Patent ID: 8391297

Claim:
A method for transmitting an extended protocol message to control subscriber services of a connection-oriented Ethernet including a plurality of nodes, the method comprising: receiving, by a first node, one of the plurality of nodes, a label switched path (LSP) generation request message from an external source; generating, by the first node, a path message including an object for delivery of upstream service frame information and an object modified for the transmission of traffic information of a service frame for downstream traffic policing, the path message including the LSP generation request message; generating, by a second node which is one of the plurality of nodes and receives the path message from the first node, a reservation (RESV) message including an object added for the transmission of a downstream service frame information and an object modified for the transmission of traffic information of a service frame for upstream traffic policing in response to the LSP generation request message; and transmitting, by the second node, the generated RESV message to the first node.