Patent ID: 8503432

Claim:
A method for signaling information within a core network (CN) of a wireless communication network, comprising: receiving, at a mobility anchor node of the CN, an Internet Protocol (IP) packet of an IP flow, wherein the IP packet comprises a header and a payload; determining, at the mobility anchor node of the CN, information associated with the IP flow, wherein the information associated with the IP flow comprises information indicative of at least one of an application type associated with the IP flow, an application associated with the IP flow, and a content source associated with content of the IP flow; encoding, at the mobility anchor node of the CN, the information associated with the IP flow in an Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) Options field of the header of the IP packet; and pre-pending, at the mobility anchor node of the CN, an outer header to the IP packet for Mobile IPv4 (MIPv4) tunneling of the IP packet from the mobility anchor node of the CN toward a mobility gateway node of the CN.