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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:
May. 23, 2023

Filed:

Nov. 20, 2020
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Timothy Yao, Redmond, WA (US);

Christopher Bryant, Duvall, WA (US);

Qun Wei, Redmond, WA (US);

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/40 (2022.01); H04N 21/254 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 63/0876 (2013.01); H04L 63/0823 (2013.01); H04L 63/0869 (2013.01); H04L 63/18 (2013.01); H04N 21/2542 (2013.01);
Abstract

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving, by a processing system including a processor that is operative in a first communication network, a certificate from a communication device that is operative in a second communication network, extracting, by the processing system, an identifier of the communication device from the certificate, authenticating, by the processing system, the communication device in accordance with the identifier, comparing, by the processing system, the identifier with a plurality of identifiers to determine that the communication device is authorized to access data, resulting in an authorization determination, and transmitting, by the processing system, the data to the communication device based on the authorization determination. Other embodiments are disclosed.


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