Patents Assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
  • Patent number: 11956708
    Abstract: A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium are described in which an application-based access control service is provided. The service assigns network slice priority values to network slices that are associated with an application or a portion of an application pertaining to end devices. The service calculates a network slice priority value to manage access barring based on a congestion level, and transmits the network slice priority value to end devices. End devices may determine whether access is permitted or not based on the network slice priority value and the assigned network slice priority values associated with the network slices. The service further provides access barring information to network devices of an access network that allows the network devices to reject connection requests and release existing connections. The access barring information may include a network slice priority value and/or network slice identifiers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Frank Jager, Sudhakar Reddy Patil, Kristen Sydney Young
  • Patent number: 11954177
    Abstract: Systems and methods described herein provide an online constraint optimizing service that evaluates user requests and inquiries for telecommunications services in the context of a real-time constraint-based analysis. According to an implementation, a network device receives a function for an analytic event and a constraint. The function applies different user attributes for a telecommunications network. The network device generates a training data set using offline constrained optimization of the function. The network device develops a predictive model for utilization of network resources in the telecommunications network using the training data set. The network device receives a user request that corresponds to the analytic event addressed by the predictive model and conducts an online prescriptive analysis using the predictive model. The network device optimizes allocation of the network resources to the user based on the prescriptive analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Kushal Singla, Sidakpreet Singh Chawla, Ebenezer Bardhan, Pooja Khivesara
  • Patent number: 11954237
    Abstract: A user device may invoke, for a user associated with an unavailable user device, a guest mode, and may connect the user device with a network device based on invoking the guest mode. The user device may provide credentials of the user and a secure input of the user to the network device based on invoking the guest mode, and may receive an identity service and an emergency service for the user when the secure input is authenticated by the network device. The user device may associate, via the identity service, the user with the user device to enable the user to utilize the emergency service, and may provide, via the emergency service, one or more emergency notifications. The user device may receive an indication of the user exiting the guest mode, and may remove the credentials of the user from a memory based on the indication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Mun Wei Low, Dante J. Pacella, Tanisha Sharma, Eric T. Bax, Manuel Enrique Caceres
  • Patent number: 11956932
    Abstract: A device may monitor an intake temperature of an air flow through an air intake of a building that includes a ventilation system for temperature control of a first region of the building, a liquid cooling system for temperature control of equipment that is within a second region of the building, and a heat exchanger that is thermally coupled to the ventilation system and the liquid cooling system. The device may determine that the intake temperature is below a threshold temperature. The device may control the ventilation system to cause the air flow to cool a water flow of the liquid cooling system via the heat exchanger to produce a cooled water flow. The device may control the liquid cooling system to cause the cooled water flow of the liquid cooling system to bypass a chiller system of the liquid cooling system to reduce power consumption by the chiller system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Lawrence Gregory Cooke, Guering J. Fernandez
  • Patent number: 11956222
    Abstract: One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for end-to-end encryption for multiple recipient devices are provided. A first registration, comprising a first device public key, is created for a first device. A second registration, comprising a second device public key, is created for a second device. A first notify message of the second registration and second device public key is provided to the first device. A second notify message is provided to the second device of the first registration and first device public key. A secure communication invite is routed to the first device. An encrypted message, comprising a first device private key, is routed from the first device to the second device. End-to-end encrypted communication between a sender device and the first device and the second device using the first device private key is facilitated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Wahlon Lam, Ashwin Swaminathan, Wen Zea Kuo, Rezwanul Azim
  • Patent number: 11956071
    Abstract: An example method includes receiving a message from a sending service and addressed to a destination service. The message is sent to the destination service using a synchronous message modality responsive to a communication history parameter for the destination service indicating a synchronous message type. The message is sent to the destination service using an asynchronous message modality responsive to the communication history parameter indicating an asynchronous message type. A reply is received from the destination service and the reply is sent to the sending service. The synchronous message modality comprises waiting for a reply to be received from the destination service for a predetermined time interval. The asynchronous message modality comprises storing identification data associated with the message in a correlation data store, receiving the reply from the destination service, and determining whether the reply is associated with the message based on the identification data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Randolph Torres, Ralph Stagg, Michael T. Bayne, Sutap Chatterjee, Tri Bui
  • Patent number: 11956121
    Abstract: A method, a network device, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are described in relation to an edge cloud management service. The edge cloud management service may automate the provisioning, maintenance, supervision across multi-vendor network devices in a private/enterprise environment. Further, the edge cloud management service may provide abstraction and normalization services across multi-vendor components and enable KPI monitoring, location data, edge discovery metrics, end-to-end latency computation across various cloud service provider technologies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Medha Joshi, Patricia R. Chang, Yann Sendra, John Patrick Hickey, III
  • Patent number: 11956848
    Abstract: A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium are described in which a dynamic C-DRX provisioning service is provided. The service may disable or enable discontinuous reception on a per end device application or network slice basis. The service may invoke an end device capability procedure to modify a discontinuous reception configuration of a network. The service may store information that correlates an application or network slice to a discontinuous reception setting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Brian T. Mecum, Balaji L. Raghavachari, Garima Garg, Taussif Khan, Lily Zhu
  • Patent number: 11956322
    Abstract: A network device may receive, for an emergency call, a session initiation protocol (SIP) invite that includes a registered address of a user device that initiated the emergency call, and may determine whether the user device is associated with a private network based on the SIP invite. The network device may extract the registered address of the user device from the SIP invite and based on the user device being associated with the private network, and may provide the registered address to another network device. The other network device may determine a registered geographic location of the user device, based on the registered address, and may provide the registered geographic location to a public safety answering point associated with the emergency call.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Vijayakrishna P. Guduru, Sudhakar Reddy Patil, Raquel Morera Sempere, Ravi Potluri
  • Patent number: 11955008
    Abstract: A device receives a first message indicating that a base station transmitted content relating to vehicle operation to a telemetry device associated with a first vehicle. The device processes the content to affect driving behavior of the first vehicle. The device generates a second message that includes a link to the content. The device sends the second message to a remote device, associated with a second vehicle. The device, by sending the second message to the remote device, causes the remote device to download the content via the link and send the second message to a neighbor device, associated with a third vehicle, which causes the neighbor device to download the content via the link. By downloading the content, the remote device and the neighbor device process the content to affect driving behavior of the second vehicle and the third vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Lisewski, Arvind Basra
  • Patent number: 11956770
    Abstract: One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods are provided. In an example, a group member list is received in a device, and a group reporting schedule is received in the device. Reporting data is communicated by the device using the group reporting schedule. A group exit message is sent by the device responsive to determining a group exit condition associated with failing to detect communications from group members specified in the group member list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Carl Wang, Sudhir Korrapati
  • Patent number: 11956650
    Abstract: A device may receive network data from base stations associated with a network and may aggregate the network data to generate aggregated network data. The device may remove data that satisfies a threshold from the aggregated network data to generate a reduced set of the aggregated network data. The device may divide the reduced set of the aggregated network data into groups of network factors associated with determining network parameters for the base stations. The device may apply weights to the network factors in the groups of network factors to generate groups of weighted network factors and may generate baselines for the network parameters based on the groups of weighted network factors. The device may compare the network data and the baselines to identify one or more anomalies in the network parameters and may perform one or more actions based on the one or more anomalies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Brandon Scott Atkins, Timothy E. Coyle, Lindsay M. Weinberg, Zachary Wozich, Michael J. Schaafsma
  • Patent number: 11956651
    Abstract: A system for simulating a wireless communication network over a wired network may comprise a plurality of physical UEs, one or more RANs, and a channel condition emulator. The plurality of UEs may be coupled to one another through the wired network. The one or more RANs may be simulated in software to simulate data transmissions between the plurality of UEs. The channel condition emulator may be simulated in software to derive channel conditions for each of the plurality of UEs based on their current location. The channel condition emulator may further provide the channel conditions to the plurality of UEs and the one or more RANs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Mourad B. Takla, Chin Chiu
  • Patent number: 11956143
    Abstract: A source network device may receive a multicast data stream to be provided to a plurality of network devices of a network, and may generate, for the multicast data stream, a segment routing header that identifies the plurality of network devices to be provided the multicast data stream. The source network device may cause the multicast data stream to be serially provided to the plurality of network devices identified in the segment routing header without requiring the plurality of network devices to store and reconstruct the segment routing header and without requiring the plurality of network devices to maintain state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Nicklous Dale Morris, David Taft, Luay Jalil
  • Publication number: 20240114321
    Abstract: In some aspects, the techniques described herein relate to a method including: receiving, via a network, a message addressed to a mobile device number (MDN); identifying, by the network, a set of hunt group devices associated with the MDN, the set of hunt group devices including at least a first hunt group device and a second hunt group device; transmitting, by the network, the message to each hunt group device in the set of hunt group devices; receiving, by the network, a reply to the message from the first hunt group device; transmitting, by the network, the reply to a sender of the message; and transmitting, by the network, the reply to at least the second hunt group device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicant: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.
    Inventors: Chaithanya VASILI, Ashwin R. KAMATH
  • Publication number: 20240112012
    Abstract: A device may receive network resource model (NRM) data identifying application layer data, user related data, network layer data, and physical layer data associated with a network, and may generate a graphical NRM that is a causal graph representation of the NRM data. The device may merge key performance indicators (KPIs) and network interventions with the graphical NRM, and may generate a hypergraph NRM. The device may determine first embeddings that preserve a structure of the graphical NRM and second embeddings that preserve a structure of the hypergraph NRM, and may train a causal impact model, based on the first embeddings, the second embeddings, a pre-intervention period, and a post-intervention period, to generate learned relationships. The device may retrain the causal impact model based on the learned relationships to generate a trained causal impact model, and may perform one or more actions with the trained causal impact model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2022
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Said SOULHI, Bryan Christopher LARISH
  • Patent number: 11948125
    Abstract: One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for determining statuses of objects using sensors are provided. For example, a first signal is received from a first device comprising a first sensor. The first signal is indicative of a first identifier associated with a first object that the first device is coupled to and/or one or more first properties detected by the first sensor. A first status associated with the first object is determined based upon the first identifier and/or the one or more first properties. In an example, a system comprises a first device coupled to a first object. The first device comprises a first sensor configured to detect one or more first properties of the first object. The first device comprises a first transmitter configured to transmit a first signal indicative of the one or more first properties and/or a first identifier associated with the first object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Aaron John Klish, Jon Kilroy, Emily Bernotas, Richard Pace, Kima Kheirolomoom
  • Patent number: 11948289
    Abstract: A device may receive frames of a video capturing an analog meter with a dial and a needle, may process the frames to identify a center, a radius, and a perimeter of the dial, and may determine calibrated values for the dial. The device may apply a model to one of the frames to create a base mask, may apply thresholding for a dynamic HSV bounding value, to the base mask and the frames, to create masked frames, and may identify contours for the masked frames. The device may identify a quantity of points for each of the contours, may estimate angles of the needle of the analog meter based on the quantity of points, and may average the estimated angles to determine an averaged needle angle. The device may determine a needle direction based on the averaged needle angle and may calculate a meter reading.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Hitesh K. Patel, Benjamin D. Allen, Gaurav Goel
  • Patent number: 11949569
    Abstract: A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium are described, which provide a recommendation system with performance management service. The service may include selecting and ranking content that relate to a user query and a problem associated with an application and/or a device. The service may include invoking a remedial procedure based on user feedback data. The service may include similarity and classification models based on successful recommendation records.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventor: Sundara Kesavan
  • Patent number: 11950177
    Abstract: A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium are described in which an blocking delivery service is provided. The service may use an identifier of a source end device, destination address information associated with a destination end device, and configurable criteria as a basis to block delivery of application service layer data. The service may be configured to apply to end devices based on an addressing scheme of the service. The service may be configured on a network device that provides an application service. The service may block delivery without the use of class of service or subscriber provisioning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Lim, Craig Barth, Brian Olson, Ye Huang, Joseph Lee, Tony Ferreira