Patent ID: 7324498

Claim:
An apparatus for reordering traffic flow templates (TFTs) in a mobile communication system including a primary General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) tunneling protocol (GTP) tunnel for transmitting and receiving packet data to and from a mobile station and one or more secondary GTP tunnels having the same mobile station address as the primary GTP tunnel and each being divided into different TFTs, the TFTs each including different packet filter contents so that the secondary GTP tunnels are separated using TFT packet filtering, the apparatus comprising: a controller adapted to sequentially perform TFT packet filtering on input packet data for the TFTs; manage statistical data of packet data that are successfully TFT packet filtered for the TFTs; reorder an order of the TFTs by comparing the statistical data of the packet data that are successfully TFT packet filtered for the TFTs if a preset period expires; and a memory adapted to store packet filter contents for each of the TFTs, and store statistical data for packet data that are successfully TFT packet filtered for each of the TFTs.