Patent ID: 8856387

Claim:
A method of communication, comprising: determining, at an access terminal, whether a serving access point for the access terminal provides local Internet Protocol access through use of multiple Internet Protocol interfaces, wherein the serving access point is a restricted femto node that only provides local Internet Protocol access for home access terminals; selecting, at the access terminal, an Internet Protocol interface for sending a packet based on a destination of the packet and a list that maps packet destinations to Internet Protocol interfaces, wherein: a first Internet Protocol interface in the list is associated with a first stream that is terminated at an operator network, a second Internet Protocol interface in the list is associated with a second stream that is terminated at the serving access point, the serving access point resides in a local area network being an Internet Protocol subnetwork served by a local router, and the local router is connected to the internet and provides an internet connection to the operator network; and sending the packet from the access terminal to the destination via the selected Internet Protocol interface.