Patent Document ID: 9449301
Application ID: 12776069

Base Claim:
1. A method performed by a policy and charging rules node for providing managed object support, the method comprising: determining, at a policy and charging rules node, that the policy and charging rules node should perform a policy decision; comparing a criteria portion of at least one rule of a plurality of rules to a set of context information; identifying a rule of the plurality of rules that matches the set of context information; determining that a result portion of the identified rule includes a reference to a first managed object; retrieving the first managed object based on the reference to the first managed object, wherein the first managed object is stored separately from the identified rule; and using the first managed object as at least part of a result of the policy decision.

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Claim 4:
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first managed object provides at least one of a specific value and a variable to be used as at least part of a result of the policy decision.