Patent ID: 8811175

Claim:
A method for providing quality of service (QoS) control in a telecommunications network, said method comprising the steps of: detecting a new service data flow (SDF), initiated by a user equipment (UE), in the telecommunications network; requesting information regarding membership of the UE in a group; initializing one or more counters to monitor telecommunications network usage by the initiating UE and any other UEs in the same group; collecting telecommunications network usage data by the initiating UE and any other UEs in the same group in the one or more counters; comparing the one or more counters to pre-defined thresholds, and sending a notification to a user profile repository when the one or more counters reaches a pre-defined threshold; and changing QoS when any pre-defined threshold of the one or more counters is reached by updating a QoS Class Identifier (QCI) in the user profile repository in response to the notification, wherein the telecommunications network is an LTE network having a Subscriber Profile Repository (SPR) or a UDR, a Policy and Charging Rules Function (PCRF), an Online Charging System (OCS) and an Offline Charging System (OFCS) which interact to provide QoS, gating control and billing data for subscribers using the telecommunications network.