Patent ID: 8665726

Claim:
A method performed by a network element for dynamically configuring a Quality of Service (QoS) attribute of an Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) virtual circuit (VC) capable of carrying multiple point-to-point protocol (PPP) sessions, the method comprising: receiving, at the network element from an authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) server, a single message with a set of one or more subscriber circuit attributes for a first PPP session and a set of one or more parent circuit attributes for the ATM VC, wherein the set of subscriber circuit attributes and the set of parent circuit attributes are accessed from a single subscriber record stored by the AAA server, and wherein the set of parent circuit attributes includes a first QoS attribute for the ATM VC; and applying, at the network element, the first QoS attribute of the set of parent circuit attributes from the single subscriber record to the ATM VC as a currently applied QoS attribute, whereby the ATM VC is dynamically configured through the single subscriber record.