Patent ID: 7308237

Claim:
A method of communicating information, the method comprising: storing in a storage module, information about possible associations between an identifier of a mobile user equipment and user plane addresses; receiving at a service provisioning entity a request for the service from a client connected to a communication system, said request including the identifier of the mobile user equipment; verifying if a user plane address can be found from the storage module based on the identifier; and if such a user plane address is found from the storage module, communicating data associated with provisioning of the requested service to the mobile user equipment over an active user plane connection associated with said address found from the storage module; and if no user plane address can be found from the storage module based on the identifier, establishing a new user plane connection and communicating data associated with a provisioning of the requested service to the mobile user equipment over said established user plane connection, and thereby providing the provisioning of the service in the communication system.