US 12,207,142 B2
Base station, control method, and storage medium
Tetsuya Katsuragi, Toyko (JP)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Dec. 6, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/542,656.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-202899 (JP), filed on Dec. 7, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0182907 A1, Jun. 9, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 36/00 (2009.01); H04W 36/14 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 36/0016 (2013.01) [H04W 36/142 (2023.05)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A base station of a mobile communication system, comprising:
one or more processors; and
one or more memories that store computer-readable instructions, which cause, when executed by the one or more processors, the base station to:
receive an instruction for switching a core network based on a communication that a terminal connected to the base station is to perform;
transmit, in response to the received instruction, a connection release request message to a local 5G (fifth generation) core network to which the base station is currently connected;
receive, from the local 5G core network, a message response to the connection release request message;
transmit, to a public 5G core network, a connection request message after receiving the message response to the connection release request message;
receive, from the public 5G core network, a message response to the connection request message; and
connect to the public 5G core network,
wherein the public 5G core network is connected to a server device located in an external network, and the local 5G core network is not connected to any server device located in the external network.