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Granted Patent B2
US 8,850,048 · App. 13/898,910 · Granted Sep 30, 2014

Reciprocal addition of attribute fields in access control lists and profiles for femto cell coverage management

Inventors: Kurt Donald Huber (Coral Springs, FL); William Gordon Mansfield (Sugar Hill, GA); Judson John Flynn (Decatur, GA)
Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLC
H04W48/16G06Q20/32H04W84/045G06Q30/02H04W48/08H04W48/20G06Q30/0601H04W4/02G06Q20/3223G06Q20/405G06Q20/1235G06Q20/322G06Q20/387G06Q30/0222H04W12/08G06Q30/0261H04L63/101
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 8,850,048
App. No.
13/898,910
Granted
Sep 30, 2014
Kind
B2
Abstract

Access management to femto cell service is provided through access control list(s) (e.g., white list(s), or black list(s)). White list(s) includes a set of subscriber station(s) identifier numbers, codes, or tokens, and also can include additional fields for femto cell access management based on desired complexity. White list(s) can have associated white list profile(s) therewith to establish logic of femto coverage access based on the white list(s). A mechanism for reciprocal addition of access field attributes in access control lists and white list profiles also is provided. The mechanism allows at least in part for a first subscriber to be added to a configured white list of a second subscriber, when the first subscriber configures a new white list, the second subscriber is reciprocally incorporated in the new white list. Such mechanism can be driven and facilitates generation of associations among groups of subscribers that share specific commonalities.

Claims (41)

1. A system, comprising:

a memory to store instructions; and

a processor, coupled to the memory that facilitates execution of the instructions to perform operations, comprising:

receiving, from a data store of a macro network, information related to a set of disparate femto access point devices,

based on the information, determining association data indicative of an association of devices of the set of disparate femto access point devices, and

based on the association data, determining a hierarchical data structure combining a set of access control data structures associated with the set of disparate femto access point devices, wherein the set of access control data structures comprise identifier data associated with user equipment that are authorized to access the set of disparate femto access point devices, and compressing the hierarchical data structure based on wavelet compression.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the operations further comprise:

facilitating sharing of attribute field data associated with a set of the user equipment between a subset of the set of access control data structures.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the information comprises social interaction data related to the set of disparate femto access point devices received from a social network web server.

4. The system of claim 3 , wherein the operations further comprise:

classifying the social interaction data based on a criterion, wherein the association data is determined based on the classifying.

5. The system of claim 4 , wherein the criterion comprises a temporal criterion.

6. The system of claim 4 , wherein the criterion comprises a location criterion.

7. The system of claim 4 , wherein the operations further comprise:

based on the classifying, determining service customization data associated with a subset of the set of disparate femto access point devices.

8. The system of claim 4 , wherein the operations further comprise:

based on the classifying, determining product commercialization data associated with a subset of the set of disparate femto access point devices.

9. The system of claim 1 , wherein the information comprises service subscription data.

10. The system of claim 9 , wherein the service subscription data is associated with a multimedia share service.

11. The system of claim 1 , wherein the information comprises ecommerce data received from a network server.

12. A method, comprising:

analyzing, by a system comprising a processor, data related to a set of disparate femto access point devices that is received via a data store within a macro network;

based on the analyzing, determining, by the system, relationship data indicative of a relationship between a subset of the set of disparate femto access point devices;

based on the relationship data, determining, by the system, a hierarchical data structure representing access control data structures of the subset of the set of disparate femto access point devices, wherein the access control data structures comprise identifier data associated with user equipment that are authorized to access the subset of the set of disparate femto access point devices; and

compressing the hierarchical data structure based on wavelet compression.

13. The method of claim 12 , wherein the determining the hierarchical data structure comprises determining a tree data structure comprising a hierarchical set of nodes at which the identifier data is stored.

14. The method of claim 12 , wherein the data comprises ecommerce data and the method further comprises:

receiving, by the system, the ecommerce data from a network server.

15. The method of claim 12 , wherein the data comprises social network data and the method further comprises:

receiving, by the system, the social network data from a social networking web server.

16. The method of claim 15 , further comprising:

classifying, by the system, the social network data based on a criterion, wherein the determining the relationship data comprises determining the relationship data based on the classifying.

17. The method of claim 16 , wherein the classifying comprises classifying the social network data based on a temporal criterion.

18. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising computer-executable instructions that, in response to execution, cause a system comprising a processor to perform operations, comprising:

analyzing data related to a first femto access point device and a second femto access point device;

determining association data indicative of an association between the first femto access point device and the second femto access point device based on the analyzing; and

determining a hierarchical data structure that combines a first access control data structure of the first femto access point device and a second access control data structure of the second femto access point device, wherein the first access control data structure comprises first identifier data associated with a first set of user equipment that is authorized to access the first femto access point device and the second access control data structure comprises second identifier data associated with a second set of user equipment that is authorized to access the second femto access point device; and

compressing the hierarchical data structure based on wavelet compression.

19. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 18 , wherein the data comprises social interaction data received via a social networking platform device.

20. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 19 , wherein the operations further comprise:

classifying the social interaction data based on a criterion, wherein the association data is determined based on the classifying.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 21, 2013
From: HUBER, KURT DONALD; FLYNN, JUDSON JOHN; MANSFIELD, WILLIAM GORDON
To: AT&T MOBILITY II LLC
Reel/Frame 030458/0244 →
Continuity (4)
Division 13298924 · Nov 17, 2011
Continuation 12276238 · Nov 21, 2008
Provisional Application 61052813 · May 13, 2008
Related Publication 20130252604A1 · Sep 26, 2013