Method and apparatus for managing customer premises traffic
AssigneeAT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
InventorsKim Haislip, Christina Cacioppo, Shiv Kumar
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Abstract
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, detecting data traffic from a wireless device located in a customer premise, determining from characteristics of the data traffic whether to route the data traffic to a public network external to the customer premise or route the data traffic to a local network in the customer premise, responsive to determining to route the data traffic to the local network in the customer premise, performing a measurement on the data traffic, and detecting from the measurement that the data traffic requires mitigation action. 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 data traffic from a wireless device located in a customer premise;
- obtaining from the data traffic an identification of the wireless device and a destination address of the data traffic;
- determining from the identification and the destination address whether to route the data traffic to a public network external to the customer premise or route the data traffic to a local network in the customer premise;
- responsive to determining to route the data traffic to the local network in the customer premise, performing a measurement on the data traffic;
- comparing the measurement to a traffic parameter of a service plan associated with the customer premise, wherein the traffic parameter corresponds to a data limit;
- and
- initiating mitigation action responsive to determining the measurement is near or exceeds the data limit established by the service plan.
A machine-readable medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processing system including a processor, facilitate performance of operations, the operations comprising:
- detecting data traffic from a wireless device located in a customer premise;
- determining from characteristics of the data traffic whether to route the data traffic to a public network external to the customer premise or route the data traffic to a local network in the customer premise;
- responsive to determining to route the data traffic to the local network in the customer premise, performing a measurement on the data traffic;
- and
- detecting from the measurement that the data traffic requires mitigation action, wherein:
- the detecting comprises comparing the measurement to a data limit obtained from a service plan associated with the customer premise, and
- the mitigation action comprises throttling the data traffic to avoid an aggregate measurement of the data traffic exceeding the data limit established by the service plan.
A method, comprising:
- detecting, by a processing system including a processor, a flow of data traffic within a customer premise;
- determining, by the processor, from characteristics of the data traffic, whether to route the data traffic to a public network external to the customer premise or route the data traffic to a local network in the customer premise;
- responsive to determining to route the data traffic to the local network in the customer premise, performing, by the processor, a measurement on the data traffic;
- and
- detecting, by the processor, from the measurement that the data traffic requires mitigation action, wherein:
- the detecting comprises comparing the measurement to a data limit obtained from a service plan associated with the customer premise, and
- the mitigation action comprises throttling the data traffic to avoid an aggregate measurement of the data traffic exceeding the data limit established by the service plan.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.