Patent ID: 8881236

Claim:
A network component operating at a control plane comprising: a receiver configured to receive a request through an information centric network, wherein the request is associated with a user device in a user group; a virtual group controller configured to operate at the control plane to determine a domain for the user device based on a domain name obtained from the request, route the request by mapping a name for the user device in the request using trusted service profile information; and a transmitter configured to forward the request to the domain for the user device, wherein the virtual group controller provides user device name registration and management and name mapping to enable user mobility and manage network global routing, and wherein the name mapping is used to map a user device home name hierarchy assigned from a home domain and comprising a home domain name, the user of the device name, and the user device name into a user device foreign name hierarchy routable in a foreign domain and comprising a foreign domain me a radio access network (RAN) access technologyname for an access point (AP) attached to the user device in the foreign domain, the home domain name, the user of the device name, and the user device name.