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

Claim 0:
1. A system, comprising:
one or more processors; and
memory having instructions stored therein, the instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform acts comprising:
receiving an authentication request from a modular communication modem of a plurality of modular communication modems in an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) network cell at a core network of a wireless carrier network 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 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 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.