Patent ID: 9094437
Filing Date: 2015-07-28
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for establishing a policy session for a user equipment between a first policy node which is associated with a fixed broadband access network and a second policy node which is associated with an evolved packet core network, the method in a system comprising: establishing the policy session between the first policy node and the second policy node, wherein the policy session is with respect to traffic of the user equipment connected to the fixed broadband access network where said traffic is to be offloaded by the fixed broadband access network without being routed through the evolved packet core network, wherein the policy session is established over an interface between the first policy node and the second policy node only if the user equipment is authorized from a node of the evolved packet core network to perform traffic offload in the fixed broadband access network, and wherein the user equipment has been authenticated and assigned a local Internet Protocol address by the fixed broadband access network.