Patent ID: 8654723

Claim:
A method of providing unlicensed mobile access (UMA) service at a customer location, the customer location having customer premises equipment connected to a public IP network, wherein the customer premises equipment includes a licensed frequency interface and an unlicensed frequency interface, the method comprising: establishing a first IPSec tunnel from the customer premises equipment to a secure gateway within a mobile network operator (MNO) network over the public IP network to support communications over the licensed frequency interface; establishing a second IPSec tunnel from a dual-mode mobile device to a UMA network controller (UNC) via the unlicensed frequency interface, for a UMA service; determining that the unlicensed frequency interface is collocated with the licensed frequency interface in the customer premises equipment; sending, as a consequence to said determining, to the dual-mode mobile device a redirect message instructing the mobile device to route communications relating to the UMA Service through the first IPSec tunnel; and receiving communications relating to the UMA Service through the first IPSec tunnel and routed via the secure gateway to the UNC.