Patent ID: 8363664

Claim:
A system for a wireless packet data network in which mobile devices communicate with a packet data network for content through a radio access network, comprising: a combined gateway including: a processor and memory configured to: provide a serving gateway (SGW) functionality for communicating with a first set of one or more radio access networks; and provide a packet data network gateway (PGW) functionality for communicating with a packet data network; and session information, for a single session, is stored by the combined gateway, such that the single session information can be interacted with by both operations performed by the serving gateway functionality and operations performed by the packet data network functionality; the combined gateway configured to receive a packet from one of the first set of one or more radio access networks, internally process that packet using the serving gateway functionality and the packet data network gateway functionality in combination with the single session information, and transmit one or more corresponding packets to the packet data network, thereby providing reduced latency as compared to processing the packet with a separate serving gateway and packet data network gateway.