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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
May. 08, 2018

Filed:

Jul. 31, 2015
Applicant:

At&t Intellectual Property I, Lp, Atlanta, GA (US);

Inventors:

David Gross, South River, NJ (US);

Joshua Lackey, Lake Stevens, WA (US);

Donald E. Levy, Holmdel, NJ (US);

Roger Piqueras Jover, New York, NY (US);

Jayaraman Ramachandran, Plainsboro, NJ (US);

Cristina Serban, Middletown, NJ (US);

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 27/00 (2006.01); H04L 12/733 (2013.01); H04L 12/741 (2013.01); H04B 3/54 (2006.01); H02J 13/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 45/126 (2013.01); H04B 3/54 (2013.01); H04L 45/74 (2013.01); H02J 13/00 (2013.01); H04B 2203/5433 (2013.01);
Abstract

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a network device that accesses internet protocol addresses associated with a group of end point devices where the network device is a closest network device to the group of end point devices, and transmitting data to another network device responsive to a determination that an internet protocol address associated with the data from an end point device is one of the internet protocol addresses associated with the group of end point devices. Other embodiments are disclosed.


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