Patent ID: 7602711

Claim:
A method for resource reservation in customer request mode in a Next Generation Network (NGN) comprising: receiving, by a Resource Mediation Policy Decision Function (RM-PDF), a resource request containing resource request parameters through a Border Gateway Function (BGF); sending, by the RM-PDF, an admission installation instruction to the BGF to set admission decision parameters in the BGF for implementing resource reservation when the resource request complies with a customer configuration and network operation policy rules and there is available resource required by the resource request in a transmission network; receiving, by the RM-PDF, a resource modification request containing the resource request parameters modified through the BGF; and sending, by the RM-PDF, an admission modification instruction to the BGF to modify the admission decision parameters corresponding to the resource request parameters modified through the BGF for implementing resource reservation when the resource modification request complies with the customer configuration and the network operation policy rules and there is available resource required by the resource modification request in the transmission network.