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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 2013
Filed:
May. 07, 2008
Q James HU, Sammamish, WA (US);
Douglas Eng, Sammamish, WA (US);
Terry Figurelle, Redmond, WA (US);
Michael Britt, Everett, WA (US);
Q James Hu, Sammamish, WA (US);
Douglas Eng, Sammamish, WA (US);
Terry Figurelle, Redmond, WA (US);
Michael Britt, Everett, WA (US);
AT&T Mobility II LLC, Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
A policy-enabled service gateway contains a gateway function and a local policy engine containing policies related to the functionality of the associated gateway function. New or updated policies may be provided to the local policy engine from a centralized policy server. The policies within the local policy engine are functionally related to the gateway function and provide for policy and/or charging enforcement associated with the gateway function. If the local policy engine does not contain a particular policy, it may request the policy from the centralized policy server. The local policy engine may choose to store the requested policy for future use.