Patent ID: 9241352
Filing Date: 2016-01-19
CPC Classification: H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method for establishing a connection between a mobility management entity and a node of a network by the mobility management entity, the method comprising: acquiring an address of the node; transmitting a session creation request to a serving gateway; receiving a session creation response from the serving gateway in response to the session creation request, the session creation response including uplink bearer information for transmitting data to the serving gateway and an address allocated to the mobility management entity by a packet data network gateway; transmitting, to the serving gateway, downlink bearer information for receiving data from the serving gateway; and transmitting and receiving data with the node based on the address of the mobility management entity and the address of the node using a bearer between the mobility management entity and the serving gateway created based on the uplink bearer information and the downlink bearer information, wherein each of the addresses is an Internet Protocol (IP) address.