Nova Patents
EP1576839A4

Enhanced qos control

Abstract

The invention is a method and a system for the providing of service to user equipment (UE). A method of providing services to user equipment in accordance with the invention includes providing from a database ( 420 ) to a policy decision entity ( 405 ) subscriber information regarding permitted conditions for the users to obtain the services; providing service information from at least one network or server ( 100 ), regarding service offered by the at least one network or server to the user equipment, forming policy rules at the policy decision entity based upon the subscriber information and the service information. A requesting user equipment transmits a request for service to the communications network which is processed by the policy decision entity in accordance with the policy rules to determine if the service is to be allowed and if the service is allowed characteristics of the service to be provided to the requesting user equipment and the policy enforcement entity enforces at least one characteristic of an allowed service upon the communication network to insure that the allowed service obtained by the requesting user equipment has the at least one characteristic of the allowed service.

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Projected expiry passed 26 September 2023, 3 years ago.

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US2002036983A1CitesUnited States of AmericaXSearch report1-5,8,9,11-23,25-33,35-41,43-45,47-50
US2002062379A1CitesUnited States of AmericaASearch report1-50
"Digital cellular telecommunications system (Phase 2+); Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS); End to end Quality of Service (QoS) concept and architecture (3GPP TS 23.207 version 5.5.0 Release 5); ETSI TS 123 207", ETSI STANDARDS, EUROPEAN TELECOMMUNICATIONS STANDARDS INSTITUTE, SOPHIA-ANTIPO, FR, vol. 3-SA2, no. V550, September 2002 (2002-09-01), XP014007852, ISSN: 0000-0001Non-patent––Search report–
"Digital cellular telecommunications system (Phase 2+); Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS); Policy control over Go interface (3GPP TS 29.207 version 5.1.0 Release 5); ETSI TS 129 207", ETSI STANDARDS, EUROPEAN TELECOMMUNICATIONS STANDARDS INSTITUTE, SOPHIA-ANTIPO, FR, vol. 3-CN3, no. V510, September 2002 (2002-09-01), XP014009625, ISSN: 0000-0001Non-patent––Search report–
"Digital cellular telecommunications system (Phase 2+); Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS); IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS); Stage 2 (3GPP TS 23.228 version 5.6.0 Release 5); ETSI TS 123 228", ETSI STANDARDS, EUROPEAN TELECOMMUNICATIONS STANDARDS INSTITUTE, SOPHIA-ANTIPO, FR, vol. 3-SA2, no. V560, September 2002 (2002-09-01), XP014007876, ISSN: 0000-0001Non-patent––Search report–
"Digital cellular telecommunications system (Phase 2+); Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS); Numbering, Addressing and Identification (3GPP TS 23.003 version 5.4.0 Release 5); ETSI TS 123 003", ETSI STANDARDS, EUROPEAN TELECOMMUNICATIONS STANDARDS INSTITUTE, SOPHIA-ANTIPO, FR, vol. 3-CN2;3-CN4, no. V540, September 2002 (2002-09-01), XP014007384, ISSN: 0000-0001Non-patent––Search report–