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

Claim 0:
1. A method, comprising:
determining, by a system comprising a processor, whether there is an occurrence of a malicious event relating to a disruption of a service associated with radio access network equipment by a portion of a group of devices, based on analysis of information relating to respective characteristics associated with respective devices of the group of devices and a defined baseline that indicates whether the malicious event is occurring, wherein the group of devices comprises a first device and a second device; and
with regard to the first device and the second device attempting to connect to, and prior to connection to, the radio access network equipment, and in response to determining that there is the occurrence of the malicious event:
determining, by the system, a first level of criticality associated with a first message attempted to be communicated by the first device, and a second level of criticality associated with a second message attempted to be communicated by the second device, based on the analysis;
determining, by the system, that the first device is to be connected to the radio access network equipment to communicate the first message based on the first level of criticality being determined to satisfy a defined threshold level of criticality; and
determining, by the system, that the second device is to be prevented from connecting to the radio access network equipment based on the second level of criticality being determined not to satisfy the defined threshold level of criticality.