Cooperative Network Architecture for Premium Service Prioritization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Network operators lack the means to guarantee premium customers in OTT services a consistent high-quality experience, as existing architectures fail to prioritize premium users, leading to potential service deterioration despite 'Turbo button' or 'Data Booster' activations.
Innovation Solution
A method that enhances cooperation between network operators and service providers by using a dynamic data table to associate user identifiers with network addresses and sub-network identifiers, allowing for quality of service differentiation and prioritization, while maintaining network resource independence.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a CDN broker is inserted between the service provider and the network operator to select delivery resources based on quality of user experience, then the quality of service for non-premium customers can be improved, but the network operator loses the ability to guarantee premium customers consistent high-quality experience
Solution Approach 1:
The invention segments the service management into two independent parts: the network operator maintains user categorization (premium/non-premium) and the service provider maintains service quality management. This segmentation allows each entity to independently manage their respective functions without interference, resolving the contradiction between service differentiation and quality consistency.
Solution Approach 2:
The network operator acts as an intermediary that provides categorized user information to the service provider through standardized interfaces. This intermediary role enables the service provider to differentiate services by user category while the network operator guarantees quality standards, allowing both differentiation and consistency to coexist.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the network operator categorizes users into premium and non-premium classes, then service differentiation is enabled, but the categorization has no effect on OTT type services provided by third-party providers
Solution Approach 1:
The invention creates a universal cooperation mechanism that works across all service types including OTT services. The standardized interface between network operator and service provider enables user categorization to be effectively applied universally, regardless of service type, ensuring that premium users receive guaranteed quality across all services.
3Ease of operation
If the service provider independently manages quality of service for its services, then service provider autonomy is maintained, but the network operator cannot guarantee premium customers will not suffer service deterioration
Solution Approach 1:
The invention applies different quality management approaches to different service types. For OTT services, the service provider independently manages quality with provider autonomy. For other services, the network operator guarantees premium quality. This local quality approach allows both provider independence and premium guarantees to coexist in appropriate contexts.
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AI summary
Cooperative network architecture. The invention concerns a method for transmitting information relating to a communication network, implemented by a first server of a communication network, the method comprising the following steps: - storing (201) a data table matching identifiers of subnetworks of the communication network associated with respective qualities of service, with at least one network address of a user terminal (3), the network address comprising an IP address of the user terminal; - receiving (202) a request from a second server of a service provider, the request requesting information linked to said communication network; - transmitting (203) at least a part of the data table to the second server, the part comprising the matches between each subnetwork identifier and the at least one network address of a user terminal.