US 12,108,323 B2
Method and apparatus for controlling access to hosted virtual network using network identifiers
Devaki Chandramouli, Plano, TX (US); Cinzia Sartori, Pullach (DE); and Laurent Thiebaut, Antony (FR)
Assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy, Espoo (FI)
Appl. No. 16/973,645
Filed by Nokia Technologies Oy, Espoo (FI)
PCT Filed Jun. 18, 2019, PCT No. PCT/IB2019/055103
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Dec. 9, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/244033, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 26, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/686,571, filed on Jun. 18, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0185590 A1, Jun. 17, 2021
Int. Cl. H04W 48/02 (2009.01); H04L 12/46 (2006.01); H04W 48/10 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 48/02 (2013.01) [H04L 12/4641 (2013.01); H04W 48/10 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
transmitting a network identifier associated with a private hosted virtual network to one or more user equipment in a coverage area via a radio access network in the coverage area to allow the one or more user equipment to select the private hosted virtual network, wherein the network identifier is configured to be stored on the one or more user equipment, wherein the network identifier comprises a Public Land Mobile Network Identifier and an identifier of the private hosted virtual network; and
assigning an access identity to at least one user equipment of the one or more user equipment that is allowed to select the private hosted virtual network to allow the at least one user equipment to initiate access via a random access channel towards the private hosted virtual network.