Method and apparatus for communicating network management traffic over a network

US9729197B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

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

Inventors

• David Gross · South River, US
• Joshua Lackey · Lake Stevens, US
• Donald E. Levy · Holmdel, US
• Roger Piqueras Jover · New York, US
• Jayaraman Ramachandran · Plainsboro, US
• Cristina Serban · Middletown, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 1, 2015
• Grant date: Aug 8, 2017
• Expiry date: Oct 1, 2035

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y04S40/124
• WIPO field: Telecommunications
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, determining whether communications are encrypted, determining a communication type for the communications according to sensitivity criteria, encrypting the communications according to the communication type to generate encrypted communications, and transmitting to a second network device the encrypted communications. Other embodiments are disclosed.