Communications network

Details Communications network Communications network

2008-01-15

2008-01-15

Chan, Wing (Department: 2616)

Multiplex communications

Diagnostic testing

Determination of communication parameters

Reexamination Certificate

active

09674717

ABSTRACT:
In a communications network, which may be a federated network such as the Internet, a tariff is distributed via the network to customer terminals. At each terminal a charge for use of the network is calculated by using the tariff. Different tariffs may be communicated for different services and a respective tariff may be varied depending upon the operational condition of the service. Different tariffs may be calculated for different customers and the tariffs may be varied in dependence upon the loading of network resources and different tariffs may have different volatilities. Part of the traffic from a user to the network may be sampled and the status of the user may be amended when a discrepancy is detected between the sampled parameters and the contracted parameters in the users contract.

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