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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 30, 2014
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2006
Venson Shaw, Kirkland, WA (US);
Q. James HU, Sammamish, WA (US);
Venson Shaw, Kirkland, WA (US);
Q. James Hu, Sammamish, WA (US);
AT&T Mobility II LLC, Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
A policy based service aware engine is provided to dynamically and/or statically provision a traffic navigation processor at a visited network according to service profiles of the home network. The service aware engine thus allows the visited network to gain full knowledge of the service to which a user subscribes, and thus, a user experience consistent with the user's home network can be obtained at the visited network. In various embodiments, the visited network's front-end-processor retrieves or receives service policies from the service aware engine of the home network, and then performs policy-based traffic navigation to intelligently handle and/or backhaul roaming traffic received by the visited network. Thus, the visited network is capable of dynamically classifying incoming roaming traffic and intelligently routing the traffic according to the service characteristics of the traffic flow for each subscriber, e.g., the need for QoS (Quality of Service) support, real time performance requirement, specific level identification, or the like.