Patent ID: 7792025

Claim:
A method of negotiating admission control in a multi-services communications network comprising: providing to a distributed session admission control proxy (SAC-M) node a previously granted resource information associated with a requesting application; storing a local policy for granting resources in the SAC-M node; sending, by the requesting application, a session request to the SAC-M node; evaluating, at the SAC-M node, the session request relative to the previously granted resource information; sending, from the SAC-M node to the SAC-PDP node, the session request; evaluating, at the SAC-PDP node, the session request relative to the an available resources information; making local decisions regarding whether to allow the session request based on the evaluation related to the stored local policy; and responsive to said evaluating indicating that the previously granted resource information is available, granting the requesting application a resource reservation sufficient to satisfy the session request.