Patent ID: 8676187

Claim:
A method in a mobile device for updating a policy document to reflect changes to one or more policies for selecting an appropriate service bearer to carry mobile device traffic, comprising: receiving, on the mobile device, a policy document that is provided by a service provider, wherein the policy document contains one or more policies for selecting an appropriate service bearer to carry mobile device traffic; receiving, on the mobile device, one or more updates to the policy document, wherein the one or more updates are user-initiated or service-provider-initiated; determining whether each update to the policy document is user-initiated or service-provider-initiated; for one or more updates that are determined to be service-provider-initiated, modifying the policy document to reflect the service-provider-initiated updates; and for one or more updates that are determined to be user-initiated: determining whether a user-initiated update is permitted by the service provider; for one or more user-initiated updates that are determined to be permitted by the service provider, modifying the policy document to reflect the user-initiated update; and for one or more user-initiated updates that are determined not to be permitted by the service provider, disregarding the user-initiated update.