Bandwidth reservation for authenticated applications

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 10659563
APP PUB NO 20170366643A1
SERIAL NO

15676536

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Methods, systems, devices, and software are disclosed for providing application levels of service over a network. Embodiments of the invention maintain a list of registered applications (or application providers) that have registered with a network resources provider. Customers of the network resources provider may authenticate some or all of the registered applications, indicating a desire to allow traffic relating to those applications over their access networks. Customers may further set application levels of service with respect to those authenticated applications. Certain embodiments may manage network traffic to accord with the application levels of service.

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  • QWEST COMMUNICATIONS INTERNATIONAL INC.

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Cook, Charles I Louisville, US 158 4520
Schwengler, Thomas Lakewood, US 79 1603
Stevens, Gilman R Austin, US 33 1756

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