POLICY CONTROL ARCHITECTURE COMPRISING AN INDEPENT IDENTITY PROVIDER

摘要

A policy control architecture arranged to handle policies in communication networks, the architecture comprising an independent Identity Provider (IDP) arranged to generate IDP-user terminal-entries for policy control information. It further comprises policy controllers logically divided into separate policy control units, including a User policy controller (UPC) arranged to generate UPC-user terminal-entries for service subscriptions and a Business policy controller (BPC) arranged to apply business related policies on said services.