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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 23, 2017
Filed:
Apr. 12, 2016
Applicant:
At&t Intellectual Property I, Lp, Atlanta, GA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/66 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 29/12 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 65/1073 (2013.01); H04L 12/66 (2013.01); H04L 61/2007 (2013.01); H04L 65/1016 (2013.01); H04L 67/1044 (2013.01); H04L 67/306 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a method for receiving initial filter criteria from a home subscriber server, transmitting information obtained from the initial filter criteria to a domain name system, receiving a multicast IP address from the domain name system, and transmitting a message to a plurality of IP multimedia subsystem network elements according to the multicast IP address. The message can be used for configuring the plurality of IP multimedia subsystem network elements. Other embodiments are disclosed.