US 11,540,131 B2Granted

Customer control of their mobile assets

AssigneeT-Mobile USA, Inc.

InventorPaul Farag

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Abstract

Systems, methods, and devices for secure and configurable control of user equipment (UE) devices associated with enterprise accounts are disclosed herein. Each enterprise account is associated with a plurality of UE devices, which may access networked assets associated with the enterprise. In order to manage UE device access to enterprise assets and to other networks via an internet connection through a wireless telecommunications network, data associated with different enterprise accounts is virtually separated at the edge routers and maintained as separate data streams to distinct virtual environments associated with the enterprise accounts at one or more asset hosting servers. The virtual environments on the assets hosting servers further facilitate enterprise-specific control of mobile assets, such as enforcing security policies relating to access, connections, filtering, or encryption.

Claims18

Dependent claims

A system for control of mobile assets, comprising:

one or more edge routers comprising one or more processors configured to provide access to enterprise assets via a communication network to a plurality of user equipment (UE) devices associated with a plurality of enterprise customers;
one or more packet data gateways communicatively connected to one or more edge routers and comprising one or more network interface components configured to send and receive data via the communication network;
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one or more asset-hosting servers communicatively connected to the one or more packet data gateways and comprising one or more processors configured to implement a plurality of virtual environments associated with the plurality of enterprise customers,
wherein the one or more edge routers are configured to separate communication data associated with requests to access the enterprise assets from the plurality of UE devices into a plurality of data streams, each data stream being maintained separately and associated with a separate one of the plurality of enterprise customers via with a corresponding one of the plurality of virtual environments associated with the enterprise customer.

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Facts

Application: 16/867,752Filed 6 May 2020
Published: US 2021/0352480 A111 Nov 2021
Granted: 27 Dec 2022
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification10 codes

H04W 12/086
Access security: using security domains
H04L 12/4633
Interconnection of networks: interconnection of networks using encapsulation techniques, e.g. tunneling
H04L 61/5014
Internet protocol [IP] addresses: using dynamic host configuration protocol [DHCP] or bootstrap protocol [BOOTP]
H04L 63/0272
For separating internal from external traffic, e.g. firewalls: virtual private networks