Patent application number | Description | Published |
20110099604 | ACCESS CONTROL METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PACKET DATA NETWORK, PCRF ENTITY - An access control method and system for packet data network, Policy and Charging Rules Function (PCRF) entity, the method includes: a policy and charging rules function entity receiving an indication of gateway control session establishment from a bearer binding and event report function entity, wherein the indication of gateway control session establishment carries a session identifier, and the session identifier is used to identify whether a user equipment accesses the same packet data network again or the bearer binding and event report function entity relocation occurs; the policy and charging rules function entity receiving the indication of gateway control session establishment, acquiring the session identifier, and judging whether the user equipment accesses the same packet data network again or the bearer binding and event report function entity relocation occurs according to the session identifier. | 04-28-2011 |
20110161504 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IDENTIFYING SESSION INFORMATION - A method and an apparatus for identifying session information are disclosed by the present invention, wherein the method includes: a sending end PCRF sends an S9 session message to a receiving end PCRF in order to transmit the Diameter session information, wherein the S9 session message carries the identification information identifying the Diameter session uniquely; the receiving end PCRF determines the Diameter session corresponding to the Diameter session information carried by the S9 session message according to the identification information. By the present invention, when the receiving end PCRF issues the policy control information, it issues the policy control information to a corresponding Gxx session or AF session according to the unique identification information carried by the S9 session, thereby it can consummate the application flow of the realization of the S9 roaming interface in the policy charging control frame. | 06-30-2011 |
20120102174 | Policy And Charging Control Method And System For Multi-PDN Connections Of Single APN - The present invention provides a method and a system for performing policy and charging control for establishing multiple PDN connections to a single APN, the method associates the gateway control session with the subsession in the S9 session associated with the Gx session modified by the indication of IP-CAN session modification message through the PDN Connection ID, thereby, after the relocation occurs on the BBERF making the modified PCC rule be sent down to the PCEF through the associated Gx session and the modified QoS be sent down to the destination BBERF through the gateway control session, thereby implementing the policy and charging control when establishing multiple PDN connections to the single APN in the roaming scenario. | 04-26-2012 |
20120106508 | Method and System for Deleting Redundant Information of Home Policy and Charging Rules Function - The present invention discloses a method and a system for deleting redundant information of a home Policy and Charging Rule Function (PCRF). The Bearer Binding and Event Report Function (BBERF) in a visited network indicates gateway control session termination to the home PCRF through a visited PCRF after receiving a termination session triggering for determining to terminate a gateway control session between the BBERF in the visited network and the visited PCRF, and the home PCRF deletes policy control information related to the BBERF in the visited network. With the method of the present invention, the invalid session information in the home PCRF is cleared in time, which eliminates the redundancy of the home network resources and saves the home network resources. | 05-03-2012 |
20120176973 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING MULTIPLE ACCESS, HOME AGENT AND USER EQUIPMENT - A method for processing multiple access, a home agent and user equipment are disclosed in the present invention. The method includes the following steps: when a user equipment establishes a mobile internet protocol version 6 (MIPV6) security association with a home agent, the home agent sends first indication information to the user equipment, wherein the first indication information is used to indicate to the user equipment that the home agent is able to support multi-registration flow binding. The present invention can improve the system efficiency. | 07-12-2012 |
20120233324 | Method and system for implementing usage monitoring control - The present disclosure provides a method for implementing usage monitoring control, comprising: a PCRF makes a usage monitoring policy for each IP-CAN session or service data flow that shares a total allowanced usage according to the obtained total allowanced usage shared by multiple users, and the PCRF sends the usage monitoring policy to a PCEF ( | 09-13-2012 |
20120233325 | Method and system for implementing usage monitoring control - The present disclosure discloses a method for implementing usage monitoring control, a total allowanced usage is prestored in a Subscription Profile Repository (SPR), the SPR sets an allowanced usage threshold according to a request from a Policy and Charging Rules Function (PCRF) and distributes the set allowanced usage threshold to the PCRF; the PCRF makes a usage monitoring policy according to the obtained allowanced usage threshold; after receiving a usage report of the PCRF, the SPR deducts a consumed usage from the total allowanced usage shared by multiple users. The present disclosure also provides a system for implementing usage monitoring control. Through the solution of the present disclosure, when multiple users share a total allowanced usage, PCRF simultaneously monitors the usage on the multiple users according to the total allowanced usage, thereby avoiding conflicts in policy and charging controls. | 09-13-2012 |
20120233337 | Method and system for policy and charging control based on time period - The disclosure discloses a method for Policy and Charging Control (PCC) based on a time period, which comprises: when a Policy and Charging Rule Function (PCRF) entity provides Quality of Service (QoS) rules to a Bearer Binding and Event Reporting Function (BBERF) entity, a time indication of activation and/or deactivation of the QoS rules is provided at the same time. The disclosure also discloses a system for PCC based on a time period, which comprises: a providing unit located in the PCRF entity and configured to provide QoS rules and a time indication of activation and/or deactivation of the QoS rules to the BBERF entity at the same time. The disclosure ensures the consistency between the time of activating the QoS rules by the BBERF entity and the time of activating the PCC rules by the Policy and Control Enforcement Function (PCEF) entity, and the technical scheme is simple and practical. | 09-13-2012 |
20120297076 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR SELECTING POLICY AND CHARGING RULES FUNCTION ENTITY - This disclosure discloses a method, an apparatus and a system for selecting a Policy and Charging Rules Function (PCRF) entity. The method comprises: when an IP Connectivity Access Network (IP-CAN) session is established for a User Equipment (UE), the Diameter Routing Agent (DRA) receives a message from a gateway, and selects the PCRF entity for the IP-CAN session according to the main identifier in the message, wherein the UEs sharing the subscription information have the same main identifier. This disclosure can solves the problem that a conflict is caused in PCC since different PCRF entities are used for the PCC when multiple users share the subscription information. | 11-22-2012 |
20130021916 | Method and System for Obtaining Network Loads - The disclosure provides a method and system for obtaining network loads, comprising: a Load Detection Function (LDF) detects the user plane data of User Equipment (UE) and reports the load condition of a network which the UE currently accesses to a policy server according to the detected congestion indication. With the method in the disclosure, the policy server obtains the network loads condition, so that the quality of service is guaranteed. | 01-24-2013 |
20130078998 | Method and system for reporting fixed network access information - The disclosure provides a method for reporting fixed network access information, in which an Evolved Packet Data Gateway (ePDG) reports fixed network access information to a Policy and Charging Enforcement Function (PCEF), and the PCEF notifies a Policy and Charging Rule Function (PCRF) of the fixed network access information. The disclosure also provides a system for reporting fixed network access information, in which a reporting unit is configured to allow an Evolved Packet Data Gateway (ePDG) to report fixed network access information to a Policy and Charging Enforcement Function (PCEF), which notifies a Policy and Charging Rule Function (PCRF) of the fixed network access information. According to the disclosure, the fixed network access information can be reported, so that an S | 03-28-2013 |
20130094487 | Method and System for Information Transmission - The present invention discloses a method and system for information transmission. Said method includes: an Evolved Packet Data Gateway (ePDG) notifying a Policy and Charging Rules Function (PCRF) entity of the location information of a User Equipment (UE); the PCRF entity sending the location information of the UE to a Broadband Policy Control Function (BPCF) entity. The method and system provided by the present invention solve the problem that the BPCF in a fixed network can not initiate an S9* session to the PCRF entity. | 04-18-2013 |
20130103846 | Method for Policy and Charging Rules Function (PCRF) Informing Centralized Deployment Functional Architecture (BPCF) of User Equipment Access Information - A system and method for performing quality of service control on a user equipment are provided in the present invention. The method includes: after establishing an Internet Key Exchange version 2 (IKEv2) security association between the user equipment and a packet data network gateway to establish an Internet Protocol Security (IPSec) tunnel, the packet data network gateway sending IPSec tunnel information to a Policy and Charging Rules Function (PCRF), the PCRF then sending the IPSec tunnel information to a Broadband Policy Control Function (BPCF), and the BPCF performing quality of service control on services of the user equipment according to the received IPSec tunnel information. With the technical scheme of the present invention, it enables the BPCF to acquire tunnel information of the user equipment and then perform quality of service control on the user equipment. | 04-25-2013 |
20130115914 | Control Method for Home Base Station Access and Home Base Station Gateway - A control method for H(e)NB access and a H(e)NB gateway are provided in the present invention. The method includes the following steps: a H(e)NB gateway interacting with a Broadband Policy Control Framework (BPCF) through a H(e)NB policy function, and requesting for the admission control of a fixed broadband access network; the BPCF returning the result of the admission control to the H(e)NB gateway through the H(e)NB policy function. The present invention performs policy control for the service access of the User Equipment (UE) accessing via the H(e)NB. | 05-09-2013 |
20130142046 | Policy control method and system for accessing fixed broadband access network - The disclosure provides a policy control method and a policy control system for accessing a fixed broadband access network. The policy control method includes: a FMC PF used for sensing the access of UE to a fixed broadband access network is set in a mobile network which a user requests to be accessed to; after the FMC PF receives a trigger message from an ePDG, the FMC PF requests a BPCF to establish a policy session, and the BPCF performs, policy control according to the information of the fixed broadband access network accessed by the UE. It can be seen from the method of the disclosure that when the UE is accessed to the 3GPP through the fixed broadband access network, the FMC PF senses a gateway control session establishment request message or a DHCP request message from the ePDG, so that a PCRF of the 3GPP access network accessed by the UE is triggered to send a policy session request to the BPCF. In this way, in the case that the fixed broadband access network fails to sense the access of the UE or that the fixed broadband access network does not support 3GPP-based access authentication in the conventional art where the UE is accessed to a 3GPP core network through the fixed broadband access network, QoS control is achieved for the access of the UE, and thus QoS guarantee is provided to the entire transmission path of data. | 06-06-2013 |
20130145038 | Method and system for establishing session - A method for establishing a session is disclosed, in which the first policy server sends a request message to the second policy server when needing to establish the session with the second policy server, for requesting the second policy server to initiate and establish a session with the first policy server; the second policy server initiates and establishes the session with the first policy server, based on the request message. A system for establishing a session is also disclosed. With the disclosure, even if the first policy server cannot establish a session with the second policy server, it may send a request to the second policy server, for requesting the second policy server to establish the session. Therefore, the session is established more flexibly. In addition, in the case that the session established by the second policy server is applicable to policy control, the effectiveness of session establishment is improved. | 06-06-2013 |
20130297812 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REALIZING APPLICATION DETECTION AND CONTROL IN IP-CAN SESSION SUPPORTING DUAL STACK - The disclosure provides a method and a system for realizing application detection and control in an IP-Connectivity Access Network (IP-CAN) session supporting dual stack. The method includes: a Policy and Charging Rules Function (PCRF) informs a Traffic Detection Function (TDF) of an IPv4 address via a TDF session established for the IP-CAN session if a gateway where the PCEF is located or another external network element allocates the IPv4 address according to a request of the UE and the UE accesses a service using the IPv4 address, after the UE establishes the IP-CAN session and accesses a service using an IPv6 address in the IP-CAN session supporting dual stack; and the TDF performs application detection and control on traffic, of which the source address and/or the destination address is/are the IPv4 address, according to an Application Detection and Control (ADC) rule related to the TDF session. With the method of the disclosure, the PCRF will no longer initiate a request for establishing a new TDF session, in this way, the service detection for one same IP-CAN session needs to be reported via one same TDF session only, thus, resources are saved and signalling overhead is reduced. | 11-07-2013 |
20130308450 | Policy Control Method and System - A policy control method and system are disclosed. The method includes: a 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) network entity sending outer IP packet header information to a Broadband Forum (BBF) access network entity; and the BBF access network entity scheduling a data packet matching the outer IP packet header information according to a Differentiated Services Code Point (DSCP) of the data packet. With the above technical scheme, service data flows without going through admission control will not occupy resources of other service data flows going through the admission control. | 11-21-2013 |
20140164633 | Method, Device and System For Session Binding - Disclosed are a method, device and system for session binding. The method includes: a PCRF or BPCF receives a first session from a fixed network, wherein the first session carries an IP address and a port number set; the PCRF or BPCF receives a second session from an AF or a Traffic Detection Function (TDF), wherein the second session carries an IP address and port number information; and the PCRF or BPCF binds the first session to the second session according to the IP addresses and the port number information. The disclosure solves the problem of inaccurate session binding in the scenario where a mobile terminal directly accesses mobile network services via a fixed network. | 06-12-2014 |
20150036550 | Method and system for identifying application detection and control function mode - A method for identifying an Application Detection Control (ADC) function mode is disclosed. The method is applicable to a scenario where a roaming UE accesses a visited network from a visited location, and includes that: when a Visit Policy And Charging Rule Function entity (V-PCRF) creates an S9 session, the V-PCRF informs a Home Policy And Charging Rule Function entity (H-PCRF) of an ADC (ADC) function mode supported by a visited network; and the H-PCRF determines, in accordance with the ADC function mode supported by the visited network, whether to provide the ADC rule to the visited network. A system for identifying an ADC function mode is disclosed. With the method and the system, when a user is in a visited access scenario, a network system can perform a correct application detection function on the user. | 02-05-2015 |
20150071126 | TDF SESSION PROCESS METHOD AND PCRF - A method for processing Traffic Detection Function (TDF) session and a Policy and Charging Rules Function (PCRF) are provided. The method includes: the PCRF links a first TDF session related with a proxy mobile Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) address and a second TDF session related with a first proxy mobile Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) address to a same IP Connectivity Access Network (IP-CAN) session; when the IPv4 address of the IP-CAN session is released, the PCRF requests the TDF to terminate the first TDF session. | 03-12-2015 |
20150087262 | Policy and Charging Control Method, V-PCRF and V-OCS - A subscription information processing method, a policy and charging control method, an online charging method, a visited network, a V-PCRF and a V-OCS, wherein, the subscription information processing method comprises: a visited network receiving visited network subscription information and account information of a roaming user, the visited network subscription information and the account information and home network subscription information and account information of the roaming user using the same user identification information; the visited network storing the visited network subscription information and the account information of the roaming user. | 03-26-2015 |