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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 27, 2021

Filed:

Apr. 13, 2017
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Qingmin Hu, Sammamish, WA (US);

Douglas Eng, Sammamish, WA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/31 (2013.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04W 4/38 (2018.01); H04W 12/00 (2021.01); H04L 12/24 (2006.01); H04L 12/26 (2006.01); H04W 4/70 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 63/20 (2013.01); H04L 41/0893 (2013.01); H04L 43/0817 (2013.01); H04L 63/1416 (2013.01); H04L 63/1425 (2013.01); H04L 63/1441 (2013.01); H04L 67/12 (2013.01); H04W 4/38 (2018.02); H04W 12/0027 (2019.01); H04W 4/70 (2018.02); H04W 12/00502 (2019.01);
Abstract

A network aware data driven Internet of things (IoT) service engine is presented herein. A method can comprise receiving a policy rule from a network device of respective network devices—the policy rule corresponding to a sensor of a group of sensors that have been configured to transmit information of respective services to the respective network devices using an Internet protocol, and the policy rule defining an action to be performed by the system in response to a behavior of the sensor being determined to satisfy a defined condition specified by the policy rule with respect to a service of the respective services; based on the policy rule, monitoring the behavior of the sensor; and in response to determining that the behavior of the sensor satisfies the defined condition, performing the action on behalf of the network device.


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