Various topologies of a quality of service application controller and related techniques to optimize the communications performance an application executing on a device participating in a communications environment are disclosed. The communications environment may include a cellular network, an unlicensed spectrum network, or a combination of the two. The quality of service application controller observes one or more key performance indicators of the communications network, and retrieves a policy from a policy store specific to the application. The quality of service application controller then modifies the execution of the application and/or the configurable aspects of the communications environment to optimize the communications performance of the application. For example, the application\'s data throughput may be increased, the power draw of the application may be minimized, data requested by the application may be minimized, or the apparent response time of the application\'s response to a web service may be minimized.

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›1.independentA system comprising:na device configured to communicate over a communications network, the device including at least one application executing on the …+14

›2.↳ 1The system of claim 1, wherein the communications network comprises any one of the following:na communications network operating on a licensed band;a …d2

›3.↳ 1The system of claim 1, wherein the quality of service application controller is executing on the device.d2+5

›4.↳ 3The system of claim 3, further comprising an operating system executing on the device, the operating system with a user mode and a kernel mode, and wh…d3+4

›9.↳ 1The system of claim 1, wherein the quality of service application controller is executing on a server separate from the device over the communications…d2

›10.↳ 1The system of claim 1,nwherein the communications network is configured to bill the user for a volume of digital data transmitted and received by the …d2

›11.↳ 1The system of claim 1, wherein the policy storage is resident on the device and at least one policy is statically preconfigured to be stored in the po…d2

›12.↳ 1The system of claim 1, wherein the policy storage is resident on the application, and the application is configured to dynamically generate the policy…d2

›13.↳ 1The system of claim 1, wherein the policy storage is resident on a trusted policy application, the trusted policy application communicatively connecte…d2

›14.↳ 1The system of claim 1, wherein the policy storage is resident on a server device separate from the device, and the device is communicatively coupled t…d2

›15.↳ 1The system of claim 1, wherein the policy storage is resident on the modem.d2

›16.independentA computer-implemented method comprising:nreceiving at a quality of service application controller an application indicator of an application executin…+6

›17.↳ 16The method of claim 16, further comprising retrieving by the quality of service application controller a conditional instruction from a user profile f…d2+1

›18.↳ 16The method of claim 16, wherein the retrieved policy is to modify the number of available communications pipes available in the communications environ…d2

›19.↳ 16The method of claim 16, wherein the communications environment includes a packet buffer containing data packets to and from the application, and where…d2

›20.↳ 16The method of claim 16, wherein the communications environment includes a communications protocol with at least one configurable protocol timer, and w…d2

›21.↳ 16The method of claim 16, wherein the retrieved policy is to shut off the application.d2

›23.independentA computer-implemented method comprising:nretrieving by a quality of service application controller a policy from a policy storage based at least on a…

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4 codes

IPC · International Patent Classification

Section H — Electricity

H04L12/24
H04W28/02
H04W88/02

USPC · US Patent Classification

370/230

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6 Dec 2011

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Type	Document	Date
provisional	US 61567562	6 Dec 2011
related publication	US 20130142043 A1	6 Jun 2013

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