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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 05, 2016
Filed:
Nov. 05, 2014
At&t Intellectual Property I, Lp, Atlanta, GA (US);
Loraine Beyer, Hoover, AL (US);
David Feng-Lin Chen, Fremont, CA (US);
Peter Israel Rosencrantz, Boulder, CO (US);
Tho Tran, Altamonte Springs, FL (US);
AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a communication device having a controller to transmit to a communication system a PKI certificate, and engage in encrypted communications responsive to receiving a public key from the communication system. The communication system can have a plurality of network elements that integrate operations of a circuit-switched communication network and a packet-switched communication network. Other embodiments are disclosed.