Patent ID: 9084155
Filing Date: 2015-07-14
Classification: G06F,G08C,H04B,H04J,H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A system comprising: a cellular wireless RF base station node having an RF coverage area and configured for RF communication with a plurality of mobile devices deployed in the RF coverage area, the cellular wireless RF base station node being connected to a back haul network; at least one base station optimization server that is connected to the cellular wireless RF base station node and connected to the back haul network in parallel with the cellular wireless RF base station node so as to permit a data packet to flow either (a) between the cellular wireless RF base station node and the back haul network without traversing the at least one base station optimization server, (b) between the at least one base station optimization server and the back haul network without traversing the cellular wireless RF base station node, or (c) between the cellular wireless RF base station node and the at least one base station optimization server without traversing the back haul network; a regional optimization server communicatively connected with a packet data network gateway (PGW) on the packet data network side of the PGW and adapted to (a) run an application for providing services to the plurality of mobile devices and (b) transfer the application's functionality for the plurality of mobile devices to the at least one base station optimization server of the cellular wireless RF base station node based on a usage characteristic of the plurality of mobile devices, wherein the usage characteristic is a threshold value for the number of mobile devices requesting identical application services in the RF coverage area of the cellular wireless RF base station node; and a wireless control facility communicatively connected with the regional optimization server and the cellular wireless RF base station node; wherein for at least one device of the plurality of mobile devices, the transfer of the application's functionality is enabled by a corresponding redirection at the cellular wireless RF base station node of a corresponding mobile device bearer into a corresponding redirected bearer connecting the mobile device with the base station optimization server, so that packets are conveyed to and from the cellular wireless RF base station node's at the least one base station optimization server from and to the at least one mobile device rather than being conveyed over the backhaul network through a Serving Gateway (SGW) and then through the PGW to the regional optimization server, and wherein the wireless control facility is adapted to interact with (a) the at least one mobile device of the plurality of mobile devices to establish the corresponding mobile device bearer that is to be used as corresponding the redirected bearer and (b) the cellular wireless RF base station node to redirect at least one corresponding bearer of the at least one mobile device to that node's at the least one base station optimization server; wherein the application services are provided via at least one of (a) a direct connection between the application and the at least one mobile device of the plurality of the mobile devices and (b) a publish-subscribe broker communications facility that is connected to the at least one mobile device of the plurality of mobile devices being served by the at least one base station optimization server of the cellular wireless RF base station node, wherein the publish-subscribe broker communications facility is directly connected to the application, and (c) communications through a network of publish-subscribe broker communications facilities, wherein the application is directly connected to a publish-subscribe broker communications facility that is different from the publish-subscribe broker communications facility to which the at least one of the plurality of mobile devices is directly connected.