Patent ID: 8565159

Claim:
A packet data gateway of a home packet data network operable to communicate internet packets to and from a mobile node using an internet protocol, and to provide a communications session to the mobile node, when the mobile node is affiliated with the home packet data network, the home packet data network including a home agent of the mobile node, wherein upon receipt of a binding update internet packet providing a care of address of the mobile node following a change of affiliation from the home packet data network to a visited packet data network, said visited packet data network being operable to communicate internet packets to and from the mobile node to provide the communications session, when the mobile node is affiliated with the visited packet data network, the packet data gateway is operable to: establish a route for the internet packets between the home agent and the mobile node via the packet data gateway, to the effect that the packet data gateway can control the communication of the internet packets from the home packet data network to the mobile node and the communication of the internet packets received from the mobile node via the visited packet data network when the mobile node is affiliated with the visited packet data network; establish a mobile internet protocol tunnel for communicating internet packets to the mobile node in the visited network; and establish an internet protocol security tunnel between the packet data gateway and the mobile node, the mobile internet protocol tunnel being arranged to be within the internet protocol security tunnel.