Patent ID: 9379931
Filing Date: 2016-06-28
CPC Classification: H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method, comprising: receiving a packet for a subscriber at a gateway, wherein the gateway includes a local policy anchor for interfacing with one or more policy servers and one or more classifiers for interfacing with one or more service chains, each service chain including one or more services accessible by the gateway; determining a service chain to receive the subscriber's packet; communicating, at least in part, the service chain determined for the subscriber and an Internet Protocol (IP) address of the local policy anchor to a classifier for interfacing with the determined service chain, wherein the communicating includes communicating at least one of policy information and charging information associated with one or more services in the determined service chain and wherein the classifier maintains an association between the subscriber, the determined service chain and the at least one of the policy information and the charging information; appending the subscriber's packet with a header, wherein the header includes, at least in part, identification information for the subscriber and IP address for the local policy anchor; and injecting the packet including the header into the service chain determined for the subscriber.