Patent ID: 8705504

Claim:
A method for traffic processing in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: receiving an uplink packet comprising a contents request from a Mobile Station (MS); determining whether the requested contents have been cached; if it is determined that the contents have been cached, transmitting the contents to the MS; if it is determined that the contents have not been cached, determining a content acquisition path according to whether to acquire the contents from a core network over a first connection or a public Internet network over a second connection, according to at least one of the subscriber information and the device information; acquiring the contents from a corresponding server using the content acquisition path; transmitting the contents to the MS; and caching the contents, wherein the first connection and the second connection are operatively parallel such that communication with the core network over the first connection does not require communication over the second connection, and communication with the public Internet network over the second connection does not require communication over the first connection.