AT&T Patents Granted

Patents granted to AT&T by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11637607
    Abstract: Facilitating generic reciprocity-based channel state information acquisition frameworks for advanced networks (e.g., 4G, 5G, and beyond) is provided herein. Operations of a system can comprise determining first uplink channel state information for a first mobile device based on first downlink channel state information received from the first mobile device. The first mobile device can be from a group of mobile devices in a wireless communications network. The operations can also comprise training a model on a difference between the first downlink channel state information and the first uplink channel state information to a defined level of confidence. Further, the operations can comprise employing the model to determine, without receipt of second downlink channel state information from a second mobile device of the group of mobile devices, second uplink channel state information for the second mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Xiaoyi Wang, Arunabha Ghosh, SaiRamesh Nammi, Salam Akoum
  • Patent number: 11630718
    Abstract: Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for using user equipment data clusters and spatial temporal graphs of abnormalities for root cause analysis. User equipment data can be obtained from a cellular network. A filter having a threshold can be applied to the user equipment data to obtain a records. A determination is made whether the threshold is to be adaptively adjusted. If a determination is made that the threshold is not to be adjusted, the records can be added to a record set. The records in the subset of records can be correlated based on a key to obtain a filtered and correlated version of the record set, a spatial temporal graph of abnormalities associated with the cellular network can be generated based on the filtered and correlated version of the record set, and a root cause of a failure can be determined based on the spatial temporal graph of abnormalities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Mehdi Malboubi, Hyun Ok Lee, Baofeng Jiang
  • Patent number: 11632298
    Abstract: Configuration data associated with a router is converted. A selector tool identifies a first port of a first router having first data lines, and identifies a second port of a second router to receive the first data lines to be migrated from the first port. The first router and the second router use different, incompatible configuration data formats. A data transceiver captures first port configuration data associated with the first port of the first router, and a configuration data converter is to identify a type of interface associated with the captured first port configuration data and convert the captured first port configuration data from a first format compatible with the first router to a second format compatible with the second router based on the identified type of interface. A conversion file generator generates a configuration file containing the converted first port configuration data in the second format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventor: Gregory Blaine Adolphson
  • Patent number: 11632410
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining live video content from equipment of a media content provider, determining priority content within the live video content; segmenting the live video content into a plurality of tiles according to the priority content, and transcoding the live video content according to a type of client device. Further embodiments include determining an encoding schedule for the plurality of tiles according to the priority content, encoding the plurality of tiles according to the encoding schedule, and providing the plurality of tiles to the client device. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Bo Han, Sassan Pejhan, Vijay Gopalakrishnan
  • Patent number: 11632642
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method, comprising: receiving, by a media processor including a processor, spherical audiovisual media content from a content delivery network; rendering, by the media processor, video for a point of view in the spherical audiovisual media content at a display device coupled to the media processor; receiving, from a remote control device coupled to the media processor, a control signal panning the point of view, resulting in a new field of view; and generating, by the media processor, audio signals from the spherical audiovisual media content corresponding to the new field of view, wherein the audio signals are adapted to audio reproduction equipment coupled to the media processor. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventor: Manuel Briand
  • Patent number: 11631093
    Abstract: Concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to a flexible behavioral chain (“FBC”) framework for permission-based enterprise-focused blockchain applications. According to one aspect disclosed herein, a chain framework module (“CFM”) executed by a FBC system can receive a new block request to add a new block to an FBC. The new block request can be created by a trigger management module (“TMM”) executed by the FBC system in response to a trigger, such as a customer touchpoint, a customer engagement, a subscribed event, and/or a virtual event. In response to the new block request, the CFM can generate the new block. A customer value score derivation module (“CVSDM”) executed by the FBC system can determine a customer value score (“CVS”) for a customer. The CFM can incorporate the CVS into the new block. The CFM can connect the new block to the FBC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: James W. Fan, Dan Celenti, Alireza Hooshiari
  • Patent number: 11631318
    Abstract: A processing system including at least one processor may monitor a condition of a premises during a time period via at least one sensor, where at least one user is permitted a use of the premises during the time period, detect a change in the condition of the premises during the time period via the at least one sensor, determine a violation of at least one rule relating to the use of the premises by the at least one user, wherein the violation is indicated by the change in the condition, and generate an alert of the violation of the at least one rule relating to the use of the premises by the at least one user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Robert T. Moton, Jr., Adrianne Binh Luu, James Pratt, Barrett Kreiner, Walter Cooper Chastain, Ari Craine, Robert Koch
  • Patent number: 11631286
    Abstract: A smart communications hub can enable management of driverless and/or autonomous vehicles. Separating current wireless data from driverless vehicle sensor data can allow for quicker resolutions involving driverless vehicles. The smart communications hub can communicate to other groups such as driverless vehicle providers, service providers, vehicle management, law enforcement, etc. The smart communications hub can also process request from both mobile applications and micro-service applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T MOBILITY II LLC
    Inventor: Kaveri Raman
  • Patent number: 11632430
    Abstract: The concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to policy-based programmable Internet of Things (“IoT”) devices. An apparatus, for example, can include a device that includes an interface through which the device is to be connected to an asset. The asset can include one or more asset sensors. The device can include one or more device sensors, a network module, and a controller that executes instructions that cause the device to perform operations. In particular, the controller can execute instructions to cause the device to receive a device policy that instructs the device to collect device data from the device sensor(s) in accordance with a device ruleset. The device also can receive an asset policy that instructs the device to collect asset data from the asset sensor(s) in accordance with an asset ruleset. The device can collect the device data and the asset data in accordance with the device/asset policies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignees: AT&T Global Network Services Hong Kong LTD, AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Winnie Chau, John Philip Mulligan, Shashi Gowda
  • Patent number: 11632146
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, a system configured for generating a signal, and inducing, by a coupler, an electromagnetic wave that propagates along a physical transmission medium. The coupler can be configured to convert the signal into a plurality of wave modes that combine to form the electromagnetic wave having an electromagnetic field configuration that reduces leakage of the electromagnetic wave as the electromagnetic wave propagates along the physical transmission medium. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Emilio Alessandro Nanni, Paul Shala Henry, Liling Xiao, Jeffrey Michael Neilson
  • Patent number: 11632291
    Abstract: Prediction, detection and mitigation of network or device issues in a communication system are facilitated. An embodiment can comprise: determining whether an identified problem of a device has an associated defined solution stored in a repository of information; transmitting solution information representative of the associated defined solution to the device for application of the solution information to the device in a manner determined to have less than a defined amount of impact on the device and in accordance with defined security protocols of the device; and assessing a performance of the device after application of the solution information to the device to determine whether the solution information solved the identified problem. In some embodiments, solution detection can be performed such that based on a determination that the identified problem has been removed, the change that caused the identified problem can be determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignees: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P., AT&T MOBILITY II LLC
    Inventors: Michael Stephens, Arthur Brisebois
  • Patent number: 11632706
    Abstract: The technologies described herein are generally directed toward establishing a domain of authority for routing table updates from a routing device. According to an embodiment, a system can comprise a processor and a memory that can enable operations facilitating performance of operations including identifying a route update that comprises information about a network. According to the embodiment, the operations can further include communicating, via the network, the route update to a second routing device for propagation of the route update to routing devices in a first authority domain with the first routing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: John Barry Bartell, James Gordon Beattie, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11625379
    Abstract: In another example, a device includes a processor and a computer-readable medium storing instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations. The operations include acquiring a plurality of data items from a plurality of data sources, wherein the at least two data sources data sources of the plurality of data sources are maintained by different entities, normalizing attributes of the plurality of data items, using a first machine learning technique, matching at least two data items of the plurality of data items to form a grouping, wherein the matching is based on similarities observed in the attributes of the at least two data items subsequent to the normalizing, and creating a single profile for an individual associated with the at least two data items, based on the grouping, wherein the single profile consolidates the attributes of the at least two data items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Prince Paulraj, Shilpi Harpavat, Weiping Liu, Shreyash Taywade, Arjun Coimbatore Nagarasan, Yukun Zeng, Prabhu Gururaj
  • Patent number: 11627503
    Abstract: The described technology is generally directed towards intelligent dual-connectivity for non-standalone network nodes. Network nodes can report state information to a central controller, such as a radio access network intelligent controller. The controller can determine, based on the state information reported by multiple network nodes, network nodes to cooperate in non-standalone mode. The controller can provide the network nodes with instructions to implement the controller's non-standalone relationship determinations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Xuan Tuyen Tran, Matti Hiltunen, Slawomir Stawiarski, Yu Zhou, Gueyoung Jung, Rittwik Jana, Kaustubh Joshi
  • Patent number: 11626953
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a system can comprise a processor and a memory that can store executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations. The operations can include generating a first signal in an initial domain and transforming the first signal into a first portion of a time-frequency grid of a time-frequency domain, resulting in a transformed first signal. The operations further include combining the transformed first signal with a second signal of a second portion of the time-frequency grid, resulting in a combined signal, and transmitting the combined signal to a user equipment device for a further transformation. The operations further include receiving a response signal from the user equipment device that was configured, based on the further transformed first signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Xiaoyi Wang, Salam Akoum, Ralf Bendlin
  • Patent number: 11627032
    Abstract: A system comprising a network cloud configured for a point of deployment containerized environment, a plurality of servers in communication with the network cloud, configured to establishing a point of deployment (POD) in one of the plurality of servers, receiving a determination that the POD is not operational, mapping the topology of the POD, and based on the mapping step, troubleshooting the POD in accordance with a set of rules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Zhiqiang Qian, Soumyajit Chakraborty
  • Patent number: 11627457
    Abstract: Unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) can be supported by a smart communications hub. Network slices can be utilized to provide services to a UAS that has provided its remote identification number to a network node. After the UAS has been authenticated, by an authentication network slice, based on policies hosted at a service capabilities exposure function (SCEF), the UAS can utilize services provided by other network slices. Additionally, or alternatively, a user equipment associated with the UAS can be provided with suggested services hosted on other slices to which the UAS has not been previously subscribed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventor: Kaveri Raman
  • Patent number: 11627107
    Abstract: An integrated GW (I-GW) can be utilized to facilitate communications with Internet of things (IoT) devices that operate without Internet protocol (IP) addresses, based on assigned preferences and/or priority. In one aspect, the I-GW can efficiently deliver existing services for various types of IoT devices (e.g., that support different non-IP protocols) and can create emerging applications across different vertical applications. Further, the I-GW can leverage mobility network elements to authenticate, prioritize connections, and/or enable data orchestration via underlying software defined network (SDN)-enabled capabilities and/or infrastructure services. By utilizing IoT devices that do not have IP stacks, a cost and/or size of the IoT devices can be decreased and battery life can be significantly extended.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignees: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P., AT&T MOBILITY II LLC
    Inventors: Erie Lai Har Lau, Zhi Cui, Sangar Dowlatkhah
  • Patent number: 11627092
    Abstract: The technologies described herein are generally directed to modeling radio wave propagation in a fifth generation (5G) network or other next generation networks. For example, a method described herein can include, for a network application, identifying, by a system comprising a processor, a characteristic value of a performance characteristic associated with an uplink connection enabled via a network of a user equipment to application server equipment hosting the network application. The method can further include, based on the characteristic value and a criterion, selecting, by the system, a first packet size for the uplink connection. The method can further include communicating, by the system, to the user equipment, the first packet size for use with the uplink connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Rajarajan Sivaraj, Kittipat Apicharttrisorn, Bharath Balasubramanian, Rittwik Jana, Subhabrata Sen, Dhruv Gupta, Jin Wang
  • Patent number: 11625264
    Abstract: Mobility service providers and others can use cloud platforms to meet customer demand. Due to changing demand or changing technology numerous issues arise. For example, server utilization within the cloud platform can become less efficient over time. As another example, virtual machines and virtual network functions processed by the cloud platform typically need to be extensively tested and certified, which can be expensive. Moreover, intra-platform communication can play a significant role in the costs to operate a cloud platform. Techniques detailed herein can address many of these issues, e.g., by providing mechanisms for increasing host or server utilization in response to changing demand, introducing a container technique for virtual machines to mitigate testing costs, and modeling bandwidth resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Eric Rosenberg, Kartik Pandit
  • Patent number: 11627513
    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: May 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignees: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P., AT&T TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Daniel Vivanco, Mark Stockert, Slawomir Stawiarski
  • Patent number: 11627579
    Abstract: User equipments (UEs) can be efficiently clustered into groups of UEs where a UE of a group can be selected as a host UE to communicate with a radio access network (RAN) on behalf of other UEs in the group. A resource manager component can receive information, including predictive information of predicted future UE performance or characteristics, relating to respective power availability, signal strength, data performance, and transit vectors of respective UEs from UEs in an area, and determine which UEs are to be clustered in a group and which UE(s) of the group is to be a host UE(s) for the group based on such information. The host UE can facilitate communications between the other UEs in the group and the RAN. The resource manager component also can employ a round-robin technique for substantially equal sharing of duties as host UE among multiple UEs of the group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignees: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P., AT&T MOBILITY II LLC
    Inventors: James Gordon Beattie, Jr., Haywood Peitzer
  • Patent number: 11626992
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device with a processing system including a processor; and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations including receiving a first record of sending a file and a hash for the file from a sender of the file; recording the first record on a blockchain; providing the first record to a receiver of the file; and monitoring a predetermined time period in which to receive a second record of receiving the file and the hash for the file. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Yaron Kanza, Divesh Srivastava, Tamraparni Dasu, Eleftherios Koutsofios
  • Patent number: 11626927
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving a first optical signal from a first optical network via a first port of the wavelength converter, receiving a second optical signal from a second optical network via a second port of the wavelength converter, modulating the first optical signal with the second light signal to generate a third optical signal, eliminating the first light signal from the third optical signal to generate a fourth optical signal, and transmitting the fourth optical signal through the second optical network. The first optical signal can include a first digital signal modulated onto a first light signal of a first wavelength, the second optical signal can include a second light signal can include a second wavelength different from the first wavelength, and the fourth optical signal can include the first digital signal modulated onto the second light signal. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Ricky Perry, Kent McCammon
  • Patent number: 11627519
    Abstract: Discontinuous access to unlicensed spectrum is facilitated in a new radio access environment. According to an embodiment, a system can comprise performing a scanning procedure that determines whether a first subband and a second subband is available for transmission. The system can further facilitate determining whether the first subband and the second subband are adjacent, wherein a first channel formed at the first subband comprising a first guard band and a second channel formed at the second subband comprising a second guard band that is adjacent to the first guard band. The system can further facilitate in response to determining that the first subband and the second subband are adjacent and available for transmission, eliminating the first guard band and the second guard band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Ralf Bendlin, Aditya Chopra, Arunabha Ghosh, Abdulrauf Hafeez
  • Patent number: 11627046
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining, from a first source of information, a first bandwidth prediction, wherein the first bandwidth prediction is based upon historical bandwidth data that had been provided by a plurality of devices; obtaining, from a second source of information, a second bandwidth prediction, wherein the second bandwidth prediction is based upon network measurements, and wherein the network measurements are other than the historical bandwidth data that had been provided by the plurality of devices; selecting as a source of a future bandwidth prediction one of the first source of information and the second source of information, wherein the selecting is based upon a comparison of each of the first bandwidth prediction and the second bandwidth prediction to an actually obtained bandwidth of the device. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Emir Halepovic, Matteo Varvello
  • Patent number: 11627480
    Abstract: Generating a core instance via a first access network device of a first access network, wherein the core instance facilitates operation of a second access network via a second access network device of the second access network is disclosed. Generally, implementing a core network can be highly resource intensive, e.g., high labor, equipment, and monetary costs. The level of resources that are conventionally committed in developing a core instance can be a significant barrier for many small or medium sized entities. The disclosed subject matter discloses a configuration component that can generate a core instance that can be performed at a remotely located access network. In an embodiment, a remotely implemented core instance can be updatable. Further, in response to a remotely implemented core instance failing to perform, a monitoring component can facilitate a failover operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T MOBILITY II LLC
    Inventor: Arturo Maria
  • Patent number: 11620664
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses may provide for the auto-determination of partial usage of a physical environment and use derived intelligence to take various actions. This may allow for partial resulting maintenance of the physical environment based on a single use or use over time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Robert Koch, Nikhil Marathe, James Pratt, Ari Craine, Eric Zavesky, Timothy Innes, Nigel Bradley
  • Patent number: 11620382
    Abstract: Methods, computer-readable media, and devices for auditing digital content to validate that the digital content is authentic, secure, and reaching the intended audience are disclosed. In one example, a method performed by a processing system including at least one processor includes launching a web browser application, wherein the launching includes instantiating a simulated user profile, and wherein the simulated user profile includes a simulated web browsing history, detecting, by the processing system, an item of digital content that is presented to the web browser application in response to the simulated user profile, determining, by the processing system, a relevance of the item of digital content to the simulated user profile, and generating, by the processing system, a report that indicates the relevance of the item of digital content to the user profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T Technical Services Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Fred Stringer
  • Patent number: 11622298
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, computing a first time gap associated with a completion of a first transfer of first data via a first network connection and a completion of a second transfer of second data via a second network connection that is different from the first network connection, determining, based on the computing of the first time gap, that the first time gap exceeds a threshold, and adjusting, based on the determining, respective shares of third data that are to be transferred via the first network connection and the second network connection. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Technical Services Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Vivanco, David Ross Beppler, Slawomir Mikolaj Stawiarski
  • Patent number: 11622352
    Abstract: Facilitating receiver beamforming and antenna panel switching in advanced networks (e.g., 4G, 5G, and beyond) is provided herein. Operations of a system can comprise performing a receiver beam evaluation procedure that determines whether a receiving beam is to be changed from a first receiving beam to a second receiving beam. The operations can also comprise transmitting, to a network device, a request for permission to perform a beam management procedure that switches the receiving beam from the first receiving beam to the second receiving beam. Further, the operations can comprise receiving, from the network device, a response to the request. The response can comprise an indication of an action to be performed based on a result of the receiver beam evaluation procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Xiaoyi Wang, Arunabha Ghosh, SaiRamesh Nammi, Salam Akoum
  • Patent number: 11622289
    Abstract: The disclosed technology is directed towards automated configuration enforcement in wireless communication systems, which can be implemented in an audit manager (e.g. an ONAP micro-service) as part of an overall architecture. The audit manager obtains misconfiguration data representing misconfigured configurable parameter data of network elements of a radio access network, and corrective parameter data corresponding to the misconfiguration data. The audit manager issues a reconfiguration action to the network elements, which instructs the network elements to reconfigure their current configurable parameter data based on the corrective parameter data. Following reconfiguration, the audit manager operates to monitor the network elements performance, e.g., to check for performance degradation of a cell site relative to previous performance metrics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Ioannis Broustis, Sarat Puthenpura
  • Patent number: 11620542
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, system and apparatus that enable operations that may include receiving, by a processing system, project data defining a proposed machine learning (ML) project of an entity and storing the project data in a project database with other project data for other projects. The operations may further include extracting extracted features of the proposed project and, based on the extracted features, determining a clustering assignment for the proposed project. Determining the clustering assignment may comprise comparing information about the proposed project including the extracted features with information about the other projects and assigning the proposed project to a cluster including one or more projects having similar bias characteristics as the proposed project. The operations may further include determining a risk of potential bias for the proposed project and, based on the risk of bias, recommending a corrective action to reduce the risk of bias.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Emily Dodwell, Balachander Krishnamurthy, Rajat Malik, Ritwik Mitra
  • Patent number: 11622310
    Abstract: The described technology is generally directed towards a cellular network area optimizer. The area optimizer observes cellular network conditions at multiple radio access network (RAN) nodes within a target area. Based on observed conditions, the area optimizer applies a set of parameter values at the multiple RAN nodes. The set of parameter values enhances the overall throughput, while maintaining or improving connection retainability and accessibility, of the multiple RAN nodes under the observed conditions. The area optimizer learns different sets of parameter values to apply in response to different observed conditions by making parameter value adjustments and observing the effect of the adjustments on overall throughput of the RAN nodes in the target area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Gueyoung Jung, Edward Daniels, Matti Hiltunen, Rittwik Jana, Kaustubh Joshi
  • Patent number: 11622357
    Abstract: Adaptive packet scheduling for interference mitigation is disclosed. Current spectral information can be compared to historical spectral information to determine a likelihood of a future interference event. Based on the furfure interference event, a data frame can be adapted to mitigate the effect of the future interference event on wireless communication. The interference event can be related to an unintentional interference source that can have distinct interference characteristics distinguishing it from an intentional interference source. Comparison can be facilitated by a data store storing historical interference information related to one or more historical interference events.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignees: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P., AT&T MOBILITY II LLC
    Inventors: James Gordon Beattie, Jr., Haywood S. Peitzer, James Hollister
  • Patent number: 11622405
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, connecting a user equipment to a first node of a first network to provide a service requested by the user equipment to the user equipment, obtaining a first measurement associated with the first node and a second measurement associated with a second node, responsive to the obtaining, detecting that the first measurement is less than a first threshold and the second measurement is greater than a second threshold, responsive to the detecting, identifying an application executed by the user equipment in obtaining the service, and responsive to determining that the application requires dual connectivity based on the identifying, commanding the user equipment to establish connectivity with the second node or a third node to provide at least a portion of the service. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Zhi Cui, Hongyan Lei
  • Patent number: 11622418
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving network-related information associated with a first RAN that includes a first RIC, obtaining, from an artificial intelligence (AI) model synchronization system associated with a second RAN, data relating to an AI model deployed by a second RIC of the second RAN, determining, based on the data relating to the AI model and the network-related information associated with the first RAN, that the AI model can be leveraged by the first RAN to improve network performance of the first RAN, performing synchronization with the AI model synchronization system to obtain the AI model, responsive to the determining that the AI model can be leveraged by the first RAN to improve the network performance of the first RAN, and causing the first RIC to deploy the AI model in the first RAN after the performing the synchronization. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Syed Anwar Aftab, Manoop Talasila, Guy Jacobson, John F. Murray, Mazin E. Gilbert
  • Patent number: 11621814
    Abstract: The technologies described herein are generally directed toward link adaption for multistage messages. According to an embodiment, a system can comprise a processor and a memory that can enable operations facilitating performance of operations including determining that a control signal that was transmitted by the first device was not received by a second device, wherein the control signal comprises a first portion employing a first transmission scheme and a second portion employing a second transmission scheme. The operations can further include based on the determining that the control signal was not received by the second device, selecting a third transmission scheme for the second portion of the control signal. Further, the operations can include, based on a mapping of the third transmission scheme to a fourth transmission scheme in a mapping reference, selecting the fourth transmission scheme for the first portion of the control signal, and transmitting the control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventor: Xiaoyi Wang
  • Patent number: 11620575
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses, among other things, may provide for an interactive dynamic mapping engine (iDME) for business intelligence, which may interactively obtain information for user devices from sources and schema unknown to the user devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Pei-En Pamela Hsu, Eshrat Huda, Mukundan Sarukkai
  • Patent number: 11620113
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device, including a processing system including a processor; and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations including receiving user specified metadata for execution tasks associated with a machine learning (ML) model; receiving artifacts specifying program code for implementing the ML model; creating a file system structure for a container to hold the ML model; receiving environment variables for operation of the ML model; and building the container including a model image for the ML model. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Jeffrey B. Saxon, Jeffrey Dix
  • Patent number: 11616673
    Abstract: Concepts and technologies for dynamic cyclic extension (“CE”) for Fast Access to Subscriber Terminals (“G.Fast”) are described. According to one aspect described herein, a system can synchronize a G.Fast modem with the default CE value, measure an upstream signal attenuation of a G.Fast cable in a G.Fast circuit to obtain an upstream signal attenuation value, determine a new CE value based upon the upstream signal attenuation value, and determine if the new CE value is not equal to a default CE value. In response to determining that the new CE value is not equal to the default CE value, the system can update and apply a CE value for the G.Fast cable in the G.Fast circuit to the new CE value. If, however, the new CE value is equal to the default CE value, the system can instead apply the default CE value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Ronald Brost, Rehan Karim
  • Patent number: 11617014
    Abstract: In one example, a method for providing content-aware progress bar includes receiving a command from a user via an input device to present a visual media on a display device, retrieving a progress bar associated with the visual media, wherein the progress bar includes a plurality of sections, and where each section of the plurality of sections corresponds to one scene of a plurality of scenes of the visual media, and wherein the each section visually indicates a type of content contained in the one scene, a location of the one scene in the visual media, and a duration of the one scene, presenting the visual media on the display device, and displaying the progress bar on the display device in a manner that is time-synchronized to the visual media.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Megha Venugopal, Binny Asarikuniyil
  • Patent number: 11616697
    Abstract: Virtual machine server clusters are managed using self-healing and dynamic optimization to achieve closed-loop automation. The technique uses adaptive thresholding to develop actionable quality metrics for benchmarking and anomaly detection. Real-time analytics are used to determine the root cause of KPI violations and to locate impact areas. Self-healing and dynamic optimization rules are able to automatically correct common issues via no-touch automation in which finger-pointing between operations staff is prevalent, resulting in consolidation, flexibility and reduced deployment time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Chen-Yui Yang, David H. Lu, Scott Baker, Anthony M. Srdar, Gabriel Bourge
  • Patent number: 11617156
    Abstract: Various embodiments disclosed that describe systems to facilitate paging an idle subscriber identity module using a connected subscriber identity module operating in a single radio configuration. According to some embodiments, a system can comprise receiving a paging request that is designated for a first device of a communication device, wherein the communication device comprises the first device and a second device; determining whether the second device is in an active state; and in response to the determining that the second device is in the active state, transmitting a message to second device indicating that the paging message was received for the first device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Ralf Bendlin, Arunabha Ghosh, Thomas Novlan, Milap Majmundar, Xiaoyi Wang
  • Patent number: 11616808
    Abstract: Techniques are provided that facilitate responding to cyberattacks using counter intelligence (CI) bot technology. In one embodiment, a first system is disclosed that comprises a processor and a memory. The memory can store executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations including receiving a request from a second system requesting assistance in association with a cyberattack on the second system, wherein the request comprises information indicating a type of the cyberattack. The operations further comprise selecting a counter intelligence bot configured to respond to the type of cyberattack, and directing the counter intelligence bot to respond to the cyberattack, wherein the directing comprises enabling the counter intelligence bot to respond to the cyberattack by establishing a gateway with the second system and employing the gateway to intercept and respond to traffic associated with the cyberattack on behalf of the second system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventor: Yeeling Lam
  • Patent number: 11616713
    Abstract: A stream processing system in a first zone of a telecommunication network may obtain at least one policy for processing trace data of virtual network functions (VNFs) in the first zone, and obtain the trace data of the VNFs from a data distribution platform of the telecommunication network, where the trace data is published in accordance with a topic to the data distribution platform by the VNFs, and where the stream processing system comprises a subscriber to the topic. The first stream processing system may additionally forward at least a first portion of the trace data to a second stream processing system of the telecommunication network in accordance with the at least one policy, where the first portion comprises less than all of the trace data, and where the second stream processing system is for a region of the telecommunication network that includes the first zone and a second zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Gagan Raj Gupta, Pradeep Kunjunny
  • Patent number: 11616823
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, embodiments that comprise obtaining a data budget associated with a communication session for streaming video content over a communication network from a video content server, determining a first portion of the data budget that is associated with a first segment of the video content, and obtaining quality information associated with the video content from the video content server over the communication network. Further embodiments can include identifying a first group of tracks for the first segment, and determining a first target quality for the first segment based on the first portion of the data budget and the quality information. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., The University of Connecticut
    Inventors: Subhabrata Sen, Bing Wang, Yanyuan Qin
  • Patent number: 11617108
    Abstract: Facilitating a transmission power dependent resource reservation protocol in advanced networks (e.g., 5G, 6G, and beyond) is provided herein. Operations of a method can comprise defining, by a system comprising a memory and a processor, a resource reservation procedure that associates respective amounts of reserved resources available for the mobile device based on a transmission power level of the mobile device. The method also can comprise selecting, by the system, an amount of reserved resources from the respective amounts of reserved resources available based on the transmission power level of the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventor: Xiaoyi Wang
  • Patent number: 11617186
    Abstract: Various embodiments disclosed herein provide for data traffic steering based on quality of service. According to some embodiments, a system can comprise receiving data packets associated with a quality of service value, wherein the data packets are stored in a buffer and transmitted utilizing a first link, determining whether a condition that indicates a modification to a data routing schedule is satisfied and whether a second link is available, and in response to the determining indicating that the condition is satisfied and that the second link is available, performing the modification of the data routing schedule comprising utilizing the second link and the first link to transmit the data packets associated with the quality of service value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Yupeng Jia, Wenge Chen
  • Patent number: 11615425
    Abstract: A cloud services composition system allows customers to interactively create service constructs from network function virtualization resources. The network function virtualization primitives are modeled using a standard modeling language. An expert system suggests network function virtualization resources for use in the service construct, based on an expert system learning algorithm. The customer uses a graphical user interface to interconnect the resources and create the service construct. The process may involve collaboration with the network provider. The resulting construct is validated for use in a communications network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Rittwik Jana, Thomas Kirk, Syed Anwar Aftab, John F. Murray, Mazin E. Gilbert, Shu Shi, Serban Jora, Avi Zahavi