Patent ID: 8195811
Filing Date: 2012-06-05
Classification: H04L,H04Q,H04W

Abstract:
1. In a mobile telecommunications network a method of notifying a first policy enforcement point (PEP) node of policies and/or policy decisions made at a plurality of policy decision point (PDP) nodes, the PEP and the PDP nodes adapted to communicate with one another via an IP network using the Common Open Policy Service (COPS) protocol, the method comprising: establishing a single COPS connection between the PEP node and a coordination node also coupled to the IP network; establishing a COPS connection between the coordination node and each of the PDP nodes; sending decisions from the PDP nodes to the coordination node over the respective COPS connections and, at the coordination node, recording the sources of the decisions and forwarding the decisions to the PEP node over the COPS connection; and sending responses to decisions from the PEP node to the coordinating node over the single COPS connection and, at the coordinating node, identifying the source PDP nodes of the decisions based upon the recorded sources and forwarding the responses to the respective PDP nodes over the respective COPS connections.