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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 31, 2012
Applicant:
Futurewei Technologies, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Inventor:
Nandu Gopalakrishnan, Chatham, NJ (US);
Assignee:
FutureWei Technologies, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 36/00 (2009.01); H04W 4/00 (2009.01); H04W 36/14 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 36/0061 (2013.01); H04W 36/0083 (2013.01); H04W 4/00 (2013.01); H04W 36/14 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system and method for a partner network sharing architecture is provided. In an embodiment a piece of user equipment that is part of a partner network is handed off or otherwise attached to a wholesale network. The identification of the partner network that the piece of user equipment originated from is determined by an ordering of a list of PLMN IDs that is transmitted to the wholesale network.