Patent ID: 11930374
Assignee: DISH WIRELESS L.L.C.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 13:
14. A method for operating a cellular network system with advanced secondary operator privacy, the method comprising:
communicating with a first set of user equipment using a first radio unit and a first radio spectrum, wherein:
first communications between the first radio unit and a cellular network are performed as part of a first cellular network slice; and
the first radio unit is operated by a cellular network operator;

communicating with a second set of user equipment using a second radio unit and a second radio spectrum, wherein:
the second radio unit is operated by a secondary operator distinct from the cellular network operator;
second communications between the second radio unit and the cellular network are performed as part of a second cellular network slice;
the second communications are encrypted such that the cellular network cannot decrypt the second communications;
routing, by a distributed unit (DU), the first communications to a first national data center (NDC) of the cellular network; and

routing the encrypted second communications of the second cellular network slice to a second NDC operated by the secondary operator, wherein the second NDC is separate from the cellular network.