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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 06, 2021
Filed:
Aug. 05, 2019
Centurylink Intellectual Property Llc, Broomfield, CO (US);
Michael K. Bugenhagen, Leawood, KS (US);
Charles I. Cook, Louisville, CO (US);
CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC, Broomfield, CO (US);
Abstract
Novel tools and techniques might provide for implementing customer-based Internet of Things ('IoT')—transparent privacy functionality. Various methods, systems, and apparatuses might provide connectivity between a network interface device ('NID') and each of one or more first user devices of a plurality of user devices associated with the customer premises and/or a user who is associated with the customer premises. In some cases, at least one virtual network function (“VNF”) might be sent to each of the one or more first user devices. The NID might restrict, in some cases using the VNF, access by a third party to the information regarding the at least one portion of the at least one of one or more first user devices connected to the network or one or more applications running on one or more first user devices connected to the network.