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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 01, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2016
British Telecommunications Public Limited Company, London, GB;
Vidhyalakshmi Karthikeyan, London, GB;
Detlef Nauck, London, GB;
BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS public limited company, London, GB;
Abstract
The present invention provides a method of providing QoS models for a communications network in which: data is obtained data describing a plurality of QoS models, with each QoS model containing at least one QoS component specifying a characteristic of network traffic to be provided by the QoS model; monitoring network traffic to obtain a plurality of indicators, each indicating a characteristic of the network traffic associated with one of the QoS models; selecting, based on the indicators, a subset of the plurality of QoS models; and providing data identifying the subset of QoS models to a client device to enable the client device to send data over the network according to a selected one of the subset of QoS models.