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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 09, 2026
Filed:
Dec. 16, 2022
British Telecommunications Public Limited Company, London, GB;
Maria Cuevas Ramirez, London, GB;
BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY, London, GB;
Abstract
A method () of operating a telecommunications network (), said telecommunications network comprising a cellular telecommunications network (-) and a non-cellular telecommunications network (-), wherein both of said networks are accessible to a User Equipment (), UE, the method comprising the steps of: establishing a network connection between the UE and the cellular telecommunications network via the non-cellular telecommunications network (); obtaining, by means of the cellular telecommunications network, a: unique cellular subscriber identity associated with the UE and for accessing the cellular telecommunications network; and network address associated with the UE and for use with the non-cellular telecommunications network for the network connection (); generating an identifier for identifying the UE to the non-cellular telecommunications network (); generating, by means of the cellular telecommunications network, a mapping between the: identifier; unique cellular subscriber identity; and the network address; and receiving, at the non-cellular telecommunications network, based on the generated mapping, the identifier in association with the network address ().