Patent ID: 8305918

Claim:
A method of configuring a quality-of-service profile of a given stream, said method including: a step of a user gateway receiving a packet with a default quality-of-service profile from an access node in a packet communications network, said user gateway connecting user devices to the access node and being the destination of said stream, and wherein said packet belongs to said stream and said stream corresponds to packets sent from the access node to the user gateway and having common characteristics; a step of the user gateway determining an identifier of the stream from the received packet; a step triggered by the reception of the packet by the user gateway from the access node in which, at the user gateway's own initiative upon reception of the packet, the user gateway determines from the determined identifier of the stream a quality-of-service profile to be associated with further packets of the given stream sent from the access node to the user gateway, following reception of the received packet from the access node; a step in which the user gateway sends to the access node the quality-of-service profile associated with the stream, as determined in this way; and a step of the user gateway receiving the further packets of the stream from the access node according to the quality of service profile sent by the user gateway to the access node and associated with the stream.