Patent ID: 8675487

Claim:
A method of generating Policy and Control Charging (PCC) rules for managing packet traffic across a network, the method comprising: receiving a request message for PCC rules from a requesting network component, the message comprising: a first traffic mapping describing a flow of packets transmitted across the network, a second traffic mapping describing a second flow of packets transmitted across the network, an indication of a first requested bandwidth associated with the first traffic mapping, and an indication of a second requested bandwidth associated with at least the first traffic mapping and the second traffic mapping; authorizing the first requested bandwidth for the first traffic mapping; authorizing a third bandwidth for at least the second traffic mapping wherein the third authorized bandwidth is based on the difference between the second requested bandwidth and the first requested bandwidth; generating a first PCC rule comprising: a service flow filter corresponding to the first traffic mapping and the first authorized bandwidth; and generating a second PCC rule comprising: a service flow filter corresponding to the second traffic mapping and the third authorized bandwidth, wherein the first traffic mapping is one of a flow description field and a packet filter information field and the second traffic mapping is one of a flow description field and a packet filter information field, and wherein both traffic mappings are either the flow description fields or the packet filter information fields concurrently.