Patent ID: 8170568

Claim:
An apparatus in a control station for setting multi-channels in a network system, the apparatus comprising: a controller configured to (i) receive, from a mobile station, a request message to set a connection identifier for a multi-channel communication service, the request message comprising channel information that includes the number of channels to be used by the mobile station, (ii) calculate a bandwidth for the connection identifier according to the number of channels indicated in the request message received from the mobile station, and (iii) set the calculated bandwidth as a service bandwidth of the connection identifier; and a memory configured to store calculation information, based on which the bandwidth is calculated according to the number of channels, wherein the controller comprises: an extractor configured to extract the number of channels to be used by the mobile station from the request message received from the mobile station, a calculator configured to calculate the bandwidth of the number of channels extracted by the extractor based on the calculation information in the memory, and a setter configured to set, when the request message to set a connection identifier is received, the bandwidth calculated by the calculator based on the calculation information in the memory as the service bandwidth of the connection identifier.