Patent ID: 7826353

Claim:
A method, comprising: receiving, by a policy control entity, a request by a gateway or communication control network element for an authorization for connection parameters, wherein at least one service data flow is used in a communication connection from a user equipment to the gateway or communication control network element and the communication connection aggregates multiple service flows; deciding, in the policy control entity, on the connection parameters to be authorized for the communication connection and on service data flows that can be provided for the communication connection; and sending a decision message from the policy control entity to the gateway or the communication control network element, wherein the decision message is processed to enforce a decision of the policy control entity in the communication connection, and wherein the decision message comprises an information portion for each service data flow from which, for the each service data flow, it is derived that for at least one of service data flows the policy control entity is to be consulted for a further authorization to admit the at least of service flows.