US 11,917,701 B2
Gateway arrangements for wireless communication networks
Meghashree Kedalagudde, Hillsboro, OR (US); Muthaiah Venkatachalam, Beaverton, OR (US); Wu-Chi Feng, Tigard, OR (US); and Puneet Jain, Hillsboro, OR (US)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed on Jan. 13, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/575,464.
Application 17/575,464 is a division of application No. 15/418,493, filed on Jan. 27, 2017, abandoned.
Application 15/418,493 is a continuation of application No. 14/513,041, filed on Oct. 13, 2014, granted, now 9,596,628, issued on Mar. 14, 2017.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/909,938, filed on Nov. 27, 2013.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/898,425, filed on Oct. 31, 2013.
Prior Publication US 2022/0191955 A1, Jun. 16, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 76/12 (2018.01); H04W 36/00 (2009.01); H04W 76/11 (2018.01); H04W 76/15 (2018.01); H04L 45/64 (2022.01); H04L 9/40 (2022.01); H04W 88/16 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 76/12 (2018.02) [H04L 45/64 (2013.01); H04L 63/029 (2013.01); H04W 36/0027 (2013.01); H04W 76/11 (2018.02); H04W 76/15 (2018.02); H04W 88/16 (2013.01); Y02D 30/70 (2020.08)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus, comprising:
a processor configured to cause a serving gateway control-plane (SGW-C) system to:
transmit, to a serving gateway user-plane computing system (SGW-U), a request to get a user data general packet radio service tunneling protocol (GTP-U) tunnel endpoint identifier (TEID) of the SGW-U;
receive, from the SGW-U, a response including the GTP-U TEID of the SGW-U;
transmit, to a packet data network gateway control-plane computing system (PGW-C) a create session request message including the GTP-U TEID of the SGW-U;
receive, from the PGW-C, a create session response including the GTP-U TEID of a packet data network gateway user-plane computer system (PGW-U);
create one or more GTP user-plane tunnels; and
update the SGW-U with a plurality of GTP TEIDs that correspond to the one or more GTP user-plane tunnels.