Patent ID: 7929966

Claim:
A method for communicating a plurality of packets along a bearer path, comprising: wirelessly receiving a home network address at an access terminal while the access terminal is in a home network, the home network address corresponding to a home anchored bearer path anchored at the home network of the access terminal; wirelessly receiving a visited network address at the access terminal while the access terminal is in a visited network, the visited network address corresponding to a visited anchored bearer path anchored at the visited network; notifying, by the access terminal in the visited network, the home network of the visited network address, the home anchored bearer path comprising a bearer manager of the visited network in response to the notification of the visited network address; receiving, by the access terminal, a home network policy from the visited network in response to notifying the home network of the visited network address; determining, by the access terminal, to communicate a first set of packets on the home anchored bearer path and a second set of packets on the visited anchored bearer path in response to receiving the home network policy; and communicating, at the access terminal, in a session while the access terminal is in the visited network utilizing both the home network address and the visited network address, the first set of packets communicated on the home anchored bearer path and the second set of packets communicated on the visited anchored bearer path during the session.