Patent ID: 9264454
Filing Date: 2016-02-16
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method in a policy node for controlling a peer-to-peer communication involving media communication between a subscriber and one or more opposite peers, the method comprising: detecting that the peer-to-peer communication is activated for the subscriber by detecting signaling associated with an application function that is invoked to execute the peer-to-peer communication for the subscriber; determining session parameters for the media communication between said subscriber and the one or more opposite peers based on predefined peer-to-peer service rules, wherein the peer-to-peer service rules have been configured at the policy node as valid for said subscriber when executing peer-to-peer sessions with the one or more opposite peers, and wherein a policy negotiation is performed with the application function to determine said session parameters based on the predefined peer-to-peer service rules, and wherein a list of candidate peers available for communication with the subscriber is received from the application function during the policy negotiation and the candidate peers are considered according to the predefined peer-to-peer service rules; and ordering an access gateway configured to establish and control network resources, to implement said session parameters for the media communication between said subscriber and the one or more opposite peers, to control the media communication in accordance with the predefined peer-to-peer service rules.