Patent ID: 11934860
Assignee: CENTURYLINK INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A method, comprising:
receiving, at a network node in a first network and via a first network access device in a second network, a request from a first user device to establish roaming network access, a first user of the first user device being associated with a second network access device in the first network and being unassociated with the first network access device, the second network access device being located in a different geographical location from the first network access device;
authenticating, with the network node, the first user;
determining, with the network node, whether the first user is associated with the second network access device;
determining, with the network node, whether the first user is authorized to access data accessible by the second network access device;
based on a determination that the first user is associated with the second network access device, providing, with the network node, one or more second virtual network functions (“VNF”) to one of a hypervisor or a container that is in communication with the first network access device
establishing, with the network node, access connection to a data store by executing the instances of the one or more second VNFs on the one of the hypervisor of the container; and
mapping, with the network node, one or more virtual extensible local area networks (“VXLANs”) to the one of the hypervisor or the container, wherein mapping one or more VXLANs to the one of the hypervisor or the container comprises mapping one or more VXLANs to one or more LAN ports of the first network access device, wherein the one of the hypervisor or the container is communicatively coupled to at least one of the one or more LAN ports.