Patent ID: 8837500

Claim:
A system comprising: a subscriber database comprising a processor operable to store subscriber profiles for end users of a communication network; the subscriber database further operable to store direction criteria defining conditions for directing service data flows to Packet Data Networks (PDN), to store mapping data associated with the direction criteria that includes information for directing the service data flows to the PDNs when a condition from the direction criteria is satisfied, and to store flow condition data indicating a status of the service data flows over the PDNs; the subscriber database further operable to transmit the direction criteria and mapping data to a network element in response to a query to allow the network element to direct a service data flow to a first PDN for a data service; the subscriber database is further operable to store redirection criteria defining conditions for redirecting service data flows among PDNs, and to store mapping data associated with the redirection criteria that includes information for redirecting service data flows from one PDN to another PDN; the subscriber database is further operable to transmit the redirection criteria and mapping data to the network element in response to another query to allow the network element to redirect the service data flow from the first PDN to a second PDN.