Patent ID: 7688859

Claim:
A telecommunications system for providing a facility for communicating internet packet data with a mobile communications user equipment, the internet packet data carrying payload data including a plurality of different data types, the system comprising a gateway support node operable to provide an interface for communicating the data packets between the mobile communications user equipment and a packet data telecommunications network, a service support node operable to communicate the data packets between the gateway support node and the mobile communications user equipment using a radio network controller, the radio network controller being operable to provide a radio access bearer for communicating the data packets with the mobile communications user equipment, wherein at least one of the gateway support node and the mobile communications user equipment are operable to parse the payload data in each data packet to determine a number of the plurality of different data types and a number of data symbols in each of the different data types, to generate a radio access bearer sub-flow indicator providing an indication of the number of different types of data in the payload and the number of symbols in each different data type, to form a transport frame for each data packet by combining the payload data for each data packet with the sub-flow indicator, the transport frame being used to communicate each data packet between the gateway support node and the radio network controller via the service support node, and the data packets are communicated between the radio network controller and the mobile communications user equipment by detecting the sub-flow indicator, and in accordance with the sub-flow indicator arranging for the data from each of the different data fields to be communicated via a different radio access bearer providing different quality of service parameters appropriate for the different data type.