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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 28, 2008
Filed:
Aug. 13, 2004
Essam El-beik, Dallas, TX (US);
Robert Smith, Jouy en Josas, FR;
Ian Maclean, Plano, TX (US);
Greg Horlacher, Plano, TX (US);
James Yuhn, Plano, TX (US);
Essam El-Beik, Dallas, TX (US);
Robert Smith, Jouy en Josas, FR;
Ian MacLean, Plano, TX (US);
Greg Horlacher, Plano, TX (US);
James Yuhn, Plano, TX (US);
Nortel Networks Limited, St. Laurent, Quebec, CA;
Abstract
The methods of the present invention enable wireless gateway nodes to support mobile node services, such as content based billing, when a data treatment server is present in the system. Using one of a defined Content Flow Label (CFL), an Application Program Interface (API), and a compression protocol header, the present invention provides content based billing by exchanging content and byte count information with the data treatment server. In one embodiment, a new compression protocol header type is defined. In a second embodiment, a content flow label with a byte count field is inserted in a Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) header. In an alternate embodiment, the wireless gateway node implements an API to transfer the content flow label and byte count information over a signaling link. In yet another embodiment, the data treatment server performs the content based billing and similar mobile node services.