Direct interaction between a user and a communication network

An apparatus comprising:

• a processor;
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• memory comprising computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations for direct interaction between an individual and a communication network, the operations comprising:
• receiving data related to the individual in an environment, the data being captured by a network sensor without assistance from and unassociated with a subscriber-owned device, the environment of the network sensor capturing the data being a non-home environment of the individual;
• in response to receiving the data related to the individual in the non-home environment, authenticating, by the processor, that the individual is a subscriber to services of the communication network by identifying the individual as the subscriber from the data that has been captured by the network sensor in the non-home environment of the subscriber, the environment for capturing the data being unassociated in advance with the subscriber prior to the authenticating, the network sensor being registered to a different subscriber from the subscriber and configured to communicate without assistance from the subscriber-owned device, wherein both the network sensor in the non-home environment and the subscriber are associated with the services of the communication network, wherein the non-home environment for capturing the data corresponding to a location, the location being configured to vary in accordance with movement of the subscriber;
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• performing an action of the services on behalf of the subscriber based on the data.

A computer program product, tangibly embodied on a non-transitory computer readable medium, for direct interaction between an individual and a communication network, the computer program product including instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:

• receiving data related to the individual in an environment, the data being captured in the environment by a network sensor without assistance from and unassociated with a subscriber-owned device, the environment of the network sensor capturing the data being a non-home environment of the individual;
• in response to receiving the data related to the individual in the non-home environment, authenticating, by the processor, that the individual is a subscriber to services of the communication network by identifying the individual as the subscriber from the data that has been captured by the network sensor in the non-home environment of the subscriber, the environment for capturing the data being unassociated in advance with the subscriber prior to the authenticating, the network sensor being registered to a different subscriber from the subscriber and configured to communicate without assistance from the subscriber-owned device, wherein both the network sensor in the non-home environment and the subscriber are associated with the services of the communication network, wherein the non-home environment for capturing the data corresponds to a location, the location being configured to vary in accordance with movement of the subscriber;
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• performing an action of the services on behalf of the subscriber based on the data.