Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080232376 | CONTROL METHOD, SYSTEM AND FUNCTION ENTITY FOR REPORTING BEARER EVENT OF SIGNALING IP FLOW - A control method, system and function entity for reporting a bearer event of a signaling IP flow are provided. A 5-tuple is generated for a signaling IP flow and a media IP flow so as to unify a mechanism for reporting a signaling path status and a mechanism for reporting a bearer event of a media IP flow, so that the mechanism for reporting a signaling path status is not limited by the parameter of Flow Usage, the PDP context with a signaling tag, thereby establishing corresponding PCC rules for signaling and the association between a signaling IP flow and a bearer. A method for reporting a signaling path status is further provided in the invention. In the method, for a default PDP context or a PDP context of a signaling IP flow, the predefined PCC rules are activated or signaling PCC rules generated in accordance with an Application Function address are installed, thereby an IP signaling path status is reported in accordance with rule names of the predefine PCC rules or the signaling PCC rules. | 09-25-2008 |
20080310406 | Method And System For Implementing Self Service By Using Circuit Switched Terminal - A method and a system for implementing a self service by using a circuit switched terminal are provided. The method includes receiving a self-service signaling associated with a self service from a circuit switched terminal; and converting the self-service signaling to a self service request, which is adapted to indicate an IMS network entity associated with the self service to conduct a service data configuration; and sending the self service request to the IMS network entity associated with the self service. The solution provided enables a user using the conventional circuit switched terminal to conveniently implement the self service such as registration activation, registration cancellation, and authentication of the self service. | 12-18-2008 |
20090207841 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING MULTICAST BEARER RESOURCES - A method, apparatus, and system for controlling multicast bearer resources are disclosed, which employ a resource and admission control subsystem (RACS) to control the multicast bearer resources. The method includes: a network entity in a RACS receives a request for controlling multicast bearer resources from a bearer-layer network entity and controls the multicast bearer resources. The network entity in the RACS includes: a receiving unit adapted to receive a request for controlling multicast bearer resources from a bearer-layer network entity and a control unit adapted to control the multicast bearer resources. | 08-20-2009 |
20090274163 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING MULTICAST BEARER RESOURCES - A method, a system, and an apparatus for controlling multicast bearer resources are disclosed. The method includes: a network entity in the RACS receives a request of controlling a multicast bearer resource and controls the multicast bearer resource according to the request. The method, the system and the apparatus disclosed herein can control the multicast bearer resource in the NGN. | 11-05-2009 |
20090307746 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND DEVICE FOR IMPLEMENTING SECURITY CONTROL - A method, system and device for implementing security control are provided. The method for implementing security control includes: receiving, by the Policy and Charging Enforcement Function (PCEF) entity, security control policy information from the Policy Control and Charging Rules Function (PCRF) entity; and executing, by the PCEF entity, user security control according to the security control policy information. The provided method, system, and device may provide security control for the user session in the Policy Charging Control (PCC) architecture. | 12-10-2009 |
20100017846 | SERVICE PROCESSING METHOD AND SYSTEM, AND POLICY CONTROL AND CHARGING RULES FUNCTION - A service processing method, a service processing system, and a PCRF entity are disclosed to overcome this defect in the prior art: The prior art is unable to handle services discriminatively according to the policy context information when different services require the same QoS level. The method includes: receiving bearer priority information from a PCRF entity, where the bearer priority information includes: bearer priority information of a service data stream, bearer priority information of an IP-CAN session, and/or bearer priority information of an IP-CAN bearer; and handling services according to the bearer priority information. In the embodiments of the present invention, the policy context information is converted into bearer priority information so that the PCEF handles services according to the bearer priority information. In this way, different services that require the same QoS level are handled discriminatively according to the policy context information. | 01-21-2010 |
20100027542 | METHOD, DEVICE AND SYSTEM FOR MULTICAST SERVICE AUTHORIZATION CONTROL - A method, a device and a system for multicast service authorization control are provided, so as to support that a multicast authorization control point dynamically updates a user's multicast service authority information and implements multicast authorization control on the user according to the dynamically updated multicast service authority information. The method includes: acquiring a user's multicast service authority information by a multicast authorization control point in the process of interacting with a bearer control layer; and implementing multicast authorization control on the user by the multicast authorization control point according to the acquired multicast service authority information. The multicast authorization control point includes an acquisition unit adapted to acquire a user's multicast service authority information in the process of interacting with a bearer control layer; and an authorization control unit adapted to implement multicast authorization control on the user according to the multicast service authority information acquired by the acquisition unit. | 02-04-2010 |
20100039941 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND ENTITY OF REALIZING EVENT DETECTION - A method and a system of realizing event detection are provided, which detect a status of an Internet Protocol (IP) connectivity access network (IP-CAN) bearer corresponding to a policy and charging control (PCC) rule by binding an Event-Trigger parameter to the PCC rule, thereby realizing small-granularity detection for the specific PCC rule and reducing the load of the system. Furthermore, a status of the IP-CAN bearer or an IP flow is realized by binding the Event-Trigger parameter to an IP-CAN identifier (ID) or an IP flow ID, so as to avoid the problem about too large granularity of the binding of event detection and IP-CAN session and reduce the burden of the IP-CAN bearer detection and message exchange. | 02-18-2010 |
20100043053 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND ENTITY FOR EXERCISING POLICY CONTROL - A method and a system for exercising policy control, a policy and charging enforcement function (PCEF), and a policy control and charging rules function (PCRF) are provided, which can solve the problem that no policy control can be exercised over application service flows without an application function (AF). The method includes of the following steps: a PCRF receiving information about an application event sent by a PCEF; and the PCRF generating a control policy for a service flow of the application according to the information about the application event, and delivering the control policy to the PCEF. In the present invention, the PCEF sends the obtained information about the application event to the PCRF, so that even when no AF is involved, the PCRF can still generate a control policy according to policy contexts including the information about the application event and the like, so as to exercise an effective policy control over the QoS guarantee, charging and gating of the service flow, thus meeting the requirements of exercising the policy control over data applications with no AF being involved. | 02-18-2010 |
20100074110 | Control Method, System and Function Entity for Reporting Bearer Event of Signaling IP Flow - A control method, system and function entity for reporting a bearer event of a signaling IP flow are provided. Flow identifier information such as a 5-tuple is generated for a signaling IP flow and a media IP flow so as to unify a mechanism for reporting a signaling path status and a mechanism for reporting a bearer event of a media IP flow, so that the mechanism for reporting a signaling path status is not limited by the parameter of Flow Usage, the PDP context with a signaling tag, thereby establishing corresponding PCC rules for signaling and the association between a signaling IP flow and a bearer. A method for reporting a signaling path status is further provided in the invention. In the method, for a default PDP context or a PDP context of a signaling IP flow, the predefined PCC rules are activated or signaling PCC rules generated in accordance with an Application Function address are installed, thereby an IP signaling path status is reported in accordance with rule names of the predefine PCC rules or the signaling PCC rules. | 03-25-2010 |
20100186064 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR OBTAINING CAPABILITIES OF POLICY AND CHARGING ENFORCEMENT FUNCTION - A method for obtaining capabilities of a Policy and Charging Enforcement Function (PCEF) includes these steps: a Policy Control and Charging Rules Function (PCRF) obtains capability information of the PCEF; and the PCRF performs processing according to the capability information. A PCRF is also disclosed. With the present disclosure, the PCEF reports its capabilities in advance so that the PCRF makes policy decisions for a service or subscribes to appropriate application events from the PCEF when it knows the capabilities of the PCEF. This avoids possible subscription errors and decision failures arising when the PCRF is unable to know the capabilities of the PCEF. | 07-22-2010 |
20100299446 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING SERVICE DATA FLOWS TRANSMITTED IN A TUNNEL - The embodiments of present invention discloses a method for controlling service data flows transmitted in a tunnel, an information sending apparatus, an information enforcing apparatus, and an information reporting apparatus, and relates to the network communications field. With the embodiments of present invention, an access gateway (AGW) can implement correct policy control on data packets transmitted in a tunnel. The method for controlling service data flows transmitted in a tunnel includes: receiving policy information and identification information of service data flows transmitted in a tunnel; and enforcing policy operations on the service data flows according to the policy information and identification information of the service data flows transmitted in the tunnel. In the embodiments of present invention, a policy enforcement function (PEF) may identify data packets transmitted in a tunnel according to the received policy information and identification information. This solves the problem that the PEF cannot identify data packets transmitted in the tunnel in the prior art, and achieves the objectives of controlling the data packets transmitted in the tunnel, allocating access resources to the data packets, and improving the quality of service (QoS). | 11-25-2010 |
20130100862 | CONTROL METHOD, SYSTEM AND FUNCTION ENTITY FOR REPORTING BEARER EVENT OF SIGNALING IP FLOW - A control method, system and function entity for reporting a bearer event of a signaling IP flow are provided. Flow identifier information may be generated for a signaling IP flow and a media IP flow, to unify a mechanism for reporting a signaling path status and a mechanism for reporting a bearer event of a media IP flow. In the method, the mechanism for reporting a signaling path status is not limited by the parameter of Flow Usage. | 04-25-2013 |
20140064074 | SERVICE PROCESSING METHOD AND SYSTEM, AND POLICY CONTROL AND CHARGING RULES FUNCTION - A service processing method, a service processing system, and a PCRF entity are disclosed to overcome this defect in the prior art: The prior art is unable to handle services discriminatively according to the policy context information when different services require the same QoS level. The method includes: receiving bearer priority information from a PCRF entity, where the bearer priority information includes: bearer priority information of a service data stream, bearer priority information of an IP-CAN session, and/or bearer priority information of an IP-CAN bearer; and handling services according to the bearer priority information. In the embodiments of the present disclosure, the policy context information is converted into bearer priority information so that the PCEF handles services according to the bearer priority information. In this way, different services that require the same QoS level are handled discriminatively according to the policy context information. | 03-06-2014 |