Patent ID: 7742490

Claim:
A method in a data treatment server for providing services in a communications network, the method comprising: receiving, by the data treatment server, at least one encapsulated data packet having a standard Internet Protocol (IP) header and a treated payload; converting, by the data treatment server, the treated payload of the at least one encapsulated data packet to an untreated payload to permit inspection and classification of payload content; forwarding, to a wireless gateway node, the at least one encapsulated data packet including the untreated payload to produce inspected and classified content of the untreated payload; receiving, by the data treatment server, the at least one encapsulated data packet including the untreated payload with inspected and classified content; treating the at least one encapsulated data packet including the untreated payload to produce another treated payload; forwarding, to the wireless gateway node, the at least one encapsulated treated data packet including the another treated payload for transmission to a wireless node; and providing the services based on the inspected and classified content of the untreated payload and the number of bytes in the another treated payload.