Patent ID: 8457109

Claim:
A system for providing access by a user to a multimedia service comprising: a user device configured to establish a mobile IP connection with an access network, acquire an identity of the access network, transmit the identity of the access network to a session initialization proxy server, launch a multimedia service, and provide an identity of the multimedia service to the session initialization proxy server; a home subscriber server having a database including access network identities and associated supported multimedia service identities; the session initialization proxy server configured to query the home subscriber server for authorization of the multimedia service, determine whether the multimedia service is supported by the access network by: (a) filtering bearer level resource authorization based on the access network identity, and (b) filtering the multimedia service authorization based on the multimedia service identity, authorize resources in the access network required by the service if the service is supported, reject the service if the service is not supported and if a policy associated with the access network requires unsupported services to be rejected; and authorize a predetermined default level of resources corresponding to policy limits in the access network if the service is not supported and if the policy associated with the access network does not require unsupported services to be rejected; a policy function server configured to receive quality of service constraints from the session initialization proxy server and to supply corresponding quality of service parameters to an access gateway; and the access gateway configured to allocate the bearer level resources to support the multimedia service.