Patent ID: 6888807

Claim:
A method for identifying and applying session services bidirectionally to a wireless link comprising: establishing a connection including the wireless link, the wireless link being terminated at one end by an access terminal and at another end by a base station; at both the access terminal and the base station, receiving a message for transmission via the connection; attempting to identify a packet flow over the wireless link corresponding to the received message from a plurality of transmission profiles, each of the plurality of transmission profiles defining a packet flow and mapping the packet flow to at least one session service that is to be applied to messages of the packet flow; selecting the at least one session service mapped to the identified packet flow of a corresponding transmission profile; applying the mapped session service to the received message; wherein if a packet flow fails to be identified for the received message, the method further comprises: generating a first transmission profile and a second transmission profile, the first and second transmission profiles each defining a new packet flow corresponding to the received message, the first transmission profile mapping the new packet flow to a first set of session services, the second transmission profile mapping the new packet flow to a second set of session services that are complementary to the first set of session services; and sending a traffic flow mapping message to an opposing end of the wireless link, the traffic flow mapping message including the second transmission profile, thereby enabling the opposing end of the wireless link to identify messages of the new packet flow and to apply a complementary set of session services to the messages of the new packet flow.