Patent ID: 8854968

Claim:
A communication method, comprising: sending, by a Mobile Broadband Edge (MBB-Edge) node, a traffic offloading or a non traffic offloading indication to a NodeB according to a traffic offloading policy; and according to a traffic offloading indication, directing, by the NodeB, User Plane (UP) data of a Packet Switched (PS) service to a Public Data Network (PDN) through a fixed broadband bearer network of an offloading path that bypasses UP data communication of the PS service through the MBB-Edge node, according to a non traffic offloading indication, sending, by the NodeB, the UP data of the PS service to the MBB-Edge node, and receiving, by the MBB-Edge node, the UP data of the PS service from the NodeB and directing the UP data of the PS service to the PDN.