Patent ID: 9749908
Date: 2017-08-29
CPC Classifications: H04W

Claim:
1. A method comprising: storing, by a network device, packet data network (PDN) connection data pertaining to a user equipment connected to a Long Term Evolution network; storing locale-to-packet data network gateway (PGW) data, wherein the locale-to-PGW data includes mappings between locales and PGWs to be used when the user equipment is located in the locales; receiving, by the network device, a locale update pertaining to the user equipment; querying, by the network device, the locale-to-PGW data in response to the receiving of the locale update; determining, by the network device, based on a result of the querying, whether the user equipment is to be re-anchored to a different PGW than a PGW to which the user equipment is currently anchored; invoking, by the network device, a re-anchoring procedure, in response to determining that the user equipment is to be re-anchored to the different PGW; and omitting to invoke, by the network device, the re-anchoring procedure, in response to determining that the user equipment is not to be re-anchored to the different PGW.