Patent ID: 11950111
Assignee: T-MOBILE USA, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 14:
15. A computer-implemented method, comprising:
receiving, at one or more computing devices of a core network of a wireless carrier network, an authentication request from a modular communication modem of a plurality of modular communication modems in an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) network cell following an installation of the modular communication modem into the UAV network cell, wherein the authentication request includes a UAV network cell identifier of the UAV network cell;
in response to authenticating, at the one or more computing devices, that the modular communication modem is authorized to communicate with the core network, registering the modular communication modem at the core network to handle communication between the UAV network cell and the core network, wherein the authenticating includes authenticating, via a controller of the core network, that the UAV network cell identifier of the UAV network cell belongs to an authorized network cell of the wireless carrier network; and
in response to determining, at the one or more computing devices, that the modular communication modem is not authorized to communicate with the core network, disallow the modular communication modem from handling communication between the UAV network cell and the core network.