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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 23, 2023
Filed:
Apr. 13, 2020
Applicant:
Comcast Cable Communications, Llc, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Inventors:
Stephanie Hingtgen, Westminster, CO (US);
David Arbuckle, Denver, CO (US);
Assignee:
Comcast Cable Communications, LLC, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 67/61 (2022.01); H04L 67/63 (2022.01); H04L 41/5003 (2022.01); H04L 67/568 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 67/63 (2022.05); H04L 41/5003 (2013.01); H04L 67/568 (2022.05); H04L 67/61 (2022.05);
Abstract
Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for controlling quality of service (QoS) provided to user devices by, for example, requesting a portion of the user devices to temporarily and selectively downgrade a quality of service. A downgrade message may be sent to the user devices to request a downgrade, and may provide information to allow the user devices to determine whether they will abide by the requested downgrade.