Patent ID: 9596697
Date: 2017-03-14
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A user equipment (UE) comprising: a processor; a wireless communication stack; an application configured to be operated by the processor to send and receive packets of a packet flow; an application controller configured to be operated by the processor to determine, for the packet flow, a quality-of-service rule associated with the application and to configure a data bearer for the packet flow with a first quality-of-service specified by the quality-of-service rule for a first cell in a telecommunications network and a second quality-of-service specified by the quality-of-service rule for a second cell in the telecommunications network using one or more radio interface layer (RIL) extensions to communicate with and configure the data bearer; and a radio interface layer configured to be operated by the processor to implement the data bearer and to use the data bearer to transmit, via the wireless communication stack, a packet of the packet flow to a remote recipient; wherein the second quality-of-service is further based at least in part on one or more user quality-of-service preferences provided by a user; and wherein the one or more user quality-of-service preferences are used to (1) select a quality-of-service in a quality-of-service rule or (2) override the quality-of-service in the quality-of-service rule.