Invention Grant
- Patent Title: APN for connecting to a virtual home network
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Application No.: US16694853Application Date: 2019-11-25
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Publication No.: US11044665B2Publication Date: 2021-06-22
- Inventor: Maria E. Palamara , Burhan Syed , Kristen Sydney Young
- Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
- Applicant Address: US VA Arlington
- Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
- Current Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US VA Arlington
- Main IPC: H04W48/18
- IPC: H04W48/18 ; H04W12/06 ; H04W12/08 ; H04W88/06 ; H04W4/70 ; H04W36/14 ; H04W76/10

Abstract:
A device associated with a home network may receive an access point name (APN) request from a device associated with a visitor network, wherein the APN request is associated with a user device. The device associated with the home network may cause, based on the APN request, a virtual home network to be instantiated that includes a virtual gateway, wherein the virtual home network is physically closer to the user device than the home network. The device associated with the home network may generate an APN that identifies the virtual home network and the virtual gateway. The device associated with the home network may cause the APN to be sent to the device associated with the visitor network to cause a gateway associated with the visitor network to connect to the virtual gateway.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210160767A1 APN FOR CONNECTING TO A VIRTUAL HOME NETWORK Public/Granted day:2021-05-27
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