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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 15, 2013
Filed:
Sep. 12, 2007
Steven Belz, Austin, TX (US);
Kurt Joseph, Austin, TX (US);
James Pratt, Round Rock, TX (US);
AT&T Intellectual Property I, LP, Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a network element having a controller to obtain network information associated with establishing a network among a group of communication devices, and provide the network information to a plurality of network set-up devices removably connected to the network element, where each of the plurality of network set-up devices is connectable with a communication device of the group of communication devices to provide at least a portion of the network information to the communication device, and where the network is established based at least in part on the at least a portion of the network information. Other embodiments are disclosed.