Patent ID: 8479271

Claim:
A system including a mobile data network comprising: a plurality of basestations, each basestation communicating with a corresponding antenna that transmits and receives radio signals to and from user equipment, wherein the plurality of basestations are part of a radio access network that communicates with a core network in the mobile data network, each basestation comprising: a breakout component that includes a breakout subsystem and a first edge application registered with the breakout subsystem, wherein the breakout component defines an existing first data path in the radio access network for non-broken out data, defines a second data path for broken out data, identifies first data corresponding to first user equipment received from a corresponding basestation as data to be broken out, sends the first data on the second data path, and forwards other data that is not broken out on the first data path, wherein the breakout component provides a first service with respect to internet protocol (IP) data sent to the first user equipment in response to an IP data request in the first data from the first user equipment by serving the first edge application in the breakout component; and wherein the first edge application comprises a data filter and an application programming interface (API) hook, wherein the data filter filters data broken out by the breakout subsystem based on at least one permission for the first edge application, and the breakout subsystem invokes the API hook to send the filtered data to the first edge application.