Patent ID: 7643411

Claim:
A method comprising: generating at an access gateway (AGW) a reservation message for an access terminal (AT), the reservation message comprising quality of service (QoS) reservation parameters, the QoS reservation parameters comprising at least one or more traffic filter templates (TFTs) and a QoS; communicating the reservation message from the AGW to the AT to initiate reservation of resources, the communication of the reservation message from the AGW to the AT enabling the AT to reserve QoS for an application that lacks QoS support; attempting to reserve QoS according to the QoS reservation parameters in the reservation message from the AGW, the attempt to reserve QoS comprising one or more processes originating at the AT; determining at the AT a result of the attempt to reserve QoS; generating at the AT a reservation confirmation message indicating the result of the attempt to reserve QoS; and communicating the reservation confirmation message from the AT to the AGW; receiving at an application server a request from the AT to invoke the application, the request not requesting QoS for the application; in response to the request from the AT, generating at the application server a policy request and communicating the policy request to a policy server; and generating at the policy server a policy message and communicating the policy message to the AGW to cause the AGW to generate the reservation message.