Patent ID: 8787303
Filing Date: 2014-07-22
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: receiving, at an offloading element, a discovery message from a gateway; in response to the discovery message, sending, to the gateway, an offload query message including an indication that the offloading element serves data packets selected by the gateway to be offloaded; receiving an offloading instruction message from the gateway, wherein the offloading instruction message includes an identification of the selected packets to be offloaded at the offloading element to an Internet; inspecting a first packet to determine that an identification of the first packet matches the identification of the selected packets in the offloading instruction message; de-capsulating the first packet; translating a network address in the de-capsulated first packet; and offloading the de-capsulated and network-address-translated first packet to a server.