Patent ID: 7813759

Claim:
An apparatus for providing network access and application session services, comprising: a wireless network access device for receiving packet data streams from or transmitting packet data streams to one or more subscribers, and for conveying the packet data streams to or from a network or other subscribers, wherein the wireless network access device includes profile information relating to the one or more subscribers; a plurality of application session services being a component of the wireless network access device, wherein each application session service comprises an application state regarding the state of the respective service; wherein the wireless network access device selects, based on the profile information, two or more of the application session services to process the packet data streams, and wherein the wireless network access device determines a preferred order for executing the selected application session services, and arranges the selected application session services to execute in the preferred order, and wherein the wireless network access device controls the actions of at least one of the application session services based at least in part on the application state of a different one of the application session services.