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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 16, 2025
Filed:
Jun. 02, 2023
T-mobile Innovations Llc, Overland Park, KS (US);
Marouane Balmakhtar, Fairfax, VA (US);
Lyle Walter Paczkowski, Mission Hills, KS (US);
Robert Keith Butler, Overland Park, KS (US);
T-MOBILE INNOVATIONS LLC, Overland Park, KS (US);
Abstract
A data communication system serves a wireless communication device over a Non Third Generation Partnership Project (non-3GPP) network slice. The data communication system receives a request for the non-3GPP slice from the wireless communication device over a non-3GPP access node. The data communication system exchanges network signaling with a 3GPP network. The data communication system receives an authorization from the 3GPP network for the wireless communication device to use the non-3GPP network slice. The data communication system establishes a Virtual Private Network (VPN) for the wireless communication device over the non-3GPP access node in response to the authorization from the 3GPP network. The data communication system exchanges user data with the wireless communication device over the VPN. The data communication system exchanges the user data with a non-3GPP communication system over the VPN or another VPN for the non-3GPP communication system.