Patent ID: 8289861

Claim:
A method for managing quality of service (QoS) resources, the method comprising: with an access terminal, during a handoff from a QoS unaware system to a QoS aware system, said QoS aware system having been previously accessed by the access terminal: determining whether there are any allocated, unrequested QoS resources that remain allocated to an application on the access terminal by the QoS aware system but that are not currently requested by the application; if one or more allocated, unrequested QoS resources are identified, requesting that the QoS aware system release the one or more allocated, unrequested QoS resources; and in response to a determination that one or more requested, unallocated QoS resources are requested by the application but that are not allocated by the QoS aware system and that a point-to-point protocol (PPP) re-sync has not occurred since the access terminal was previously connected to the QoS aware system, requesting that the QoS aware system allocate the one or more requested, unallocated QoS resources to the application.