Patent ID: 9591516
Date: 2017-03-07
CPC Classifications: H04W

Claim:
1. A method for managing bearers in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: receiving a bearer request associated with a user equipment (UE), wherein the bearer request is associated with a service data flow (SDF); determining whether a value of a first quality of service parameter associated with the SDF is the same as a value of a corresponding first quality of service parameter of a bearer currently allocated to the UE; determining whether a value of a second quality of service parameter associated with the SDF is the same as a value of a corresponding second quality of service parameter of the bearer currently allocated to the UE; and in response to determining that the value of the first quality of service parameter associated with the SDF is the same as the value of the corresponding first quality of service parameter of the bearer currently allocated to the UE and determining that the value of the second quality of service parameter associated with the SDF is different than the value of the corresponding second quality of service parameter of the bearer currently allocated to the UE, modifying the value of the second quality of service parameter of the bearer currently allocated to the UE to produce a modified bearer and mapping the SDF to the modified bearer.