Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Installation and enforcement of dynamic and static PCC rules in tunneling scenarios
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Application No.: US13884959Application Date: 2010-11-12
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Publication No.: US09787544B2Publication Date: 2017-10-10
- Inventor: Miguel Angel Muñoz de la Torre Alonso , Maria Esther Terrero Díaz-Chirón , Miguel Angel Recio Rodriguez
- Applicant: Miguel Angel Muñoz de la Torre Alonso , Maria Esther Terrero Díaz-Chirón , Miguel Angel Recio Rodriguez
- Applicant Address: SE Stockholm
- Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
- Current Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
- Current Assignee Address: SE Stockholm
- Agency: Patent Portfolio Builders PLLC
- International Application: PCT/IB2010/055154 WO 20101112
- International Announcement: WO2012/063106 WO 20120518
- Main IPC: G06F15/173
- IPC: G06F15/173 ; H04L12/24 ; H04L12/813 ; H04W12/08 ; H04L12/26 ; H04L29/06

Abstract:
A Policy and Charging Enforcement Function (PCEF) device of a network having a Policy and Charging Rules Function (PCRF) device. The PCEF device includes a processing unit that detects a tunneled packet and the packet's Internet Protocol version type and determines whether activation of PCC rules in accordance with the IP version type of the tunneled packet is required from the PCRF device. The PCEF device includes a network interface unit in communication with the processing unit and the network that requests from the PCRF device required activation of PCC rules and identifies the IP version type of the tunneled packet to the PCRF device with the request and receives from the PCRF device the PCC rules activation. The processing unit enforces the PCC rules on the tunneled packet. Methods of handling and enforcing rules at a PCEF device of a network and at a PCRF device are also disclosed.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140317269A1 Installation and Enforcement of Dynamic and Static PCC Rules in Tunneling Scenarios Public/Granted day:2014-10-23
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