Patent ID: 8923879

Claim:
A method for controlling services, comprising: obtaining, by a policy control and charging rules function entity PCRF, congestion state information on a cell, resource-related information on the cell, and subscriber-related information on a user equipment UE in an activated state in the cell that are sent by an access network device; generating, by the PCRF, a quality of service QoS policy and/or a charging policy for the UE in the activated state in the cell according to the congestion state information on the cell, the resource-related information on the cell, and the subscriber-related information on the UE in the activated state in the cell; and sending, by the PCRF, the QoS policy and/or the charging policy to a policy and charging enforcement function entity PCEF, so as to enable the PCEF to execute the QoS policy and/or the charging policy.