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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2009
Filed:
Nov. 19, 2003
Thomas Arnold Anschutz, Conyers, GA (US);
Jeffrey Patrick Cassanova, Villa Rica, GA (US);
Edgar Vaughan Shrum, Jr., Smyrna, GA (US);
Steven Allen Wright, Roswell, GA (US);
LI Zhang, Alpharetta, GA (US);
Thomas Arnold Anschutz, Conyers, GA (US);
Jeffrey Patrick Cassanova, Villa Rica, GA (US);
Edgar Vaughan Shrum, Jr., Smyrna, GA (US);
Steven Allen Wright, Roswell, GA (US);
Li Zhang, Alpharetta, GA (US);
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Wilmington, DE (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems and/or computer program products are provided for managing Quality of Service (QoS) and/or bandwidth allocation in a Regional/Access Network (RAN) having a broadband access server (BRAS) that facilitates differentiated end-to-end data transport between a Network Service Provider (NSP) and/or an Application Service Provider (ASP), and a Customer Premises Network (CPN) that includes a Routing Gateway (RG). In particular embodiments of the present invention, a modify QoS and/or bandwidth allocation message including updated QoS and/or bandwidth information from the NSP and/or ASP is received at the RAN. The BRAS is updated with the QoS and/or bandwidth information and the RG is also updated with the QoS and/or bandwidth information.