Patent ID: 8451851

Claim:
A node for providing services in a wireless network, the node comprising: a transceiver, configured to transmit and receive data; and processing hardware coupled to the transceiver, wherein the processing hardware is configured to: receive at least one data packet from a mobile node using the transceiver, wherein the at least one data packet has a standard Internet Protocol (IP) header containing a treated payload; create at least one encapsulated data packet by adding a compression protocol header to the standard IP header; route the at least one encapsulated data packet to a data treatment server using the transceiver, wherein the data treatment server converts the treated payload to an untreated payload; receive the at least one encapsulated data packet from the data treatment server using the transceiver, wherein the encapsulated data packet comprises the untreated payload, wherein the compression protocol header contains at least one field indicating a number of bytes in the treated payload; remove the compression protocol header from the at least one encapsulated data packet; route the at least one data packet to a data packet network using the transceiver; and provide services based on the content of the untreated payload and the number of bytes in the treated payload.