Patent ID: 9319242
Filing Date: 2016-04-19
CPC Classification: H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: receiving, at a gateway node, a request for establishing a communication pathway end-to-end over a network, wherein the communication pathway includes a radio communication channel and a packet communication channel, wherein the request comprises a secondary packet data protocol context request including a plurality of flow information identifying a plurality of traffic flows to be carried by the communication pathway, wherein the request further includes quality-of-service attributes associated with the plurality of traffic flows, wherein at least one of the plurality of traffic flows is associated with at least one of the plurality of quality-of-service attributes determining a quality-of-service requirement for the at least one of the plurality of traffic flows; negotiating, based on the received request comprising the secondary packet data protocol context request and the at least one of the plurality of quality-of-service attributes, between the gateway node and a policy decision function node, a first quality-of-service; reporting, by the gateway node, to at least one of the policy decision function node, an application server, and an application proxy, the negotiated first quality-of-service; receiving, at the gateway node, a decision sent by the policy decision function node, wherein the decision drops a first traffic flow from the plurality of traffic flows, when the negotiated first quality-of-service accommodates a subset of the plurality of traffic flows, wherein the decision includes information about the dropped first traffic flow; and sending, from the gateway node, a modified secondary packet data protocol context request based on the decision.