Patent ID: 9660826
Date: 2017-05-23
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method for managing data flow between at least one wireless communication device and at least one application executing at an edge of a wireless communication network, the method comprising: generating, by a first flow regenerator disposed within a wireless communication network, a replicated set of data packets, where the replicated set of data packets are a copy of a set of data packets being transmitted between an application disposed on a first node at an edge of the wireless communication network and a wireless communication device changing, by the first flow regenerator, at least one characteristic of the replicated set of data packets, where the at least one characteristic that is changed indicates to a second flow regenerator that the replicated set of data packets is to be removed from the wireless communication network; sending, by the first flow regenerator, the replicated set of data packets to the second flow regenerator disposed in the wireless communication network, the replicated set of data packets being sent to the second flow regenerator through at least a second node disposed between the first flow regenerator and the second flow regenerator, where the second node is configured to perform one or more book-keeping operations on the replicated set of data packets; receiving, by the second flow regenerator, the replicated set of data packets; analyzing, by the second flow regenerator, the replicated set of data packets; determining, by the second flow regenerator, that the at least one characteristic of the replicated set of data packets has been changed by the first flow regenerator; and removing, by the second flow regenerator, the replicated set of data packets from the wireless communication network.