Patent ID: 8570941

Claim:
An apparatus for facilitating network-based control of a forwarding policy, comprising: means for receiving access network-specific signaling that is related to an Internet Protocol (IP) flow; and means for deciding which of a plurality of physical interfaces within a mobile node that are respectively associated with multiple access networks to use to send the IP flow via an uplink communication link from the mobile node based on the access network-specific signaling when the physical interfaces within the mobile node have no associated IP addresses, wherein the access-network specific signaling comprises a bearer modification message that causes a bearer to be modified so that a Traffic Flow Template (TFT) no longer covers the IP flow, and wherein said means for deciding which of the plurality of physical interfaces within a mobile node that are respectively associated with the multiple access networks to use comprises means for interpreting the bearer modification message as a command to move the IP flow to another access network.