Patent ID: 8831014

Claim:
A gateway comprising: one or more interfaces configured to provide packet communication with a user equipment, a packet core network, and an Internet, wherein the one or more interfaces are further configured to communicate with a home gateway in the packet core; a processor, in communication with the one or more interfaces, configured to inspect a control plane message received from the home gateway, wherein inspection of the control plane message comprises using an analyzer to determine offload eligibility of traffic corresponding to the received control plane message and call localization eligibility of traffic corresponding to the received control plane message, wherein the traffic corresponding to the received control plane message is identified as eligible to be offloaded from the packet core network to the Internet to bypass the packet core network upon determining that one or more trigger conditions is satisfied; wherein the traffic corresponding to the received control plane message is identified as eligible for call localization within the home gateway upon determining that a source device and a destination device of the traffic are serviced by a same radio access network; a network address translation functionality that is configured to modify packets associated with the traffic corresponding to the received control plane message such that the packets are routed through the Internet, bypassing the packet core network; and a call localization functionality that is configured to change information of packets associated with traffic selected for call localization to localize the traffic at the gateway.