Patent ID: 8811338

Claim:
A communication entity in a Proxy Mobile IP communication environment, comprising: means for notifying another communication entity that a wireless device intends to use a single Internet Protocol (IP) address for connections to multiple access gateways, wherein the wireless device has a plurality of IP sessions connected through a first access gateway; means for sending information that is related to at least one of the wireless device's IP flows to the other communication entity, wherein at least one of the plurality of IP sessions is moved to a connection with a second access gateway while at least one other of the plurality of IP sessions remains connected through the first access gateway: and means for performing a quality of service (QoS) negotiation between the wireless device and the second access gateway, wherein the means for performing a QoS negotiation comprises: means for mapping QoS rules and a corresponding traffic flow template to the connection between the wireless device and the second access gateway; and means for providing information instructing the wireless device to move data packets of the at least one of the plurality of IP sessions to the connection with the second access gateway while maintaining data packets of the at least one other of the plurality of IP sessions through the first access gateway.