Patent ID: 8477718
Filing Date: 2013-07-02
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A communication system for communications with mobile user equipment, comprising: a first base station to communicate radio signal messages with the mobile user equipment, and to communicate packets based on the radio signal messages, each packet having a header field and a payload field; a first application-aware serving gateway facing the base station to receive the packets, constructed and arranged to detect header information in the header field and application information in the payload field, to generate a user identifier and an application type identifier based on the detected header information and the detected application information; a packet data network (PDN) gateway operatively connected to the application-aware serving gateway and facing a PDN, wherein the application-aware serving gateway is arranged to apply a given policy to the packets based on a comparing of the given policy to the user identifier and the application type identifier; a second base station to communicate the radio signal messages with the mobile user equipment, and to communicate the packets based on the radio signal messages; and a second application-aware serving gateway to receive the packets from at least one of the first base station and the second base station, wherein the first application-aware serving gateway is further arranged to receive an externally generated handoff command identifying the mobile user equipment, generate and store an application-aware training data based on the user identifier, the application type identifier, and the given policy, and transmit the application-aware training data to the second application-aware serving gateway in response to the handoff command.