Patent ID: 11871284
Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 14:
15. A computer-implemented method, comprising:
processing, using a common processing element, a data flow from a wireless device connected to a particular base station of a radio-based network via a first access technology;
determining that the wireless device supports a second access technology;
switching the wireless device from the first access technology to the second access technology to connect to the particular base station of the radio-based network; and
continuing processing, using the common processing element, of the data flow from the wireless device connected to the particular base station of the radio-based network via the second access technology without interrupting the data flow, wherein the common processing element performs a distributed unit (DU) network function both on the first data sent via the first access technology and the second data sent via the second access technology, wherein the common processing element that performs the DU network function is located in a provider substrate extension of a cloud provider network at an edge location.