Methods and apparatus to configure virtual private mobile networks for security

US9386035B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P. · US

Inventors

• Arati Baliga · Panaji, IN
• Xu Chen · Ann Arbor, US
• Baris Coskun · Glen Rock, US
• Gustavo de los Reyes · Fair Haven, US
• Seungjoon Lee · Suwon-si, KR
• Suhas Mathur · Piscataway, US
• Jacobus Van der Merwe · New Providence, US
• Gang Xu · Beijing, CN

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 21, 2011
• Grant date: Jul 5, 2016
• Expiry date: Nov 4, 2032

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04W12/086
• WIPO field: Digital communication
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Methods and apparatus to configure virtual private mobile networks for security are disclosed. A disclosed example method includes identifying, in a wireless network, a communication from a user equipment that matches a security event profile, transmitting, from the wireless network, an instruction to enable the user equipment to be communicatively coupled to a virtual private mobile network, the virtual private mobile network being provisioned for security within the wireless network, and enabling the user equipment to transmit a second communication through the virtual private mobile network securely isolated from other portions of the wireless network.