Auxiliary host and sessions
AssigneeAlcatel-Lucent Canada Inc.
InventorsFelix Landry, Justin Newcomb, Hamdy Farid
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Abstract
A method for establishing a session between a policy and charging rules node (PCRN) and an auxiliary host, includes: receiving, at the PCRN, an application session request message from a packet data network gateway (PGW); establishing an access session with the packet data network gateway; receiving, at the PCRN, an auxiliary session request message from the auxiliary host; and establishing an auxiliary access session with the auxiliary host corresponding to the access session with the packet data network gateway.
Claims21
A method for establishing a session between a policy and charging rules node (PCRN) and an auxiliary host, the method comprising:
- receiving, at the PCRN, an application session request message from a packet data network gateway (PGW);
- establishing an access session with the packet data network gateway;
- receiving, at the PCRN, an auxiliary session request message from the auxiliary host;
- and
- establishing an auxiliary access session with the auxiliary host corresponding to the access session with the packet data network gateway.
A machine-readable storage medium encoded with instructions for execution on a policy and charging rules node (PCRN) for establishing a session between the PCRN and an auxiliary host, the machine-readable storage medium comprising:
- instructions for receiving, at the PCRN, an application session request message from a packet data network gateway (PGW);
- instructions for establishing an access session with the packet data network gateway;
- instructions for receiving, at the PCRN, an auxiliary session request message from the auxiliary host;
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- instructions for establishing an auxiliary access session with the auxiliary host corresponding to the access session with the packet data network gateway.
A system for establishing sessions between network nodes, comprising:
- a policy and charging rules node (PCRN) with a Gx interface and an auxiliary Gx interface;
- a packet data network gateway (PGW) in communication with the PCRN via the Gx interface;
- an auxiliary host in communication with the PCRN via the auxiliary Gx interface;
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- an auxiliary host server in communication with PGW and the auxiliary host, wherein the PGW requests an auxiliary host service by sending a request to an auxiliary host server and the auxiliary host server sends an auxiliary host service setup request to the auxiliary host.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.