Patent ID: 11930446
Assignee: TELIT CINTERION DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 7:
8. A method for operating abase station assigned to at least two core networks in co-existence mode of a cellular network, providing direct connection termination access to one of said core networks, for at least one user equipment camping on the base station, the method comprising the steps of:
sending a resource indication transmission to at least one of the camping user equipments, wherein the resource indication transmission indicates available resources of at least two of the at least two core networks,
receiving a connection request wherein the connection request uses the available resources belonging to a selected core network,
setting up a connection with the selected core network,
sending a connection setup indication to the requesting user equipment;
wherein the base station is further configured to retrieve a connection request from a user equipment with a selected core network,, the method comprising the step of:
determining if the user equipment has operated with a neighbor base station in said selected core network before,
allowing access to said selected core network, despite a level of occupancy.