Patent ID: 8325688

Claim:
A method in a wireless communication system, comprising: receiving, from a mobile station at a packet data serving node (PDSN), a resource request for a communication service, the resource request including an identifier uniquely identifying a type of communication service and an address of an application entity configured to allocate resources for the communication service, the resource request further comprising a session identifier associated with the resource request, wherein the PDSN is ignorant of the type of communication service requested by the mobile station; selecting a policy control entity to process the resource request from among a plurality of policy control entities, each of the plurality of policy control entities configured to perform policy control for a single, different service type, respectively, the selecting being based at least on the identifier of the type of communication service; and sending from the PDSN to the selected policy control entity a policy control request to request policy control based on the resource request, the policy control request including the address of the application entity configured to allocate the resources for the communication service.