Patent ID: 11909885
Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 14:
15. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 11, wherein the operations further comprise:
generating third encrypted data;
generating a third hash code corresponding to the third encrypted data, wherein the decryption key corresponding to the first encrypted data comprises a combination of the key associated with the first network equipment, the second hash code, and the third hash code;
sending, via the network to the group of network equipment comprising the first network equipment, the second network equipment, and third network equipment, the first encrypted data, the second encrypted data, the third encrypted data, the first hash code, the second hash code, and the third hash code, wherein the first network equipment deletes the second encrypted data after the first network device hashes the second encrypted data and the first network equipment deletes the third encrypted data after the first network equipment hashes hashing the third encrypted data; and
in response to the second network equipment being determined not to have received the second hash code within the defined threshold time, or the third network equipment being determined not to have received the third hash code within the defined threshold time, determining that the first network equipment is unauthorized to use the network.