Patent ID: 8976657
Filing Date: 2015-03-10
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A mobile communications infrastructure with coordinated data session offloading of mobile subscriber devices from a primary communication medium for mobile subscriber devices to a secondary communication medium that is accessible by mobile subscriber devices, comprising: a primary communications infrastructure which provides the primary communication medium for; a secondary communications infrastructure which provides the secondary communication medium, said secondary communication medium having a different connectivity protocol from the primary communication medium; and an offload management system configured to control offload of mobile subscriber devices from the primary communication medium to the secondary communication medium during a data session with a data network based on an offload profile associated with the mobile subscriber device and resource status information relating to the available capacity of the secondary communication medium, wherein said offload profile comprises information indicative of whether the mobile subscriber device is approved for offloading; wherein, during said data session, a policy server of said offload management system is configured to determine whether to offload said mobile subscriber device and data to said secondary communication medium.