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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2026
Filed:
Nov. 01, 2023
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Ravi Sharma, Freehold, NJ (US);
Riyaj Uddin Ahmed, Coppell, TX (US);
Jignesh Patel, Haltom City, TX (US);
Khalil M. Kajani, Carrollton, TX (US);
Maqbool Chauhan, Keller, TX (US);
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
A device of a first network, to which a User Equipment ('UE') is wirelessly connected, may receive, a request to access a service provided by a second network. The device may establish, based on the request, a user plane connection between the first network and the second network while the UE remains wirelessly connected to the first network. The first network may receive, from the UE, traffic that is associated with the service, and may output the received traffic to the second network via the user plane connection. The first and second networks may communicate via a connection, such as a tunnel, via respective User Plane Functions (“UPFs”) of the first and second networks. The UPFs may communicate via an N9 interface. The service may be provided by an edge computing device of the second network.