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Date of Patent:
Jul. 09, 2019

Filed:

Nov. 20, 2017
Applicant:

At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p., Atlanta, GA (US);

Inventors:

Walter Cooper Chastain, Atlanta, GA (US);

Reuben Klein, East Brunswick, NJ (US);

Dean Bragg, Toms River, NJ (US);

John Oetting, Zionsville, PA (US);

Frank Cariello, Middletown, NJ (US);

Paul Edward Smith, Rockwell, TX (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/24 (2006.01); H04L 12/717 (2013.01); G06F 9/455 (2018.01); H04L 12/725 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 41/0893 (2013.01); G06F 9/45533 (2013.01); H04L 45/302 (2013.01); H04L 45/42 (2013.01);
Abstract

Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for creating and using service control functions. The service control functions can detect a message via an adapter function. The message can relate to a service controlled by the service control functions. Service policies can be accessed. The service policies can include message handling policies and can be accessed to determine if a policy relating to the message exists. If a determination is made that the policy exists, the message and the policy can be analyzed to determine an action to take with respect to the message, and the action can be initiated.


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