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Date of Patent:
Feb. 16, 2021

Filed:

Oct. 07, 2016
Applicant:

Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ), Stockholm, SE;

Inventors:

Helka-Liina Määttanen, Helsinki, FI;

Mattias Bergström, Stockholm, SE;

Torsten Dudda, Aachen, DE;

Gino Masini, Stockholm, SE;

Filip Mestanov, Brottby, SE;

Stefan Rommer, Västra Frölunda, SE;

Jari Vikberg, Järna, SE;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 12/00 (2009.01); H04W 76/12 (2018.01); H04W 12/06 (2021.01); H04W 12/08 (2021.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04W 84/12 (2009.01); H04W 88/06 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 12/001 (2019.01); H04L 63/0209 (2013.01); H04L 63/029 (2013.01); H04W 12/0013 (2019.01); H04W 12/0608 (2019.01); H04W 12/0609 (2019.01); H04W 12/0808 (2019.01); H04W 76/12 (2018.02); H04L 29/06551 (2013.01); H04L 63/0272 (2013.01); H04L 63/164 (2013.01); H04W 84/12 (2013.01); H04W 88/06 (2013.01);
Abstract

A wireless communication device () served by a wireless wide area network (WWAN) base station supports per-bearer switching of bearer traffic between the WWAN and a wireless local area network (WLAN) in a manner transparent to the WLAN. The device in this regard establishes a secure tunnel () through the WLAN to a security gateway (), based on the device receiving a message from the WWAN base station () to establish the secure tunnel (). The device switches bearer traffic between the WWAN and the WLAN on a per bearer basis, with bearer traffic switched to the WLAN being transported through the secure tunnel () and over a connection () between the security gateway () and the WWAN base station ().


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