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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 06, 2015
Filed:
May. 10, 2013
Alcatel-lucent Canada Inc., Ottawa, CA;
Haiqing H. Ma, Nepean, CA;
Alcatel Lucent, Boulogne-Billancourt, FR;
Abstract
Various exemplary embodiments relate to a method performed by a policy and charging rules node (PCRN) of updating a policy and charging control (PCC) rule. The method includes: receiving a filter update request comprising a new filter and a reference filter; matching the reference filter with a previously requested PCC rule; determining a set of filters associated with the service data flow; determining whether any filter of the set of filters is removed; and authorizing quality of service (QoS) information based on the remaining filters of the set of filters. Various exemplary embodiments relate to a non-transitory machine-readable storage medium encoded with instructions executable by a processor for performing the method.