Indication of service flow termination by network control to policy decision function

T Hurtta - US Patent 7,623,530, 2009 - Google Patents
When an authorization and/or control element like a policy control network element is
involved in the authorization and/or control of a service flow in a communication connection …

Method, system and network element for authorizing a data transmission

ZC Honkasalo, T Hurtta, V Räisänen - US Patent 7,826,353, 2010 - Google Patents
A mechanism for controlling connection parameters for a communication connection
between network elements is disclosed. When the communication connection is initialized …

Controlling a Session in a Service Provisioning System

PK Veenstra, CA Pons - US Patent App. 12/939,779, 2011 - Google Patents
It is an object of the invention to reduce or eliminate at least one of the drawbacks of known
service provisioning systems. In a first aspect the invention may relate to a method for …

Network service assurance with comparison of flow activity captured outside of a service network with flow activity captured in or at an interface of a service network

WC Bullard - US Patent App. 09/879,769, 2003 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A process is provided for auditing a communication Session between a
Source connected to a first node of a Service network and a destination connected to a …

Refreshing service profile information using third-party SIP register messages

A Roach - US Patent App. 09/876,916, 2002 - Google Patents
US20020037723A1 - Refreshing service profile information using third-party SIP register
messages - Google Patents US20020037723A1 - Refreshing service profile information …

Multiservice use of network connection capability

M Schneider, P Cunetto - US Patent 7,889,717, 2011 - Google Patents
A system that controls access to a communications network in accordance with a network
service includes a service controller and a network connector. The service controller …

Controlling access to services in a communications system

M Ylikoski, T Hyotylainen, T Virtanen, A Laine… - US Patent …, 2010 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A proxy network element for controlling access to services in a
communications system is disclosed. The proxy network element is configured to …

Device and method for classifying alarm messages resulting from a violation of a service level agreement in a communications network

S Betge-Brezetz, G Delegue, E Marilly… - US Patent App. 10 …, 2003 - Google Patents
A service data control device inside a communications network includes control means (3)
placed in such a way so as to classify according to at least one selected criterion alarm …

Method for deploying a service and a method for configuring a network element in a communication network

D Chantrain, M Van Ackere, H Vanderstraeten… - US Patent …, 2006 - Google Patents
A method for deploying a service in a communication network by performing the steps of:
invoking a service deployment engine by a request for the service, retrieval of deployment …

Method and apparatus for communicating network quality of service policy information to a plurality of policy enforcement points

A Zavalkovsky, N Elfassy - US Patent 6,988,133, 2006 - Google Patents
A method is disclosed for communicating network quality of service policy information to a
plurality of policy enforcement points. Active QoS configuration information is created and …