Patent ID: 8498286

Claim:
A method of enabling a communication session for a wireline device, comprising: receiving at a Radius gateway a Radius message from the wireline device; at the Radius gateway, translating the Radius message into a Network Access Server Request (NASReq) message; selecting one of at least one PCRF cluster within a Policy and Charging Rules Function (PCRF) server to handle a communication session identified by the NASReq message, the selected PCRF cluster being configured to handle communication sessions for wireless devices; passing the NASReq message to the selected PCRF cluster; determining whether a NASReq session object related to the communication session identified by the NASReq message exists; if it is determined that such a NASReq session object does not exist, creating such a NASReq session object; and if it is determined that such a NASReq session object does exist, updating the NASReq session object to reflect information in the NASReq message.