Techniques for creating policies for use in policy-based management of quality of service treatments of network data traffic flows are described. Policies are defined based on information about types of flows generated by an application and quality of service functions that are available in the network....http://www.google.de/patents/US20070204036?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US20070204036 - Method and apparatus for creating policies for policy-based management of quality of service treatments of network data traffic flows