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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 29, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2008
Jae-sun Chin, Iielotes, TX (US);
Gregory Henderson, San Antonio, TX (US);
Michael Raftelis, San Antonio, TX (US);
Jae-Sun Chin, Iielotes, TX (US);
Gregory Henderson, San Antonio, TX (US);
Michael Raftelis, San Antonio, TX (US);
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for providing security to an endpoint device are disclosed. For example, the method receives a signaling message by the endpoint device. The method processes the signaling message, if the signaling message is received from a device associated with one of one or more Internet Protocol (IP) addresses in an Access Control List (ACL), and discards the signaling message, if the signaling message is received from a device not associated with one of the one or more IP addresses in the ACL.