Patent ID: 8913997

Claim:
A method, comprising: presenting to a user by means of a user interface a description of user options to modify a quality of experience of an existing service provided by a radio network for one or more application flows between the radio network and a mobile node used by the user, the options comprising: making a selection indicating a choice to decline to upgrade the existing service provided by the radio network to an upgraded service provided by the radio network enabled to support the one or more application flows with a higher quality of experience than supported by the existing service provided by the radio network; and making a selection indicating a choice to upgrade the existing service provided by the radio network to the upgraded service provided by the radio network enabled to support the one or more application flows with the higher quality of experience than currently supported by the existing service provided by the radio network; in response to selection by the user indicating a choice to upgrade the existing service provided by the radio network to the upgraded service provided by the radio network, performing one or more actions to upgrade the existing service provided by the radio network to the mobile node to the upgraded service; wherein presenting the description of user options is performed in response to a determination that the quality of experience is compromised, the determination being based on one or more of: recognition that the mobile node is not experiencing a quality of service of the existing service provided by the radio network sufficient to support a new application flow; and degradation of application performance for an application corresponding to the one or more application flows.