US 8,499,087 B2 · Service-based routing for mobile core network

Abstract

System(s), method(s), and device(s) that enable establishment of data session based in part on services are presented. When establishing a data session for a communication device, the desired mobility gateway can be dynamically assigned via a specified policy mechanism or provisioned using a predefined service policy table, where particular services are linked with respective identifiers associated with respective mobility gateways. A communication device can reference the service policy table to locate a service that is to be used for the data session and can identify an identifier(s) linked to the service(s) and associated with a mobility gateway(s). The identifier(s) can be received and used to facilitate selecting one or more respective mobility gateways for the data session(s). The service policy table can be automatically pushed to the communication device or the communication device can initiate a download of the service policy table when the default data connection is established.

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Dependent claims

A system, comprising:

a memory storing computer-executable instructions;
and
a processor, communicatively coupled to the memory, that facilitates execution of the computer-executable instructions to at least:
select a mobility gateway device of a plurality of mobility gateway devices based on a mobility gateway identifier received from a communication device via a default communication connection to facilitate establishment of a dedicated communication connection between the communication device and the mobility gateway device to facilitate communication of traffic between the communication device and a service employed during a communication session, wherein the mobility gateway identifier is associated with the mobility gateway device and is mapped to the service;
and
in response to the mobility gateway device being selected, establish the dedicated communication connection between the communication device and the mobility gateway device.

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A method, comprising:

selecting, by a system including a processor, a mobility gateway device from a plurality of mobility gateway devices associated with a network device based on a received identifier that corresponds with the mobility gateway device to facilitate establishing a dedicated communication connection between a mobile communication device and the mobility gateway device, wherein the received identifier is mapped to a service to be utilized by the mobile communication device during a communication session;
and
in response to the selecting of the mobility gateway device, establishing, by the system, the dedicated communication connection between the mobility gateway device and the mobile communication device to facilitate communicating traffic associated with the mobile communication device during the communication session.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Service-based routing for mobile core network

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Service-based routing for mobile core network

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Abstract

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