Appeal 2007-1410
Application 09/811,038
4. Should sufficient network capacity be determined, a virtual
connection is established from the ingress node to the egress node (Br. 3:5-
7).
Kalmanek
5. Kalmanek relates to reserving and committing network
resources based on an authorized quality of service (col. 1, ll. 23-25).
6. A service provider may verify the specified quality of service
for a call. For example, a calling party transferring data may subscribe for a
service with a quality of service having a large bandwidth and small latency;
in such an example, a service provider can verify the service subscription for
the particular quality of service associated with the call for that particular
calling party (col. 9, ll. 25-34).
7. Gate controllers can authenticate signaling messages and
authorize requests for service so that communication services and certain
service features are only provided to authorized subscribers. Upon receiving
a setup request message from a calling party, the gate controller can
authenticate the identity of the calling party and authorize the service sought
by the calling party (col. 6, ll. 56-62).
8. Kalmanek recognizes that network resource management may
be necessary, because some network edge devices in the communications
network may not have sufficient processing capacity to process a large
number of reservation messages typical for high volume call traffic (col. 10,
ll. 47-56).
9. Resource management may be performed on a per-call basis.
When an originating telephony interface unit sends a reservation request to a
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