Patent ID: 11930409
Assignee: AT&T TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 11:
12. A non-transitory, machine-readable medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processing system including a processor, facilitate performance of operations, the operations comprising:
receiving a notification from a serving base station regarding a communication device over a mobile network, wherein the communication device is communicatively coupled to the serving base station, wherein the notification indicates discovery of a target base station by the communication device;
obtaining an extended cell global identifier (ECGI) associated with the target base station from the serving base station over the mobile network in response to determining that the communication device comprises an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV); and
providing first instructions to the serving base station to generate a communication link between the serving base station and the target base station based on the ECGI.