Patent ID: 8462798
Filing Date: 2013-06-11
Classification: H04L,H04M,H04Q,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: distinguishing different control plane sessions by a user equipment; identifying media flows of a same application among the different control plane sessions by the user equipment by setting a service identifier; sending the service identifier by the user equipment to a call state control function comprising a policy decision function; authorizing quality of service for a user plane context by the policy decision function, wherein the authorized quality of service corresponds to the quality of service requested by a session requesting a highest quality of service, the quality of service being related to a guaranteed bit rate; and enabling, by the policy decision function based on the service identifier, the different control plane sessions with media flows of the same application to share the same user plane context with the authorized quality of service to multiplex the different control plane sessions with media flows of the same application.