Patent ID: 8724467

Claim:
A method, comprising: identifying an Internet protocol (IP) address for each of a plurality of serving gateways; establishing a link between the serving gateways and a congestion notification element; monitoring packets in order to identify whether a differentiated services code point (DSCP) bit has been set in the packets and to evaluate error rates for the packets; aggregating congestion information from the serving gateways based, at least in part, on the monitoring; determining, based, at least in part, on the aggregating, that a pre-congestion threshold associated with congestion in a network has been exceeded; and communicating, based, at least in part, on the determining, a signal to a particular serving gateway associated with the congestion wherein the serving gateway is configured to correlate the congestion with identifiers associated with end users operating in the network, and wherein the serving gateway communicates another signal to another network element to reduce the congestion.