Patent ID: 8693367
Filing Date: 2014-04-08
Classification: H04L,H04M,H04W

Abstract:
1. An offload gateway comprising: one or more interfaces configured to communicate with a gateway in a packet core network, with the Internet without passing through the packet core network, and with user equipment (UE) via one or more access networks; the offload gateway configured to inspect a received control plane packet and obtain information from the received control plane packet that is used to determine offload eligibility for data packets corresponding to the received control plane packet, wherein the received control plane packet comprises information used to configure a session for the data packets corresponding to the received control plane packet; offload logic configured to determine the offload eligibility of the data packets corresponding to the received control plane packet based on criteria and, in response to the criteria being met, to offload the data packets corresponding to the received control plane packet onto the Internet such that the gateway in the packet core network is bypassed; and a network address translation functionality that is configured to modify data packets selected for offload by the offload logic such that the data packets selected for offload are routed through the Internet at the offload gateway.