Patent ID: 9032474
Filing Date: 2015-05-12
Classification: G06F,H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. An application server in a communication network, comprising: a policy management module for managing a plurality of policies, wherein the policy management module performs at least one of: provisioning the plurality of policies, resolving conflicts of the plurality of policies, and setting precedents within groups of the plurality of policies; a policy repository interface communicatively coupled to the policy management module and for transferring a policy of the plurality of policies between the policy management module and a policy repository; an assembly module for generating a policy rule based on at least one of the plurality of policies received from the policy management module and context data, in response to a request for the policy rule when a mobile data packet sent over an access network bearer of a mobile data network is examined, wherein the context data comprises information related to a service session for a subscriber; and a decision engine interface for sending the policy rule to a policy decision engine, wherein the policy rule is applied to the mobile data packet related to a service data flow carrying the service session for the subscriber in the communication network.