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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 26, 2011
Filed:
Oct. 15, 2008
Applicants:
Sanjeev Verma, San Jose, CA (US);
Alan Messer, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Inventors:
Sanjeev Verma, San Jose, CA (US);
Alan Messer, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Assignee:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/56 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In one embodiment, a method for establishing Quality of Service (QoS) in a home network is provided. The method comprises: receiving a request for bandwidth in a virtual private network (VPN); receiving a traffic specification of an application on a control point retrieving a traffic policy; retrieving path characteristics of the VPN; and reserving resources in the VPN based on the path characteristics, the traffic policy, and the traffic specification.