Patent ID: 7802011

Claim:
A system, comprising: a subscriber equipment configured to initiate applications with associated quality of service flows in a multi-session connection; a configuration device configured to obtain, for each of said initiated applications, type of service settings of a network node hosting the initiated application, to track, for each of said initiated applications, the type of service settings, and to provide configuration information based on the type of service settings to the subscriber equipment in a packet data protocol context activation procedure for the initiated application, the configuration device being configured to send the configuration information as part of a specific message to the subscriber equipment, the configuration information being used to map uplink/downlink packet data for the initiated application to a packet data protocol context; and a gateway node configured to exchange packets between a packet data network system and the subscriber equipment, wherein the subscriber equipment is configured to provide the gateway node with the configuration information, and the gateway node is configured to route the packets in accordance with the configuration information.