Patent ID: 7546376

Claim:
A method for setting up a multimedia session involving a mobile terminal, comprising: using session signaling, initiating a multimedia session with plural media data streams between the mobile terminal and a remote host coupled to a packet data network, the mobile terminal being coupled to the packet data network and to a multimedia system that provides multimedia session services by way of an access point; establishing a plurality of media packet access bearers to transport corresponding ones of the media data streams between the mobile terminal and the access point; creating media binding information for each media data stream; and using the media binding information to associate each media data stream in the session to one of the media packet access bearers to provide session-based control of each of the media packet access bearers, wherein the media binding information corresponding to one of the media data streams identifies the multimedia session and the one media data stream, and wherein if a parameter of one of the media data streams changes, the corresponding media binding identifier changes.