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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2017
Filed:
Apr. 10, 2015
At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p., Atlanta, GA (US);
At&t Mobility Ii Llc, Atlanta, GA (US);
Zhi Cui, Sugar Hill, GA (US);
Thomas A. Anschutz, Conyers, GA (US);
Alan Blackburn, Woodstock, GA (US);
Arthur Richard Brisebois, Cumming, GA (US);
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);
AT&T Mobility II LLC, Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus to provide a consumer services cloud in a communications network are disclosed. An example method includes obtaining, at a first device in a communications network, network communications transmitted from a client device of a communications network customer that are diverted via a software-defined networking switch. The example method also includes analyzing the network communications to identify which of multiple possible users associated with the communications network customer is a current user of the client device; in response to identifying the current user, accessing a first profile corresponding to the identified current user to determine a rule to be used to handle the network communications within the communications network. The example method also includes configuring the software-defined networking switch to: identify subsequent network communications that correspond to the identified current user of the client device; and handle the subsequent network communications in accordance with the rule.