Patent ID: 8817696

Claim:
A system comprising: an unlicensed mobile access (UMA) controller (UNC); a security gateway (SGW) in communication with the UNC, wherein the SGW includes functionality to route user-plane packets in the UMA, and wherein the functionality includes UNC user-plane functionality offloaded from the UNC to the SGW; a processor; and a machine-readable storage medium coupled to the processor, the machine-readable storage medium including: one or more instructions for performing a gateway function between a client and the UMA controller; one or more instructions for performing a function associated with a servicing general packet radio services support node (SGSN); and one or more instructions for performing a function associated with the UMA controller; wherein the SGSN user-plane functionality is adapted to enable the SGW to route internet protocol (IP) services and associated data within the UMA without passing the IP services and associated data through a legacy SGSN module.