Policy and charging rules node expired message handling

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9306756-B2
Application number	US-201313792405-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 11, 2013
Priority date	Feb 18, 2010
Publication date	Apr 5, 2016
Grant date	Apr 5, 2016

Abstract

Various exemplary embodiments relate to a method and related network node and machine-readable storage medium including a policy and charging rules node (PCRN) receiving a plurality of related service requests from different devices. The PCRN may proceed to generate a policy and charging control (PCC) rule based on at least one service request and other information stored in the PCRN if a mate service request does not arrive during the duration of a waiting timer. If the mate service request arrives subsequent to the expiry of the waiting timer, the PCRN may then generate a subsequent PCC rule to replace the previously generated rule, with the new PCC rule incorporating information from both of the mate service requests.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method performed by a policy and charging rules node (PCRN) for handling a request message, the method comprising:
receiving, through an Rx interface, a request message including a request from a user equipment (UE) requesting a new service data flow;
generating a first policy control and charging (PCC) rule based on first information carried by the request message and second information carried by a mate message, received at the PCRN through a Gx interf…

Assignees

• Alcatel Lucent
• Alcatel Lucent

Inventors

• Pandya Ajay Kirit
• Vihtari Mike

Classifications

• H04L12/1425

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L49/25

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L12/1403

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L12/14 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L12/1407 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic