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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 21, 2025
Filed:
Aug. 24, 2020
Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ), Stockholm, SE;
Miguel Angel Muñoz De La Torre Alonso, Madrid, ES;
TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL), Stockholm, SE;
Abstract
A method for operating a policy control entity () in a cellular network, the method comprising: —receiving subscriber data comprising a policy with an indication that a conditional Quality-of-Service handling is to be applied to a data packet session exchanged between a user equipment of a subscriber and an application in dependence on at least one condition, the sub-scriber data further comprising a charging indication used for charging the subscriber for the data packet session in dependence on the fact whether the conditional Quality-of-Service handling has been applied to the data packet session, —generating a policy and charging rule for the data packet session, the policy and charging rule comprising the conditional Quality-of-Service handling of the data packet session in dependence on the condition and the charging of the subscriber in dependence on the fact whether the conditional Quality-of-Service handling has been applied or not, —transmitting the generated policy and charging rule to a session management entity of the cellular network configured to manage the data packet session in the cellular network.