Patent ID: 8769123

Claim:
An apparatus for facilitating bearer setup initiated by a network, the apparatus comprising: a bearer setup request generator, comprising hardware, associated with at least one application-level entity, said bearer setup request generator configured to: generate an application-level bearer setup request to induce a selected bearer manager to create a bearer between a first node and a second node, wherein the application-level bearer setup request is free of network address identifiers for the selected bearer manager; and provide the application-level bearer setup request to at least one first transport-level entity; wherein, upon receiving the application-level bearer setup request, the at least one first transport-level entity is configured to send a transport-level bearer setup request to at least one second-transport level entity; and wherein the at least one first transport-level entity is associated with a home network of the first node, and wherein the second transport-level entity is associated with a visited network of the first node.