Patent ID: 7330453

Claim:
A system for providing a user of a communications device with access to at least one data network application over a packet data network, the system comprising: an access network operable to provide the user with access to local network services as a subscriber to a service provider, the access network being operable to detect a request for access to the at least one data network application and to establish a packet-based connection to a data network interface device in response to the request; a call control client resident on the communications device operable to send a data session request over the packet-based connection to a call control server connected to the packet data network; and a call control server agent comprising a subset of functions performed by the call control server in accordance with a call control protocol, the call control server agent being resident on the data network interface device and being operable to receive the data session request and to establish a data session with a resource on the packet data network that implements the at least one data network application, wherein the call control server agent signals a data session status and the data network interface device comprises a quality of service (QoS) process operable to receive the data session status and to implement a selected set of QoS parameters on the data session.