Dynamic QoS Provisioning via Third-Party Authentication
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current network systems restrict third-party providers from offering premium services with high quality of service to subscribers, limiting network operators' ability to form revenue-sharing arrangements due to internal content management and lack of secure mechanisms for dynamic quality of service provisioning.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a secure mechanism using standard protocols to authenticate third-party hosted services, allowing dynamic quality of service (DQoS) provisioning through a method that includes issuing and validating requests from third-party servers, and utilizing a system with a cable modem termination system, edge proxy server, and policy manager to manage sessions and bandwidth allocation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If services are maintained and distributed internal to the operator's network, then network control and security are improved, but third-party providers cannot offer premium services with high quality of service
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary authentication mechanism that acts as a mediator between third-party service providers and the operator's network. This intermediary validates DQoS requests from third parties and translates them into internal network commands, allowing external services to access premium quality of service while maintaining internal network control and security boundaries.
2Reliability
If the service provider maintains content internally, then service quality and security are improved, but the service provider is limited in entering revenue-sharing arrangements with third-party content providers
Solution Approach 1:
The authentication mechanism serves as an intermediary that enables business arrangements between service providers and third-party content providers. It validates DQoS requests from external parties and translates them into internal network commands, allowing revenue-sharing models while maintaining internal content management control.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments the service delivery architecture into external authentication/authorization layer and internal content management layer. This segmentation allows third-party providers to authenticate and receive quality of service guarantees without requiring internal content management changes, enabling flexible business arrangements while preserving internal service quality controls.
3Productivity
If consumers upgrade to higher tiered services for increased bandwidth, then data throughput is improved, but customers have difficulty identifying rates of data throughput and the demand is transitory
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic quality of service provisioning where bandwidth allocation is not fixed but adjusts in real-time based on actual service requirements. The DQoS mechanism allows temporary, on-demand bandwidth increases for specific applications or content types, enabling consumers to access higher throughput when needed without permanently upgrading service tiers, thus simplifying the user experience while maintaining network efficiency.
Data Source
AI summary
A secure mechanism for third party hosted services to communicate with networks to allow dynamic quality of service to be provisioned for content of the third parties is disclosed. By authenticating the third party hosted services, the service provider is able to enter into business arrangements to share revenue with the third party content providers based on the premium service. A subscriber issues a request to a third party server. In response to issuing the request to the third party server, a dynamic quality of service request is received from the third party server. The dynamic quality of service request is validated and a session is provisioned between the client and the third party server implementing the requested dynamic quality of service.