US 12,267,890 B2
Multi-operator maritime mesh network
Serdar Sahin, Plano, TX (US); Lars Pedersen, Bagsvaerd (DK); and Yanping Dang, Beijing (CN)
Assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ), Stockholm (SE)
Appl. No. 17/597,991
Filed by Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ), Stockholm (SE)
PCT Filed Nov. 23, 2019, PCT No. PCT/IB2019/060091
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Feb. 1, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/024032, PCT Pub. Date Feb. 11, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. PCT/CN2019/099039 (WO), filed on Aug. 2, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0338279 A1, Oct. 20, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 48/18 (2009.01); H04B 7/185 (2006.01); H04L 12/46 (2006.01); H04W 12/088 (2021.01); H04W 76/12 (2018.01); H04W 84/18 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 76/12 (2018.02) [H04B 7/18513 (2013.01); H04L 12/4641 (2013.01); H04W 12/088 (2021.01); H04W 48/18 (2013.01); H04W 84/18 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method implemented by a network device to establish communication over a multi-operator maritime mesh network, the network device in a local network of a communication system of a first vessel in the maritime mesh network, the method comprising:
receiving a communication session request, via a mesh server of a second vessel, from a remote network device of the second vessel to access a remote service, the remote network device within the multi-operator maritime mesh network and the remote network device is subscribed to a different network operator than a network operator associated with the network device;
querying a subscriber database of the different network operator associated with the remote network device for a roaming agreement;
determining that the remote network device has the roaming agreement with-a the network operator associated with the network device; and establishing a communication session between the remote network device and the remote service, when determining that the remote network device has the roaming agreement with the network operator associated with the network device, the communication session being established is between the mesh server of the second vessel and a gateway of the different network operator.