Patent ID: 7990913

Claim:
A mobility manager for use in providing mobility management of mobile nodes which have subscribed to a communications service, a level of a communications session provided within the communications service being controlled in accordance with bandwidth allocated for the mobility-managed mobile nodes by the mobility manager from an access point to which the mobility-managed mobile nodes are attached, wherein the mobility manager is operable to receive traffic shaping report messages from a traffic shaper within an access network of which the access point forms part, the traffic shaping report messages reporting on a current use of bandwidth for each of a plurality of different traffic types by one or more non mobility-managed mobile nodes of an unregulated network, which are not controlled by the mobility manager, and reporting on bandwidth used by one or more of the mobility-managed mobile nodes of a regulated network, which are managed by the mobility manager, to adapt the traffic pattern in accordance with a current use of bandwidth for the different traffic types by the non mobility-managed mobile nodes, and to communicate the adapted traffic pattern to the traffic shaper for use in controlling the bandwidth of the access point in accordance with the adapted traffic pattern.