Patent ID: 8650294

Claim:
A method in a client device for establishing a service specific configuration of end-to-end Quality of Service (QoS), wherein the client device is connected to a data network and supports a plurality of different services, and wherein the data network includes a service management server, the method comprising the steps of: sending a request message to the service management server, the request message comprising a service configuration request for one of the plurality of services selected by the client device; receiving an acknowledgement message from the service management server, the acknowledgement message comprising the service configuration requested by the client device and information regarding the service specific end-to-end QoS configuration for the selected service, wherein the service configuration information from the service management server comprises a destination address being associated with the requested service configuration, and the end-to-end QoS information in the service configuration information from the service management server comprises a QoS value for the selected service being associated with the destination address and to any intermediate node in the data network between the client device and the destination address; and configuring the selected service in the client device according to the QoS value from the service management server, thereby enabling the selected service to have service specific end-to-end QoS configuration starting from the client device, continuing at an intermediate node, and ending at the destination address.