Split input/output system and method for multimedia communications
AssigneeAT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
InventorsLars Benjamin Johnson, Wei Wang, Rachel Rosencrantz, Mikhail Istomin
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Abstract
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device including a processing system including a processor; and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations of facilitating establishment of a communications path between an open device and a remote device through a communications network; receiving an indication of potentially sensitive information on the communications path; and facilitating establishment of a secure communications path between a secure device and the remote device through the communications network. Other embodiments are disclosed.
Claims20
A device, comprising:
- a processing system including a processor;
- and
- a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations, the operations comprising:
- receiving an indication of potentially sensitive information on a communications path between an open device, operated by a user, and a remote device through a communications network;
- and
- facilitating establishment of a secure communications path for communicating the potentially sensitive information between a secure device, operated by the user to provide the potentially sensitive information, and the remote device through the communications network responsive to the indication, wherein the secure device and the open device are separate devices and the open device and the secure device are remotely located from the remote device.
A non-transitory, machine-readable medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processing system including a processor, facilitate performance of operations, the operations comprising:
- receiving an indication of potentially sensitive information on a communications path between an open device, operated by a user, and a remote device through a communications network;
- suspending the communications path;
- and
- establishing a secure communications path for communicating the potentially sensitive information between a secure device, operated by the user to provide the potentially sensitive information, and the remote device through the communications network responsive to the indication, wherein the secure device and the open device are separate devices and the open device and the secure device are remotely located from the remote device.
A method, comprising:
- receiving, by a processing system including a processor, an indication of potentially sensitive information on a communications path between an open device, operated by a user, and a remote device through a communications network;
- creating, by the processing system, a secure communications path for communicating the potentially sensitive information between a secure device, operated by the user to provide the potentially sensitive information, and the remote device through the communications network responsive to the indication, wherein the secure device and the open device are separate devices and the open device and the secure device are remotely located from the remote device;
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- suspending, by the processing system, the communications path from the open device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.