Differentiated service

About: Differentiated service is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 5539 publications have been published within this topic receiving 105225 citations.

Membership qualification processing system and method thereof

Abstract: A service system stores membership qualification conditions of a plurality of services. The service system selects a service that a user can use from those and displays the selected service. The service system references information of another service of which a user has already become a member and performs a membership qualification of the user on behalf of a server of each service.

Method and system for providing differentiated service on a per virtual circuit basis within a packet-based switch/router

Abstract: Different levels of service are provided to different types of traffic within a single virtual circuit (VC) by converting the traffic from fixed-length cells to variable-length packets, classifying the packets based on information in the packet headers, associating the packets with a VC, and then implementing class-specific enqueuing and dequeuing of the classified packets on a per-VC basis. Classified packets are dequeued from VC-specific and class-specific queues into VC-specific segmentation and re-assembly (SAR) queues according to an algorithm that is a function of traffic class. The dequeuing algorithm determines the level of service that is provided to the different classes of traffic within each VC. Packets are dequeued from the VC-specific SAR queues and converted back to fixed-length cells according to an algorithm that arbitrates among multiple VC-specific SAR queues. The technique for managing traffic can be carried out within an Ethernet switch/router that includes input and output ATM interfaces.

Means and method for controlling service progression between different domains

Abstract: At present, the existing mechanisms for authorising a user of a service network operator to access a service provided by a third party service provider are valid for most of the existing services based on a request and an answer, but for transactional services, those where a service delivery implies several transactions, the existing techniques present serious limitations for the operators to fully control the progression of services. To overcome this limitation, the invention provides means and methods to control the progression of a service, service which requires a plurality of transactions, at a first domain where the service has been authorised while the user is using said service provided by a second domain, as well as a verification mechanism for verifying the use of the service between the service network operator and the service provider.

e 3 service: An Ontological Approach for Deriving Multi-supplier IT-Service Bundles from Consumer Needs

Abstract: IT-services should not only be considered from a technical perspective, but should also be seen as commercial services that satisfy a consumer need. Examples include well-known services such as Internet access or content provisioning services. Typically, to satisfy a consumer need, a bundle of elementary services is required. In such a bundle, each elementary service can be offered by a different supplier. A key problem is then how to actually find service-bundles that satisfy consumer needs as close as possible. Because IT-service bundles can be automatically provisioned online immediately after ordering, finding a service bundle satisfying a need should preferably also happen automatically. To this end, we propose the e3service ontology, which offers constructs from service marketing, but in a computational way, such that automated reasoning support can be developed to match consumer needs with IT-services. This paper presents the e3service ontology and explains it by a case from the telecom industry.