US 12,452,091 B2
Quality of service dependent policy rules
Miguel Angel Muñoz de la Torre Alonso, Madrid (ES)
Assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL), Stockholm (SE)
Appl. No. 17/924,025
Filed by Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ), Stockholm (SE)
PCT Filed Aug. 24, 2020, PCT No. PCT/EP2020/073611
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Nov. 8, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/022840, PCT Pub. Date Feb. 3, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 20382680 (EP), filed on Jul. 28, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0179437 A1, Jun. 8, 2023
Int. Cl. H04L 12/14 (2024.01); H04M 15/00 (2024.01)
CPC H04L 12/1407 (2013.01) [H04M 15/66 (2013.01); H04M 15/8016 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. 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 subscriber 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; and
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.