Patent ID: 9386077
Filing Date: 2016-07-05
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method, comprising: receiving, by a device, load information associated with one or more mobile gateways and one or more server devices provided in each cloud network of a plurality of cloud networks, wherein the load information includes bandwidth usage information associated with loads on the one or more mobile gateways and associated with loads on the one or more server devices, information associated with media content stored in the one or more server devices, and information associated with applications stored in the one or more server devices; receiving, by the device, functionality information associated with the one or more mobile gateways and the one or more server devices, wherein the functionality information includes information identifying whether the one or more mobile gateways include functionalities of: a packet data serving node (PDSN), a home agent (HA), a serving general packet radio services (GPRS) support node (SGSN), a gateway GPRS support node (GGSN), a serving gateway (SGW), a packet data network (PDN) gateway (PGW), a multimedia broadcast multicast system gateway (MBMS-GW), or a broadcast multicast service control (BMSC); receiving, by the device and from a user equipment, a request for a resource stored in two or more of the cloud networks; selecting, by the device, one cloud network of the two or more of the cloud networks to serve the request based on a comparison of the load information and the functionality information associated with the one or more mobile gateways and the one or more server devices provided in each of the two or more of the cloud networks; and providing, by the device and to the user equipment, an indication of the selected cloud network, wherein, in response to the indication, the user equipment connects to the selected cloud network via a first base station and receives the resource when the user equipment is in a first location, wherein the user equipment connects to the selected cloud network via a second base station, and wherein an interface moves from between the first base station and the selected cloud network to between the second base station and the selected cloud network without an Internet Protocol handover, when the user equipment moves from the first location to a second location.