Patent ID: 8797861

Claim:
A method for mobile Internet offloading in a wireless communication network, comprising: establishing a session through an Internet offload gateway (IOGW) with a mobile operator network to establish a communication with a mobile device; receiving a packet coming from the mobile device by an interface of an intelligent policy manager (IPM) residing in the IOGW during the session; determining whether the received packet is a signaling packet or a data packet by the IPM; if the received packet is the signaling packet then, generating offload rule flags based on user context parameters and operator defined offload rule flag thresholds by the IPM; enabling one or more operator defined offload policy rules, defined using one or more of the generated offload rule flags, by the IPM; if the received packet is the data packet then, determining whether at least one of the one or more operator defined offload policy rules matches with session information associated with the data packet by the IPM; if so, offloading the data packet to the Internet bypassing a mobile operator's packet core network by the IPM; and if not, sending the data packet to a home gateway in the mobile operator's packet core network by the IPM.