Patent ID: 8085664
Filing Date: 2011-12-27
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A first wireless user equipment (UE) configured to initiate a packet based session, comprising: a reservation setup protocol (RSVP) message generator configured to transmit an RSVP PATH message to a second UE, the RSVP PATH message including a direction indication, the direction indicator indicating that reservations of resources are to be made for transmissions from the first UE to the second UE only, reservations of resources are to be made for transmissions from the second UE to the first UE only or reservations of resources are to be made for transmissions from both the first UE to the second UE and from the second UE to the first UE; and an RSVP message receiver configured to receive an RSVP RESV message from the second UE indicating that reservations have been made as a result of the RSVP PATH message, and wherein the resources for the transmissions are reserved as the RSVP RESV message is sent through at least one packet based network; and wherein session information is transmitted between the first UE and the second UE utilizing the reserved resources.