Patent ID: 6937566

Claim:
In a mobile radio communications system having plural mobile radio terminals communicating with a radio network over a radio interface using radio resources from a pool of radio resources allocated to the plural mobile radio terminals, where a mobile radio terminal communicates packet data with an external network by way of a packet gateway node associated with the radio network, a method comprising: establishing a packet session over the radio interface for the mobile radio terminal using radio resources from the pool during which plural application flows are communicated with an external network entity, each application flow having a corresponding stream of packets; defining a corresponding quality of service parameter for each of the plural application flows such that different quality of service parameters may be defined for different ones of the application flows; and determining whether radio resources from the pool are available to support the quality of service parameters defined for each of the plural application flows, wherein establishing the packet session includes: activating a packet session for the mobile radio terminal so that the mobile radio terminal is in communication with the gateway node, and the mobile radio terminal requesting an end-to-end configuration between the mobile radio terminal and the external network entity, and wherein the end-to-end configuration request establishes a network packet layer bearer between the mobile radio terminal and the gateway node permitting relay of data packets between the external network entity and the mobile radio terminal even though a network packet layer address is not assigned to the mobile radio terminal.