	US 12,207,318 B2
	Method and system for inter-operator mobility service
Yousef Abdelmalek, New Providence, NJ (US); Miguel A. Carames, Long Valley, NJ (US); Sudhakar Reddy Patil, Flower Mound, TX (US); Matthew W. Nelson, Pleasanton, CA (US); and Parry Cornell Booker, Arlington, TX (US)
Assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US)
Filed by Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US)
Filed on Oct. 14, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/501,235.
Prior Publication US 2023/0119045 A1, Apr. 20, 2023
Int. Cl. H04W 24/10 (2009.01); H04W 76/10 (2018.01)

CPC H04W 76/10 (2018.02) [H04W 24/10 (2013.01)]

20 Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving, by a network device of radio access network of a first entity, a first request from an end device associated with a second entity;

determining, by the network device, that the first request does not include network slice information;

selecting, by the network device based on the determining, a core device of a core network of the first entity, wherein the core device is a shared core device allocated to users associated with the first entity and users associated with the second entity or a dedicated core device allocated to the users associated with the second entity; and

establishing, by the network device, a network connection with the core device that pertains to the end device.