Patent ID: 11930040
Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 18:
19. A non-transitory machine-readable medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processor, facilitate performance of operations, the operations comprising:
determining whether there is an occurrence of a malicious event relating to a portion of a group of user equipment associated with a radio access network equipment of a communication network to disrupt a service associated with the radio access network equipment, based on evaluation of information relating to respective characteristics associated with respective user equipment of the group of user equipment and a defined baseline that indicates whether the malicious event is occurring, wherein the group of user equipment comprises a first user equipment and a second user equipment; and
in connection with the first user equipment and the second user equipment attempting to attach to the radio access network equipment, and in response to determining that there is the occurrence of the malicious event:
determining a first priority level associated with a first message attempted to be communicated by the first user equipment, and a second priority level associated with a second message attempted to be communicated by the second user equipment, based on the evaluation;
determining that the first user equipment is permitted to be attached to the radio access network equipment to communicate the first message based on the first priority level being determined to satisfy a defined threshold priority level; and
determining that the second user equipment is not permitted to be attached to the radio access network equipment based on the second priority level being determined not to satisfy the defined threshold priority level.