Abstract:
In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, a method is provided for receiving (414) from a gateway apparatus an intercept request regarding user equipment in the communication system; creating or modifying a processing rule regarding the user equipment by including interception in the rule; transmitting (502) to a network switch processing user equipment connections a command to clone and encrypt each signalling or data packet of the user equipment connection and to transmit the encrypted signalling and data packets to a given network apparatus.
Abstract:
A method comprises sending a request from an application server functionality, providing a local application functionality to a user equipment, to a policy server functionality, said policy server functionality storing local application policy information for said user equipment, and receiving information from said policy server functionality about said local application policy in formation for said user equipment.