Patent ID: 9699323
Date: 2017-07-04
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04M

Claim:
1. An apparatus comprising: a Policy and Charging Enforcement Function (PCEF) for an Evolved Packet Core (EPC) network that serves mobile User Equipment (UE); the PCEF connects to a Policy and Charging Rules Function (PCRF) of the EPC network, and connects to a charging system; the PCEF comprising a processor configured to receive a data flow of packets for a download of content requested by the UE, and to identify supplemental content in the data flow that was not requested by the UE; the processor is configured to trigger a new Policy and Charging Control (PCC) decision for the data flow in response to identifying the supplemental content, to generate a policy request, to insert information for the supplemental content in the policy request, to transmit the policy request to the PCRF for the new PCC decision, and to receive PCC rules for the data flow from the PCRF for the new PCC decision, wherein the PCC rules specify that the supplemental content is charged separately from the content requested by the UE; the processor is configured to generate a charging request, to insert charging information for the supplemental content in the charging request to report a chargeable event specific for the supplemental content, and to transmit the charging request to the charging system to charge for the supplemental content separately from the content requested by the UE.