Patent ID: 8045974

Claim:
A method for establishing an optimized communication between a first mobile network node and a second mobile network node, the method comprising: first checking, by an interface administration module of the first mobile network node, for different types of network interfaces that are simultaneously available; setting up a first look-up table at the first mobile network node by the interface administration module, the look-up table including the available network interfaces obtained from said first checking; choosing a signaling channel by a signaling router module of the first mobile network node, from the first mobile network node to the second mobile network node, by selecting one of the available network interfaces resulting from said step of first checking and listed in the first look-up table; transmitting first configuration data including data throughput information on the available network interfaces from the first mobile network via the signaling channel to the second mobile node; second checking for available network interfaces by an interface administration module of the second mobile network node for different types of network interfaces that are simultaneously available; setting up a second look-up table with available network interfaces of the second mobile network node, based on said second checking at the second mobile network node; transmitting second configuration data including data throughput information for the available network interfaces based on information of the second look-up table from the second mobile network node to the first mobile network node; and setting up a data channel for communicating data between the first mobile network node and the second mobile network node by using a data router module of the first mobile network, based on the first look-up table, the second look-up table, and the first and second configuration data to choose an available network interface with the highest data throughput.