Patent ID: 7437142

Claim:
A method, comprising: preventing barring of bearer establishment for an emergency session in a wireless communication system; receiving, when an emergency session is to be set up for a user equipment, an attach request or packet data protocol context activation request from the user equipment, the attach request or packet data protocol context activation request including an indication indicating that the session to be established is an emergency session; receiving said indication in a first network element, said first network element authorizing, or being controlled to authorize, bearer establishment in response to said indication; establishing a session after receiving attach request or packet data protocol context activation request comprising the indication indicating that the session to be established is an emergency session; checking that the established session established after the attach request or packet data protocol context activation request, is indeed an emergency session; and when the checking indicates that the session established after the attach request or packet data protocol context activation request is no emergency session, forcibly terminating the established session.