Patent ID: 9445348
Filing Date: 2016-09-13
CPC Classification: H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method in a base station of a wireless communication network for enabling provision of an Internet based service to a user equipment, the base station being associated with a local server capable of delivering the Internet based service, the method comprising: receiving, from the user equipment, information identifying the user equipment, updating a connection list in the base station by adding the information identifying the user equipment, receiving, from the user equipment, a query for information identifying the local server, wherein receiving the query for information identifying the local server comprises receiving in the query a list comprising at least one global IP address obtained by the user equipment from an internet server, in response to the query comprising the list, comparing the least one global IP address in the list with a global IP of the local server associated with the base station, and wherein sending the confirmation response comprises the global IP address of the local server, sending, to the user equipment, a confirmation response comprising a global IP address of the local server in response to the query for information identifying the local server received from the user equipment, wherein if a match is found, including the global IP address of the local server associated with the base station in the confirmation response, receiving, from the user equipment, a request for the Internet based service, the request comprising the global IP address of the local server, mirroring the connection list from the base station to the local server, and forwarding the request for the Internet based service to the local server for enabling the local server to deliver the Internet based service to the user equipment.