Patent ID: 7756040

Claim:
An apparatus for relaying information in a network environment, comprising: a gateway general packet radio service (GPRS) support node (GGSN) operable to: establish primary and secondary packet data protocol (PDP) links on behalf of an end user; and communicate traffic pattern information associated with the primary and secondary PDP links to a client services packet gateway (CSPG) through one or more control path interfaces of the GGSN to the CSPG by adding the traffic pattern information into traffic flows communicated through the one or more control path interfaces of the GGSN to the CSPG, the CSPG being external to and upstream from the GGSN, the traffic pattern information: providing data associated with how traffic flows propagating via each of the primary and secondary PDP links are to be treated in a information network; specifying a first quality of service level for the primary PDP link and a different second quality of service level for the secondary PDP link; and allowing the CSPG to provide at least one service according to one or more appropriate quality of service levels determined from the traffic pattern information, the CSPG operable to parse the traffic pattern information to determine the first quality of service level for the traffic flows propagating via the primary PDP link and the second quality of service level for the traffic flows propagating via the secondary PDP link.