Patent ID: 11917478
Assignee: T-MOBILE USA, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method in a user equipment (UE) comprising:
provisioning a subscriber identity module (SIM) for a plurality of preferred telecommunication networks of a multi-network mobile edge computing (MEC) system, wherein each network of the plurality of preferred telecommunication networks are selected for inclusion in the MEC system by meeting an edge-computing requirement of an application loaded on the UE;
scanning for networks of the plurality of preferred telecommunication networks provisioned in the SIM to determine that one or more networks of the plurality of preferred telecommunication networks provisioned in the SIM are available, the one or more networks including a first network;
determining a priority level of each of the one or more networks based at least in part on a latency specified in a service level agreement associated with each of the one or more networks; and
selecting the first network based at least in part on a priority level of the first network and a sensitivity of the application to changes in processing resulting from a handover;
running the application on the first network of the plurality of preferred telecommunication networks, the first network meeting the edge-computing requirement of the application loaded on the UE;
having a workload associated with the application distributed among edge-computing nodes of the first network; and
upon detecting a degradation in a service associated with running the application on the first network, running the application on a second network of the plurality of preferred telecommunication networks, the second network meeting the edge-computing requirement of the application loaded on the UE.