Patent ID: 8509169

Claim:
A method to configure a virtual private mobile network, the method comprising: receiving a request at a wireless network provider from a client, the request instructing the wireless network provider to create the virtual private mobile network for the client; identifying available network elements within a wireless network of the wireless network provider based on the request from the client; configuring a portion of a control plane and a portion of a data plane of the identified network elements for the virtual private mobile network by creating a virtual circuit comprising a serving gateway, an Internet protocol network, a wireless base transceiver station, and a packet data network gateway for the virtual private mobile network; and enabling user equipment associated with the client to wirelessly communicatively couple to the virtual private mobile network by: determining the user equipment is authorized to access the virtual private mobile network based on a request to connect from the user equipment using an access point name; forwarding communications from the user equipment received at the wireless base transceiver station to the serving gateway via the virtual circuit; and routing the communications using the access point name from the serving gateway to the packet data network gateway to route the communications to the Internet Protocol network via the virtual circuit.