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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 16, 2017
Filed:
Oct. 21, 2010
Pieter Albert Nooren, Den Hoorn, NL;
Mattijs Oskar Van Deventer, Leidschendam, NL;
Pieter Albert Nooren, Den Hoorn, NL;
Mattijs Oskar Van Deventer, Leidschendam, NL;
Abstract
Different quality of service policies are enforced for packets from traffic streams of different type in a communication network, according to the type of traffic types of traffic. A learning phase and an operation phase are provided. The learning phase teaching by example of characteristics that must be used to distinguish the different types of traffic. In the learning phase, an indication is received of a quality of service policy that is required for user applications of a selected type. An indication is provided indicating execution of a user application of said type in a user domain and characteristics of packet traffic are derived from inspection of packets transmitted through the communication network to and/or from the user domain during the indicated execution. In the operation phase packet traffic in the network to and/or from the user domain is inspected. It is detected whether observed characteristics of the packet traffic match the derived characteristics. When a match is detected, enforcement of the quality of service policy in the network to packet traffic of the selected type of user application is triggered.