Patent ID: 8644337

Claim:
A method of providing an Authorized Quality-of-Service (QoS) per QoS Class Identifier (QCI), the method comprising steps of: receiving a service request for a subscriber, said service request comprising a requested bandwidth and a requested QCI; retrieving from a Subscription Profile Repository (SPR), a subscriber profile for said subscriber; extracting a QCI limit for the requested QCI from said subscriber profile, wherein said QCI limit is applicable to a plurality of Internet Protocol Connectivity Access Network (IP-CAN) bearers with the QCI within an IP-CAN session of said subscriber; determining if currently-used bandwidth for the IP-CAN bearers with the QCI within the IP-CAN session of said subscriber plus said requested bandwidth is less than or equal to said QCI limit; and responsive to said determining step, provisioning said QCI limit as the authorized QoS per QCI.