Patent ID: 9438522
Filing Date: 2016-09-06
CPC Classification: H04L,H04M

Claim Text:
1. A service processing method, comprising: obtaining by a Policy Control and Charging Rules Function (PCRF) entity, which includes a processor, policy context information of a service data stream, wherein the policy context information of the service data stream comprises at least one of: service type, service priority, user priority, and custom-defined priority; generating by the PCRF entity, bearer priority information on the service data stream according to the policy context information, wherein the bearer priority information designates a priority level of the service data stream within a bearer layer at a QoS level; and sending by the PCRF entity, the bearer priority information to a Policy and Charging Enforcement Function (PCEF) entity for discriminative handling the service data stream within the bearer layer along with other service data streams which are at the same QoS level; wherein the bearer priority information is set in a bearer priority information element; wherein the bearer priority information element is set into a bearer priority message directly or set into an existing information element; wherein a type of the bearer priority message is a Credit Control Answer (CCA) message, or a Re-Authentication Request (RAR) message; and wherein a type of the existing information element is a Charging-Rule-Definition Attribute Value Pair (AVP) information element, or an Authorized-Quality of Service (QoS) AVP information element; wherein discriminatively handling the service data stream within the bearer layer along with the other service data streams comprises: