Patent ID: 8705553

Claim:
A method in a home base station for forwarding of data packets, wherein said home base station has a connection to at least one mobile terminal over a radio interface, a connection to a number of local nodes of a local network, and a connection to a core network of a mobile telecommunications system via an access network, said method comprising: receiving a number of uplink data packets from the mobile terminal over a number of bearers; for each of the uplink data packets, examining an address field of the uplink data packet received from the mobile terminal to identify a destination address associated with the uplink data packet; for each of the uplink data packets, choosing if the packet is to be subject to local transportation and/or core transportation based on the identified destination address, wherein local transportation comprises forwarding the uplink data packet to a local node over the local network without passing the core network, and core transportation comprises forwarding the uplink data packet to the core network; and for each of the uplink data packets, forwarding the uplink data packet in accordance with the chosen type of transportation, wherein choosing comprises choosing local transportation for a first uplink data packet of the number of uplink data packets responsive to a first destination address of the first uplink data packet, and choosing core transportation for a second uplink data packet of the number of uplink data packets responsive to a second destination address of the second uplink data packet, and wherein forwarding the uplink data packet comprises forwarding the first uplink data packet to the local node via a Local Area Network (LAN) router of the local network responsive to choosing local transportation, and forwarding the second uplink data packet to the core network responsive to choosing core transportation.