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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.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2014

Filed:

Dec. 21, 2009
Applicants:

Marco Liebsch, Heidelberg, DE;

Paulo Ferrer Loureiro, Heidelberg, DE;

Andreas Kunz, Heddesheim, DE;

Inventors:

Marco Liebsch, Heidelberg, DE;

Paulo Ferrer Loureiro, Heidelberg, DE;

Andreas Kunz, Heddesheim, DE;

Assignee:

NEC Europe Ltd., Heidelberg, DE;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/26 (2006.01); H04J 1/16 (2006.01); G08C 15/00 (2006.01); G06F 11/00 (2006.01); G01R 31/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A radio network allows a flexible distribution of data flows between a mobile station and a mobility anchor of the network over different interfaces. Data flows are routed between at least one mobile station and a mobility anchor of the network. The mobile station can connect to the mobility anchor using multiple network interfaces simultaneously, the radio network including an application function capable of processing and/or analyzing information about routing policies contained in a signalling received from a mobile station, which is able to push or signal the processed and/or analyzed information from the application function to an entity that can enforce routing policies to forward the data flows to one or more selected interfaces and which is able to signal routing policies received from the network to the mobile station. Further, an according method for operating a radio network, especially for routing data flows within the network, is disclosed.


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