Patent ID: 9733975
Date: 2017-08-15
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04W

Claim:
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 at least one of data, content, profiles, or software applications that are accessible by the second network access device; and based on a determination that the first user is associated with the second network access device and that the first user is authorized to access at least one of data, content, profiles, or software applications that are accessible by the second network access device, pushing, with the network node, one or more virtual network functions (“VNFs”) to a hypervisor that is in communication with the first network access device and executing instances of the VNFs on the hypervisor.