Patent ID: 8570995
Filing Date: 2013-10-29
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. An apparatus, comprising: a resource allocator configured to generate a message for a Global System for Mobile Communications network requesting at least one characteristic of a local area network; and an accumulator configured to receive said at least one characteristic of said local area network to enable a mobile station to communicate with said local area network, wherein said message for said Global System for Mobile Communications network comprises one of a control plane message and a user plane message as a function of a length and delay sensitivity of said message, and wherein said mobile station is configured to compare said length and delay sensitivity of said message against a threshold to determine whether to encapsulate said message as said control plane message or said user plane message and to further determine whether said message is to be transmitted over a stand-alone dedicated control channel, a packet data traffic channel, or a circuit switched data channel based on said message being encapsulated as said control plane message or said user plane message.