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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 05, 2019
Filed:
Nov. 06, 2014
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Maulik Vijay Vaidya, Atlanta, GA (US);
Nirav Salot, Pune, IN;
James Paul Seymour, North Aurora, IL (US);
Ravi Shankar Chamarty, Natick, MA (US);
Vivek Jha, Bangalore, IN;
Sebastian Speicher, Wallisellen, CH;
Sridhar Bhaskaran, Coimbatore, IN;
Rahul Vaidya, Bangalore, IN;
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
An example method is provided in one example embodiment and may include communicating a message for a group of one or more user equipment (UE) from a machine type communication-interworking function (MTC-IWF) to a packet data network gateway (PGW), wherein the message includes a group identity (ID) associated with the group of one or more UE; communicating the message from the PGW to one or more serving gateways (SGWs); and communicating the message from each of the one or more SGWs to each of the one or more UE of the group of the one via a tunnel for each of the one or more UE.