Patent ID: 8909728

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving, by a network device and from a mobile device, a request for content; determining, by the network device, whether the content is stored in a cache located proximate to the network device; retrieving, by the network device, the content from the cache when the content is stored in the cache; determining, by the network device, a type of traffic associated with the content; determining, by the network device, a general packet radio service (GPRS) tunneling protocol-user (GTP-U) tunnel identifier associated with the type of traffic; creating, by the network device, packets based on the content and the GTP-U tunnel identifier, wherein each packet of the packets includes the GTP-U tunnel identifier; transmitting, by the network device, the packets to the mobile device; receiving, by the network device and from the mobile device, acknowledgement packets in response to the packets; and forwarding, by the network device, the acknowledgement packets to the cache for storage at the cache.