Patent ID: 8983530
Filing Date: 2015-03-17
Classification: H04M,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method of operating a wireless communication system, comprising: in a Wireless Fidelity (WiFi) network, receiving an internet access request from a wireless communication device and responsively transferring an anchor request to a Long Term Evolution (LTE) network; in the LTE network, receiving the anchor request and responsively processing a WiFi network identifier to select an LTE Packet Gateway (PGW) and obtaining an internet address for the wireless communication device; in the WiFi network and the LTE network, exchanging first user data between the wireless communication device and an internet through the LTE PGW using the internet address; in the LTE network, after the wireless communication device terminates communications with the WiFi network, exchanging second user data between the wireless communication device and the internet through the LTE P-GW using the internet address but not the WiFi network.