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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 14, 2018
Filed:
Jan. 27, 2017
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Arlington, VA (US);
Xiaoxiao Jiang, Stoneham, MA (US);
Vikram Siwach, Carlisle, MA (US);
Damascene M. Joachimpillai, Westford, MA (US);
Li Zhao, Waltham, MA (US);
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium to receive in a data path of user traffic, a packet associated with an end user; identify, by an operating system space, an identifier of the end user that is included in the packet; determine whether a type of traffic control service to be applied to the packet can be determined; pass, by the operating system space to an application space, the packet when the type of traffic control service cannot determined; determine, by the application space, the type of traffic of traffic control service; add, by the application space, a marker to the packet that indicates an identifier of the type of traffic control service; provide, by the operating system space the type of traffic control service that includes an in-line quota enforcement service and a charging record service.