Patent ID: 8787250

Claim:
A system comprising: a base station configured to receive source data from a mobile device, the source data including a routing device address to send the source data to, and to generate, in a control plane protocol, control data based on the source data, the control data including a control server address to send the control data to; a control server for performing control plane functions, the control server configured to receive the control data from the base station and generate communication instructions, for carrying out data path functions, based on the control data; and a routing device for performing data plane functions, the routing device separate from the control server and comprising: a control module configured to receive the communication instructions from the control server; a service module configured to generate, in a protocol that can be read by a router module, data path instructions for the source data based on the communication instructions; and the router module configured to receive the source data from the base station and route the source data to a target device based on the data path instructions.