Abstract: A system is described for providing personalized network access and services in a distributed end-to-end broadband transport network having a telecommunication device used by a user having a unique personal identifier, a premises-based broadband access agent (BAA), the BAA connected to and in communication with the telecommunication device, a switch specific to an underlying transport medium, the switch connected to and in communication with the distributed end-to-end broadband transport network, a network access server platform (NASP), the NASP connected to and in communication with the BAA and the switch, the NASP provides personalized network access and services on demand and a call connection agent (CCA) to complete a call placed by the user to a terminating user.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 8, 2002
Date of Patent:
September 7, 2010
Assignee:
AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.
Inventors:
Albert T. Chow, Kenny X. Huang, Jinman Kim, Robert R. Miller, Wenchu Ying