Patents Assigned to AT&T Technical Services Company, Inc.
  • Publication number: 20220061050
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, detecting a first wireless signal associated with a first communication device that interferes with a second wireless signal associated with a second communication device. Further embodiments include identifying a first frequency band in which the first wireless signal is assigned, the first frequency band associated with a first mobile network, and identifying a second frequency band in which the second wireless signal is assigned, the second frequency band associated with a second mobile network. Additional embodiments can include detecting the first wireless signal is above a first power threshold, and providing instructions to a base station associated with the first communication device. The instructions indicate the base station to assign first wireless signal associated with the first communication device from the first frequency band to a third frequency band associated with the first mobile network. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Applicants: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Technical Services Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Vivanco, Slawomir Stawiarski, David Ross Beppler
  • Publication number: 20220046549
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method in which a processing system of a first network element receives information indicating that a user equipment (UE) support dual connectivity with first and second inter-radio access technologies (IRATs). The UE is enabled to communicate with a second network element using the second IRAT. The system provides to the UE uplink power configurations for data transmissions between the UE and the network elements, and performs a closed loop control procedure that includes determining a first transmit power control (TPC) value for first data transmissions from the UE and a second TPC value for second data transmissions from the UE, and adjusting the first TPC value and the second TPC value to allocate UE uplink transmission power between the first IRAT and the second IRAT. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2021
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Applicants: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Technical Services Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Vivanco, Slawomir Stawiarski, David Ross Beppler
  • Patent number: 11224013
    Abstract: In multicarrier networks mobile devices can be distributed amongst carriers based on different criteria. However, prioritization may cause certain devices to end up on a carrier that is not optimal for the network. When there is a deployment of different types of cells (e.g., macro cells, small cells, etc.), the cells can use the same frequency. Consequently, a priority value contained within a system information broadcast message can override the mobile default cell transition procedures and thus select a neighboring cell based on additional criteria. Thus, small cells can be deployed to offload traffic from macro cells in spite of the small cells and macro cells operating in the same frequency band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignees: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P., AT&T TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Slawomir Stawiarski, Daniel Vivanco, Mark Stockert
  • Patent number: 11197217
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining, for a plurality of dual connectivity mobile communication devices that are in communication range of a first access point that uses a first radio access technology and a second access point that uses a second radio access technology, a plurality of network communication parameters, the first radio access technology being a different radio access technology than the second radio access technology; obtaining a list of a plurality of configurations, each configuration identifying one or more time slots in which the first radio access technology is to be used and one or more other time slots in which the second radio access technology is to be used; selecting, from the list, a respective configuration to apply to each of the plurality of dual connectivity mobile communication devices, a first configuration that is selected being selected based at least in part upon one or more first network communication parameters, a second configuration that
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Technical Services Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Vivanco, David Ross Beppler, Slawomir Stawiarski
  • Publication number: 20210359898
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, identifying a plurality of mobile devices implementing an application, and identifying a group of mobile devices from among the plurality of mobile devices according to a first movement pattern of the group of mobile devices. Further aspects can include identifying a first mobile edge compute (MEC) node at a first location according to a proximity threshold that does not include a MEC agent for the application, and identifying a second MEC node at a second location that includes the MEC agent for the application according to the proximity threshold. Additional aspects can include determining a first network relative performance (NRP) metric associated with a first communications between the group of mobile devices and the second MEC node. The first communications are associated with the application. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Applicants: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Technical Services Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Stockert, Pamela Stuckman, Linda Baughman, Daniel Vivanco, Harold Kackley, Margaret Mayne
  • Patent number: 11172451
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method in which a processing system of a first network element receives information indicating that a user equipment (UE) support dual connectivity with first and second inter-radio access technologies (IRATs). The UE is enabled to communicate with a second network element using the second IRAT. The system provides to the UE uplink power configurations for data transmissions between the UE and the network elements, and performs a closed loop control procedure that includes determining a first transmit power control (TPC) value for first data transmissions from the UE and a second TPC value for second data transmissions from the UE, and adjusting the first TPC value and the second TPC value to allocate UE uplink transmission power between the first IRAT and the second IRAT. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Technical Services Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Vivanco, Slawomir Stawiarski, David Ross Beppler
  • Publication number: 20210329458
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining a preliminary transmission received from a first wireless access terminal of a wireless network, at a mobile terminal, wherein the obtaining of the preliminary transmission occurs before a successful completion of an attachment process between the mobile terminal and the first wireless access terminal, and wherein access to a network resource by the mobile terminal via the wireless network requires a successful completion of the attachment process. A physical relationship is determined between the mobile terminal and the first wireless access terminal according to the preliminary transmission, resulting in a determined physical relationship. The determined physical relationship is compared to a predetermined threshold value to obtain a comparison result and successful completion of the attachment process is prevented based on the comparison result indicating a suspect condition. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Applicants: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Technical Services Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Vivanco, Tyann Lavender, Thomas W. Henderson
  • Patent number: 11115931
    Abstract: Various embodiments disclosed herein provide for facilitating uplink interference avoidance. According an embodiment, a system can comprise receiving a request to adjust an uplink power limit of a first communication device that is generating an uplink interference above a threshold and a power adjustment value employable to adjust the uplink power limit of the first communication device. The system can further facilitate identifying a packet flow in an uplink communication with the first communication device, wherein use of the packet flow results in generating of the uplink interference above the threshold. The system can further facilitate determining whether the uplink power limit of the first communication device is able to be adjusted based on a quality of service allocated to the packet flow. The system can further facilitate transmitting a message to update the uplink power limit of the first communication device using the power adjustment value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignees: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P., AT&T TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Daniel Vivanco, Arthur Brisebois, David Ross Beppler, Thomas Henderson
  • Patent number: 11108617
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, identifying a plurality of mobile devices implementing an application, and identifying a group of mobile devices from among the plurality of mobile devices according to a first movement pattern of the group of mobile devices. Further aspects can include identifying a first mobile edge compute (MEC) node at a first location according to a proximity threshold that does not include a MEC agent for the application, and identifying a second MEC node at a second location that includes the MEC agent for the application according to the proximity threshold. Additional aspects can include determining a first network relative performance (NRP) metric associated with a first communications between the group of mobile devices and the second MEC node. The first communications are associated with the application. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignees: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P., AT&T TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Mark Stockert, Pamela Stuckman, Linda Baughman, Daniel Vivanco, Harold Kackley, Margaret Mayne
  • Patent number: 11082853
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining a preliminary transmission received from a first wireless access terminal of a wireless network, at a mobile terminal, wherein the obtaining of the preliminary transmission occurs before a successful completion of an attachment process between the mobile terminal and the first wireless access terminal, and wherein access to a network resource by the mobile terminal via the wireless network requires a successful completion of the attachment process. A physical relationship is determined between the mobile terminal and the first wireless access terminal according to the preliminary transmission, resulting in a determined physical relationship. The determined physical relationship is compared to a predetermined threshold value to obtain a comparison result and successful completion of the attachment process is prevented based on the comparison result indicating a suspect condition. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Technical Services Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Vivanco, Tyann Lavender, Thomas W. Henderson
  • Publication number: 20210235377
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, detecting a transit speed of a device, resulting in a detected transit speed; responsive to the detected transit speed satisfying a first threshold, including information in a message related to a handover request between a first access point of a network and a second access point of the network, the information being indicative of an amount of time that the device has been in a Discontinuous Reception (DRX) mode; and sending, to the first access point with which the device communicates and is transitioning away from, the message including the information that is indicative of the amount of time that the device has been in the DRX mode. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2021
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Applicant: AT&T Technical Services Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Daniel Vivanco
  • Patent number: 11051222
    Abstract: Beamforming techniques can improve base station transmission power and user equipment (UE) sensitivity reception. For example, beamforming can create a narrow beam, which can concentrate signal power in a much smaller region. Combined with base station (gNB) requests and UE location data, an accurate beam can be generated to cover a desired area. 5G base station broadcasts can utilize a globally unique cell identifier (e.g., physical cell identifier), and a locally unique cell identifier (e.g., new radio cell global identifier) to facilitate beamforming and mitigate handover failure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignees: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P., AT&T Technical Services Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Vivanco, Mark Stockert, Slawomir Stawiarski
  • Patent number: 11039367
    Abstract: Measurement procedures are provided for a communication device. For instance, a system that comprises determining a probability value, wherein the probability value indicates a likelihood of a communication device, connected to a first network node device, connecting to a second network node device with attempts below a first threshold. The system can also comprise determining a scanning period interval value based on the probability value, used by the communication device, to adjust a scanning procedure usable for establishment of a connection with the second network node device, and requesting the communication device to utilize the scanning period interval value during the establishment of the connection with the second network node device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignees: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P., AT&T TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Daniel Vivanco, Mark Stockert, Slawomir Stawiarski
  • Patent number: 11039398
    Abstract: Various embodiments disclosed herein provide for facilitating uplink interference avoidance. According an embodiment, a system can comprise identifying network node devices and communication devices operating within a boundary located adjacent to an external system. The system can comprise determining communication settings of the communication devices that are engaged in an uplink session with the network node devices. The system can comprise estimating a total uplink interference into the external system based on a propagation model and an uplink power control value determined from the communication settings. The system can comprise in response to determining that the total uplink interference is greater than a defined value and in response to determining that the network node devices employed an open loop power control, requesting the network node devices to initiate an update to an uplink power limit (e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignees: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P., AT&T TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Daniel Vivanco, Thomas Henderson, David Ross Beppler, Arthur Brisebois
  • Patent number: 11006432
    Abstract: The technologies described herein are generally directed toward managing signal traffic in a wireless network. Example operations can include receiving, for a group of cells, a control channel utilization value for a control channel and a data channel utilization value for a data channel. The operations can further include generating, based on the control channel utilization value and a threshold, for a first cell of the group of cells, a channel allocation that can increase the balance of use of control channel resources and data channel resources for the first cell, and configuring the first cell of the group of cells to allocate control channel resources and data channel resources of the first cell based on the channel allocation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignees: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P., AT&T TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Daniel Vivanco, Slawomir Stawiarski, Mark Stockert
  • Patent number: 11006357
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, detecting a transit speed of a device, resulting in a detected transit speed; responsive to the detected transit speed satisfying a first threshold, including information in a message related to a handover request between a first access point of a network and a second access point of the network, the information being indicative of an amount of time that the device has been in a Discontinuous Reception (DRX) mode; and sending, to the first access point with which the device communicates and is transitioning away from, the message including the information that is indicative of the amount of time that the device has been in the DRX mode. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T Technical Services Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Daniel Vivanco
  • Publication number: 20210068124
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, initiating emergency QoS measures in a RAN cell responsive to detecting an emergency condition applicable to the RAN cell, identifying, among a plurality of wireless communication devices served by the RAN cell, a set of non-emergency devices, identifying, among the set of non-emergency devices, one or more carrier aggregation (CA)-prone devices, and applying an updated buffer threshold value for a CA-prone device among the one or more CA-prone devices, to reduce a likelihood of initiation of carrier aggregation for the CA-prone device. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2020
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Applicants: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Technical Services Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Vivanco, Wenge Chen
  • Publication number: 20210044979
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining a preliminary transmission received from a first wireless access terminal of a wireless network, at a mobile terminal, wherein the obtaining of the preliminary transmission occurs before a successful completion of an attachment process between the mobile terminal and the first wireless access terminal, and wherein access to a network resource by the mobile terminal via the wireless network requires a successful completion of the attachment process. A physical relationship is determined between the mobile terminal and the first wireless access terminal according to the preliminary transmission, resulting in a determined physical relationship. The determined physical relationship is compared to a predetermined threshold value to obtain a comparison result and successful completion of the attachment process is prevented based on the comparison result indicating a suspect condition. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2019
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Applicants: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Technical Services Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Vivanco, Tyann Lavender, Thomas W. Henderson
  • Publication number: 20200396682
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, detecting a transit speed of a device, resulting in a detected transit speed; responsive to the detected transit speed satisfying a first threshold, including information in a message related to a handover request between a first access point of a network and a second access point of the network, the information being indicative of an amount of time that the device has been in a Discontinuous Reception (DRX) mode; and sending, to the first access point with which the device communicates and is transitioning away from, the message including the information that is indicative of the amount of time that the device has been in the DRX mode. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Publication date: December 17, 2020
    Applicant: AT&T Technical Services Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Daniel Vivanco
  • Publication number: 20200396118
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, identifying a plurality of mobile devices implementing an application, and identifying a group of mobile devices from among the plurality of mobile devices according to a first movement pattern of the group of mobile devices. Further aspects can include identifying a first mobile edge compute (MEC) node at a first location according to a proximity threshold that does not include a MEC agent for the application, and identifying a second MEC node at a second location that includes the MEC agent for the application according to the proximity threshold. Additional aspects can include determining a first network relative performance (NRP) metric associated with a first communications between the group of mobile devices and the second MEC node. The first communications are associated with the application. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Publication date: December 17, 2020
    Applicants: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Technical Services Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Stockert, Pamela Stuckman, Linda Baughman, Daniel Vivanco, Harold Kackley, Margaret Mayne