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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 14, 2008
Filed:
Jun. 13, 2003
Hugh Donal Stewart, Nepean, CA;
Gregory Allan Sidebottom, Ottawa, CA;
Wladimir DE Lara Filho Araujo, Ottawa, CA;
Steffen Georg Ries, Ottawa, CA;
Scott Joseph Stevens, Windham, NH (US);
Hugh Donal Stewart, Nepean, CA;
Gregory Allan Sidebottom, Ottawa, CA;
Wladimir de Lara Filho Araujo, Ottawa, CA;
Steffen Georg Ries, Ottawa, CA;
Scott Joseph Stevens, Windham, NH (US);
Juniper Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A network includes a media server and a service activation device. The media server may receive a request for content from a subscriber device and transmit a message. The message may identify the subscriber device and include information relating to the content. The service activation device may receive the message from the media server, identify, in response to receiving the message, bandwidth and quality of service requirements for the content, determine whether resources needed to provide the identified bandwidth and quality of service requirements exist, reserve the resources when the resources needed to provide the identified bandwidth and quality of service requirements exist, and transmit a second message to the media server in response to reserving the resources. The second message may cause the media server to provide the content to the subscriber device.