Patent ID: 8139525
Filing Date: 2012-03-20
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: providing service to access terminals on a plurality of carriers in a wireless coverage area; receiving a request from a first access terminal, the request indicating that the first access terminal is requesting a packet flow, the request comprising a packet-flow-type indication, wherein packet-flow-type indications are associated on a one-to-one basis with types of application-layer data carried by respective packet flows; determining whether the packet-flow-type indication is associated with an expedited-forwarding quality of service (QoS); and if the packet-flow-type indication is associated with an expedited-forwarding QoS, further determining that, among the plurality of carriers, a first carrier has the fewest ongoing packet flows having the packet-flow-type indication, and responsively instructing the first access terminal to conduct the requested packet flow on the first carrier.