Patent ID: 9723531
Date: 2017-08-01
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method comprising: responsive to receiving, from a first gateway device over a downlink channel, a first packet of a plurality of packets at a first radio access node collocated with a second gateway associated with a home network enabling said first radio access node to receive at least one other of said plurality of packets via the second gateway device; buffering all of at least one other of said plurality of packets at the second gateway, wherein buffering the first packet causes a user equipment of the home network to be paged to establish a connection with the home network; and based on the paging, causing said buffered plurality of packets to be forwarded to the user equipment in a sequence comprising: causing said first packet to be forwarded by said first radio access node to the user equipment before said at least one other of said plurality of packets is caused to be forwarded to said user equipment, wherein said plurality of packets comprises downlink local IP access packets, and wherein said causing further comprises: configuring a link as an uplink link comprising creating a binding between a local IP access packet bearer for the user equipment and a bearer context associated with said second gateway device; sending an indication of the received first packet to the second gateway device using the uplink link, wherein responsive to said indication there is causing said at least one other packet to be received by said first radio access node from said second gateway; configuring the link as a downlink link, and using the downlink link to forward said at least one other of the plurality of packets in said sequence to said user equipment; and storing said at least one other of said plurality of packets in said second gateway device until said first radio access node has received said first of said plurality of packets.