Patent ID: 8924520

Claim:
A method for configuring a Quality of Service (QoS) parameter, comprising: receiving, by a remote access server (RAS) of a first network, of a QoS configuration request message sent by a QoS management device, wherein the QoS configuration request message comprises a QoS parameter configured for a data traffic by the QoS management device; completing, by the RAS of the first network, QoS configuration according to the QoS parameter in the configuration request message and directly returning a response message to the QoS management device without waiting for a configuration completion message returned by a second network; and sending, by the RAS of the first network, data traffic description information of the data traffic to the second network according to the QoS configuration request message, to enable the second network to perform QoS configuration of the second network with reference to the data traffic description information.