Patent ID: 8656451

Claim:
A policy application server in a communication network comprising: a policy management module for managing policies, wherein the policy management module for managing policies performs at least one of: provisioning the policies, resolving conflicts of the policies, and setting precedents within groups of the policies; a policy repository interface communicatively coupled to the policy management module and for transferring the policies between the policy management module and a policy repository; an assembly module for generating a policy rule based on the policies received from the policy management module and context data, in response to a request for the policy rule when a mobile data packet in a gateway sent over an access network bearer of a mobile data network is examined, wherein the context data comprises information related to a specific service session for a specific subscriber; and a decision engine interface for sending the policy rule to one of a plurality of policy decision engines, wherein the policy rule is applied to the mobile data packet related to a service data flow carrying the specific service session for the specific subscriber in the communication network.