Appeal 2007-1410
Application 09/811,038
Appellants’ invention relates to reserving virtual connections having a
designated Quality of Service (QoS) in an Internet Protocol network. A
reservation request is delivered from a source workstation to a reservation
server. The reservation server first validates whether the requesting user is
allowed to access the server, and what rights that user possesses. If the
validation step is successful, the reservation server proceeds to determine
whether the capacity of the network is sufficient to meet the requirements of
the reservation request. If capacity is sufficient, a virtual connection is
established between an ingress node and an egress node of the network
(Specification 4:7-26).
Claim 8 is exemplary:
8. A method for reserving a virtual connection from a source
workstation to a destination workstation within a network to allow data
packets to be transmitted between an ingress node of said source workstation
and an egress node of said destination workstation, said method comprising:
sending a reservation request for a virtual connection from said source
workstation to a reservation server, wherein said reservation server includes
connection setup means for setting up a virtual connection that meets a
predefined Quality of Service (QoS) requirement from said ingress node to
said egress node;
determining whether or not said reservation request can be validated
based on user information within said source workstation, wherein said user
information is accessible by said reservation server,
in response to a determination that said reservation request can be
validated based on user information within said source workstation,
determining whether or not the capacity of said network is sufficient to meet
requirements of said reservation request; and
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