Patent ID: 11950177
Assignee: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 16:
17. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions executable by a processor of a network device, which when executed cause the network device to:
store one or more criteria that indicate when to block delivery of application layer messages;
receive, from an end device, an application layer message that includes an identifier of the end device, a value appended to the identifier that indicates that the end device is subject to blocking delivery, and a destination address of another device that is to be a recipient of the application layer message;
determine, based on the destination address, the identifier of the end device, the value, and the one or more criteria, to block delivery of the application layer message to the other device; and
block, based on the determination, delivery of the application layer message.