Patent ID: 9565117
Date: 2017-02-07
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method comprising: implementing a client at a mobile device, wherein operation of the client is transparent to other applications running on the mobile device and the client is configured to communicate with a router residing within a radio access network, the radio access network coupled between a core network and a base station that is to communicate wirelessly with the client, the client being further configured to communicate with a network access server comprising a gateway that couples the core network to one or more packet data networks, wherein the gateway of the network access server comprises at least one of a Packet Data Network Gateway (PGW) or a Gateway GPRS Support Node (GGSN), wherein the router is configured to receive a first policy from the network access server and to enforce the first policy to monitor the client at the mobile device; receiving a second policy, at the client, from the network access server and enforcing the second policy for data communication by the mobile device with the one or more packet data networks; initiating, at the mobile device, a plurality of packet data network (PDN) connections to the one or more packet data networks, including a first PDN connection and a second PDN connection, according to the second policy maintained by the client running on the mobile device, wherein the first PDN connection is anchored at the network access server, and the second PDN connection is anchored at the router and a session for the second PDN connection is maintained at the router; and communicating, using the client, control plane transactions through the network access server to initiate communication with the one or more packet data networks.