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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 18, 2014
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2010
Kalyan Premchand Siddam, Ottawa, CA;
Haiqing MA, Ottawa, CA;
Xiong Xue, Ottawa, CA;
David Huynh, Ottawa, CA;
Fernando Cuervo, Ottawa, CA;
Susan Patricia Ackerman, Ottawa, CA;
Kalyan Premchand Siddam, Ottawa, CA;
Haiqing Ma, Ottawa, CA;
Xiong Xue, Ottawa, CA;
David Huynh, Ottawa, CA;
Fernando Cuervo, Ottawa, CA;
Susan Patricia Ackerman, Ottawa, CA;
Alcatel Lucent, Paris, FR;
Abstract
The invention is directed to providing a method and apparatus for authorizing Quality of Service (QoS) at a Policy and Charging Rules Function (PCRF) node in response to receiving a service request for a subscriber having a requested QoS, a QoS Negotiation Attribute Value Pair (AVP) and a QoS Upgrade AVP such that the QoS Negotiation AVP takes precedence over the QoS Upgrade AVP.