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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 06, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 03, 2018
At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p., Atlanta, GA (US);
Vikram Seenappa, Sammamish, WA (US);
Vivek Mhatre, Bellevue, WA (US);
Rajendra Prasad Kodaypak, Sammamish, WA (US);
Jiansong Wang, Lincroft, NJ (US);
Ryan Redfern, Cerritos, CA (US);
AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
The described technology is generally directed towards selectively steering wireless network data packet traffic to a network edge cloud, which reduces backhaul bandwidth and facilitates ultra-low latency communications. In one aspect, upon receiving a request for data communication by a user equipment in the wireless network, location information is used to override a centralized access point name (e.g., 4G serving gateway/packet gateway, S/PGW, or 5G user plane function) with an edge-located access point name (edge 4G S/PGW or edge 5G user plane function). This facilitates the data communication between the user equipment and an edge-located access point device associated with the edge-located access point name.