Patent ID: 8797917

Claim:
A method for a terminal to negotiate application support ability with a base station comprising: identifying by both the terminal and the base station the following application subtypes using different subtype values during session negotiation between the terminal and the base station: an alternate enhanced multi-flow packet application subtype, an alternate multi-flow packet application subtype, and an alternate multi-link multi-flow packet application subtype, wherein the alternate enhanced multi-flow packet application subtype indicates that an enhanced multi-flow packet application subtype has interoperation ability; the alternate multi-flow packet application subtype indicates that a multi-flow packet application subtype has the interoperation ability; the alternate multi-link multi-flow packet application subtype indicates that a multi-link multi-flow packet application subtype has the interoperation ability; wherein the alternate multi-flow packet application subtype is identified using any one of 0xFFFE, 0xFFFD, or 0xFFFC; the alternate multi-flow packet application subtype is identified using any one of 0xFFFE, 0xFFFD, or 0xFFFC, which is different from a value of the alternate enhanced multi-flow packet application subtype; and the alternate multi-link multi-flow packet application subtype is identified using any one of 0xFFFE, 0xFFFD, or 0xFFFC, which is different from a value of the alternate enhanced multi-flow packet application subtype and a value of the alternate multi-flow packet application subtype.