existing network. This information is then combined with the data modelto build a feature compatibility matrixwhich defines the compatibility of network features in the existing telecommunications networkThe matrixcan then be interrogated with information defining the parameters of the selected feature to be added or upgraded to determine whether the selected feature is compatible with features of the existing network.

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Szymon Fedor