At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p.

At+t Corp.

Atlassian Us, Inc.

At&t Bell Laboratories

At&t Mobility Ii LLC

Atlassian Inc.

Brian Dean Freeman

Han Q Nguyen

Margaret T Chiosi

Larry B Pearson

Christopher W Rice

John F Murray

Reuben Klein

Leopold B Strahs

Samuel Glazer

Tuan Duong

Gerald Ezrol

William Beckett

Bryan Patrick Sokolik

Igal Elbaz

Mark Lyn

Robert Velazquez

Joseph Niederberger

Hossein Eslambolchi

Bruce Lowell Hanson

Israel L Means

Chesla Catherine Wechsler

Mark Meier Rochkind

Lee B Strahs

Kathleen S Meier-Hellstern

Carolyn Roche Johnson

Richard R Erickson

Koan Seng Chong

Sean E Carolan

Steven R Polston

Richard Lynn Bennett

Marc P Kaplan

Kartik Pandit

Steven A Monetti

Barry J Elia

Richard Koch

Suja John

Wayne E Relyea

Edward Nicholas Shipley

Ronald W Tamkin

Steven T Kaish

Swapna Buccapatnam Tirumala

Jay Gabin

Kevin B Kelly

Fei Wu

Bret Allen Cooper

Paul A Sherman

Alex Cherry Wilkinson

Earle West

Donald M Gerth

Yogeesh H Kamath

James Edward Black

Neng H Wang

Daryl Goins

Galia Merhav

Lina O'Connor

Robert F Cuschleg, Jr

Philip J Patti

Mark E Francis

Anthony J Perinelli

Amy K Shannon

Jonathan F Potter

Daryl M Goins

Marianne J Franklin

Teresa J Coutre

Irene M Shannon

Thomas H Buscher

Alan I Feiertag

Ruth E Smilan

Paul G Sherry

Salvatore Talamo

Richard D Jordan

Software Defined Networking (SDN) is used in IMS in order to provide a mechanism to forward (Internet Protocol) IP packets and provide a simplified solution to the complex signaling path of IMS according to directives from an SDN Controller. SDN is used in at least three particular scenarios. In the first scenario, communications are simplified using SDN directed signaling disaggregation. In the second scenario, SDN is used to direct media function chaining. In the third scenario, the system can be used as an SDN based media relay.

System and method for using software defined networking in internet protocol multimedia subsystems

Architectures and techniques are presented that can leverage network equipment (e.g., broadband provider equipment, cellular provider equipment) in order to provide enhanced guidance to a target location. This enhanced guidance can supplement existing mapping or navigation equipment. Such can be advantageous for public safety answering point entities and first responder entities as well as, potentially, for service technicians or delivery. When an entity (e.g., first responder) is dispatched to a particular location, an associated residential gateway (RG) or other device can be identified, and an associated SSID determined. This SSID can be provided to the entity seeking that particular location so that SSID scans can operate similar to a transponder or homing beacon. The SSID might also be configured specially for this purpose. Additionally, the state of a device attached to the RG can be altered to further aid in locating, such as blinking porch lights or audible indicia.

Guidance to a target location

Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for providing and using a software defined network controller. A software defined network controller can be provided by a computing system that includes a processor. A service model that represents a service can be obtained. A network model that represents network resources that support the service can be obtained. Resources that support the service can be determined. Templates can be accessed to identify templates that relate to the resources. The templates identified can be assembled to obtain a template-based representation of the service. The template-based representation can be executed to determine if the service is ready for deployment.

Software defined network controller

Managing prefix lists at edge devices can include detecting, at an edge device, a traffic flow that can include a packet that specifies a destination address. The edge device can measure a bandwidth associated with the traffic flow, identify a flow bandwidth threshold defined for the edge device, and determine if the bandwidth associated with the traffic flow satisfies the flow bandwidth threshold. If a determination is made that the bandwidth associated with the traffic flow satisfies the flow bandwidth threshold, the edge device can include the destination address in a prefix list stored at the edge device. If a determination is made that the bandwidth associated with the traffic flow does not satisfy the flow bandwidth threshold, the edge device can omit the destination address from the prefix list stored at the edge device.

Managing prefix lists at edge devices

A processing system may obtain a first sampled flow record for a first flow in a network, comprising information regarding selected packets of the first flow, derive, from the first sampled flow record, a data volume and a duration of the first flow, and determine a first flow metric for the first flow that is calculated from the data volume and the duration, where the first flow metric is one of a plurality of flow metrics for a plurality of flows, and where the plurality of flow metrics is determined from the plurality of sampled flow records associated with the plurality of flows. The processing system may then classify the first flow into one of at least two classes, based upon the first flow metric and at least a first flow metric threshold.

Traffic classification of elephant and mice data flows in managing data networks

Methods, computer-readable media, and devices for instantiating a service provider application on a customer premises-based device are disclosed. For example, a processing system of a telecommunication service provider network having at least one processor may establish a first tunnel between the processing system and a virtual machine monitor of a customer premises-based device and send a first instruction to the virtual machine monitor via the first tunnel to instantiate a first service provider application on the customer premises-based device. The processing system may further establish a second tunnel between the processing system and the first service provider application and send a second instruction to the first service provider application via the second tunnel to configure the first service provider application to operate in a service function chain.

Software demarcation in edge computing environment

A system that incorporates the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device receiving diagnostic information from a plurality of client devices delivering media content, wherein the diagnostic information relates to a media delivery service quality and wherein the diagnostic information is sent automatically by the client devices; performing a data compression procedure for the diagnostic information; transmitting compressed data comprising the diagnostic information to an aggregator device; and sending to the client devices a message to delay or prevent transmission of additional diagnostic information in accordance with an instruction received from the aggregator device. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Processing diagnostics of media services

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Farmingdale, NJ, United States of America

Brian Dean Freeman