Patent ID: 7948952
Filing Date: 2011-05-24
Classification: H04M,H04W

Abstract:
1. A system, comprising: a detector configured to detect a change in a state of a connection between a terminal device and a gateway node of a packet data based communication network; a first transmitter configured to send, in response to the change, a service policy request for said terminal device from the gateway node to a session controller; a generator configured to generate, at the session controller, in response to the service policy request, at least one service policy, wherein the at least one service policy is generated based on at least one of the service policy request, subscription data received by the session controller in response to a subscription data request from the session controller to a subscription database, and preconfigured information at the session controller, wherein said at least one service policy comprises service information indicating service entities which are to be utilized for providing services to said terminal device and an order in which the service entities are to be utilized for providing services to said terminal device; a second transmitter configured to transmit the at least one service policy to the gateway node; and a provider configured to provide, at the indicated service entities, services in the indicated order, wherein the gateway node is configured to determine which service rules included in the received at least one service policy have to be indicated to the service entities, and to send said determined service rules to the respective service entities to process the packet data in the order indicated by the service information of said at least one service policy.