AT&T Patents

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  • Patent number: 11659216
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a processing system of a communication node routing data packets for a first streaming session between a viewer node of a plurality of viewer nodes and a content streaming server through the communication node without interrupting delivery of content data to the viewer node, establishing a second streaming session with the content streaming server to receive the content data, creating a first and second replacement connections by imitating a connections with the content streaming server and the viewer node, receiving a control packet over the second streaming session from the content streaming server, and splitting the first streaming session responsive to receiving the control packet. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Shu Shi, Rittwik Jana, Bo Yan
  • Patent number: 11657705
    Abstract: Concepts and technologies directed to an integrated telecommunications roadside unit for supporting vehicle-to-everything (“V2X”) communications are disclosed herein. Embodiments of an integrated telecommunications roadside unit can include a processor and a memory that store computer-executable instructions that configure a processor to perform operations. The operations can include intercepting a vehicle-to-vehicle communication that is provided from a first vehicle to a second vehicle. The vehicle-to-vehicle communication can be transmitted using a direct transmission mode. The operations can further include encapsulating the vehicle-to-vehicle communication in a user plane package. The operations can also include routing the user plane package to a destination network access node, where the destination network access node is outside of a direct communication range corresponding to the first vehicle and the second vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignees: AT&T Mobility II LLC, AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.
    Inventors: Zachery Carter, Roger Mahler, Erie Lai Har Lau, Sangar Dowlatkhah
  • Patent number: 11658821
    Abstract: When a network element attempts to establish a session with another network element, a security verification agent may be activated in one or both network elements. The security verification agents, such as front-end processors, virtual network functions, or other software agents, may reside in each of the network elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventor: Arturo Maria
  • Patent number: 11658422
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include a generator that facilitates generation of an electromagnetic wave, a core, and a waveguide that facilitates guiding the electromagnetic wave towards the core to induce a second electromagnetic wave that propagates along the core. The core and/or the waveguide can be configured to reduce radiation loss of the second electromagnetic wave, propagation loss of the second electromagnetic wave, or a combination thereof. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Paul Shala Henry, Thomas M. Willis, III, Robert Bennett, Farhad Barzegar, Irwin Gerszberg, Donald J. Barnickel
  • Patent number: 11658762
    Abstract: The gains with non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) for uplink data transmissions can be high when chosen codes are orthogonal. However, when codes are non-orthogonal, the gains can be low. NOMA can be used when there is more than one mobile device using the same resources. Since orthogonal codes cannot be possible for every length, codes which have low cross-correlation properties can be used. However, when there are a large number of mobile devices using the same resources, the cross-correlation between the codes can cause interference to the mobile devices. Reducing the gains of a NOMA system can reduce the overall throughput. Thus, transmitting data on the same resources in a NOMA can occur in spite of the interference to the UEs transmitting data on the same resources. Therefore, a non-orthogonal multiple access design for a 5G network can mitigate interference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: SaiRamesh Nammi, Arunabha Ghosh, Saeed Ghassemzadeh
  • Patent number: 11659492
    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: October 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Technical Services Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Vivanco, Slawomir Stawiarski, David Ross Beppler
  • Patent number: 11659232
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device that includes a processing system including a processor and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations, where the operations include receiving a request from a viewer of a content stream to pause the content stream, displaying a pause screen, requesting an advertisement to display during the pause of the content stream, retrieving content for the advertisement, and displaying the advertisement as an overlay on the pause screen. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Interwise Ltd.
    Inventors: Erez A. Korn, Hans Fischmann, Matthew Van Houten, Rinat Zilberstein, Yehuda Volk, Yair Gil, Dror Yashar
  • Patent number: 11659434
    Abstract: The described technology is generally directed towards a transport protocol for latency sensitive applications. The disclosed transport protocol is “semi-reliable” in that it allows for specification of an importance of data being transmitted, thereby allowing important data to be sent reliably, while other data can be dropped if necessary, e.g., under bad network conditions. A deadline can be specified for such other data, and if the other data cannot be sent prior to the deadline, it can be dropped. Furthermore, the disclosed transport protocol can allow for early discovery of network jitter. A client device can send regular acknowledgments which identify most recently received data packets as well as a number of “heartbeat transmissions” received at the client device. A server device can use the acknowledgments to discover and respond to jitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Shu Shi, Rittwik Jana, Bo Han, Bo Chen
  • Patent number: 11658697
    Abstract: Embodiments for port reconfiguration for passive intermodulation interference mitigation are presented herein. A base station device comprises a signal processing component comprising a passive intermodulation interference component and an antenna configuration component. The passive intermodulation interference component determines passive intermodulation interference corresponding to uplink signals that have been received, via a configurable cellular antenna array of the base station device, from respective wireless devices of a group of wireless devices that have been communicatively coupled to the base station device. The antenna configuration component selects a defined configuration of a group of cellular antenna ports of the configurable cellular antenna array to facilitate a reduction of the passive intermodulation interference corresponding to the uplink signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignees: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P., AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Ernest Tsui, Michael Taylor, Weihua Ye, Young Suh, Paul Maxwell, Guanying Ru, James Hollister
  • Publication number: 20230156491
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining a first report comprising first data, obtaining a second report comprising second data, analyzing at least the first data and the second data to identify characteristics of an environment where a communication device is located, based at least in part on the characteristics, determining whether dual connectivity is appropriate for providing a communication service to the communication device, resulting in a determination of dual connectivity, and selectively enabling or disabling dual connectivity in respect of the communication device based on the determination of dual connectivity. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Zhi Cui, Hongyan Lei
  • Publication number: 20230153873
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining first information indicative of a first change to a first aspect of a user account; applying some or all of the first information to a first model to determine a first score associated with the first change; aggregating the first score with one or more first prior scores associated with one or more prior changes to the first aspect of the user account, resulting in a first aggregate score; obtaining second information indicative of a second change to a second aspect of the user account; applying some or all of the second information to a second model, that is different from the first model, to determine a second score associated with the second change; aggregating the second score with one or more second prior scores associated with one or more prior changes to the second aspect of the user account, resulting in a second aggregate score; and storing the first aggregate score and the second aggregate score in a database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Qiuying Jiang, Ana Armenta, Prince Paulraj, Jean Luo
  • Publication number: 20230153859
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, embodiments for detecting a navigation application operating on a first communication device, and identifying a location of the first communication device. Further embodiments can include obtaining a first advertisement and a second advertisement according to the location of the first communication device as well as determining a first priority associated with the first advertisement and a second priority associated with the second advertisement. Additional embodiments can include determining the first priority is higher than the second priority resulting in a determination to present the first advertisement prior to the second advertisement, and providing the first advertisement, the second advertisement, and the determination to the first communication device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2023
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Alexander MacDougall, Anna Lidzba, Nigel Bradley, James Carlton Bedingfield, SR., Robert Koch, Ari Craine
  • Publication number: 20230156281
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, identifying content consumption data associated with media content consumption at a customer device, and generating a content selection recommendation for the customer device. Some embodiments can include determining a habit-based content selection vector for the customer device. Various embodiments can include determining the habit-based content selection vector based on a habit profile for the customer device. Some embodiments can include adjusting a content selection vector for the customer device based on the habit-based content selection vector for the customer device. Various embodiments can include generating the content selection recommendation for the customer device based on the adjusted content selection vector. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2023
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Raif Rustamov, Ann Eileen Skudlark, Christopher Volinsky, Appavu Siva Prakasam
  • Publication number: 20230153399
    Abstract: A method for transferring digital multimedia rights, the method including but not limited to requesting permission from the destination end user to transfer the digital multimedia rights to the destination end user device; and if the permission is received from the destination end user, canceling the source set of digital multimedia rights associated with the source end user and transferring the source set of digital multimedia rights associated with the source end user to the destination end user device. A system and computer program product are disclosed for performing the method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2023
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Randolph Wohlert, Paul Van Vleck
  • Publication number: 20230155991
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, processing data resulting from an execution of a plurality of different applications to identify at least one notification that is to be provided to a user of a client device, identifying criteria associated with the user, the criteria including a role of the user within an organization and a preference of the user, determining a characteristic associated with the at least one notification based on the identifying of the criteria, and providing the at least one notification having the characteristic to the client device. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2021
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Applicants: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.
    Inventors: Lars Benjamin Johnson, Umayal Roja Swarnam
  • Publication number: 20230154466
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method in which a processing system generates a list of communications desired by a user, and determines an attentiveness level of the user with respect to equipment of the user currently in use, to determine whether the user is available to participate in a desired communication. The method also includes accessing equipment of a target party of the communication to determine an attentiveness level of the target party with respect to equipment of the target party, to determine whether the target party is available to participate in the communication. The method also includes generating a notice at the equipment of the user that the target party is available; and initiating the communication between the equipment of the user and the equipment of the target party. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2023
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Ari Craine, Robert Koch, Alexander MacDougall, Anna Lidzba, Nigel Bradley, James Carlton Bedingfield, SR.
  • Publication number: 20230155883
    Abstract: Methods, systems and computer readable media for isolating network faults are provided. A data driven automation services module is provided including a data connector, a data driven policy designer and a data driven self-service engine. The data connector collects data from the plurality of network data sources and integrates the data into shared communities for insight development. The data driven policy designer creates and stores templates and develops policies to implement service tasks to identify and isolate network problems. The data driven self-service engine integrates the network and its orchestration capabilities with big data technology to develop a plurality of microservices to perform service tasks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2023
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Zhiqiang Qian, Michael Zinnikas
  • Publication number: 20230156253
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving, from a streaming application, a listing of media content items provided by the streaming application to a first device of a first user, determining a priority set of the media content items of the listing of media content items according to relative demand profiles of a plurality of media content items, for each priority media content item of the priority set of the media content items, providing the priority media content item to an edge server of a set of edge servers accessible to the first device, updating edge server location information associated with the priority media content item, and providing the edge server location information to the streaming application. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2023
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventor: Binny Asarikuniyil
  • Publication number: 20230156045
    Abstract: A streaming orchestrator may monitor the quality of video being delivered to a home or other building. If the streaming orchestrator determines that additional performance is needed, it may create an additional User Plane Gateway in the virtual “white box” environment residing in the customer premises. The streaming orchestrator may instruct gNodeBs to continue to route traffic back to the central core functions or to route traffic to local user plane gateways which transmit video streams to the Internet via localized high-speed connections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2023
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventor: Arturo Maria
  • Publication number: 20230156603
    Abstract: A method includes determining a quality of service class identifier (QCI) level for an application running on a user device, selecting a connected mode discontinuous reception (CDRX) profile based on the QCI level, and transmitting the CDRX profile to the user device to be used when running the application. The QCI level may be indicative of delay sensitivity of the application and the CDRX profile may be selected based on the delay sensitivity of the application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2023
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Yupeng Jia, Yizhe Zhang, John Bulger, Scott Prather
  • Publication number: 20230156764
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, selecting a first network element for providing a first portion of a communication service to a communication device in an uplink direction based on first radio frequency conditions detected by the communication device, and selecting a second network element for providing the first portion of the communication service to the communication device in a downlink direction based on the first radio frequency conditions detected by the communication device, where the second network element is different from the first network element. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Zhi Cui, Hongyan Lei
  • Publication number: 20230155923
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device having 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 selecting a first set of one or more nodes in a packet switched network to establish a primary route for data packets to pass from a source to a destination; selecting a second set of one or more nodes in the packet switched network to establish a second route for the data packets to pass from the source to the destination in the packet switched network, wherein each node in the second set of one or more nodes is different from every node in the first set of one or more nodes; and monitoring the data packets received from the packet switched network via the primary route and via the second route. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Joseph Soryal, Howard Lang
  • Publication number: 20230152880
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving, over a network, at an extended reality (XR) system, a movement command corresponding to a commanded movement, the commanded movement by a second user at a remote XR system to contact a first user at the XR system, determining if the commanded movement should proceed to contact the user, and responsive to a determination that the commanded movement should not contact the first user, suspending completion of the movement command at the XR system.. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventor: Joseph Soryal
  • Publication number: 20230156092
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure include, for example, selecting a first edge device of a first network to provide a part of a service to a communication device, establishing a first session between the first edge device and a device of a second network for a duration of the service, wherein the first session is associated with a first portion of an address, establishing a second session between the first edge device and the communication device in accordance with an access technology to facilitate a transfer of first data associated with the first part of the service to the communication device, wherein the second session is associated with a second portion of the address, and wherein the second portion of the address identifies the access technology, and transferring the first data to the communication device in accordance with the address, wherein the address comprises a third portion that identifies the communication device. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2023
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Zhi Cui, Sangar Dowlatkhah
  • Patent number: 11652695
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses may determine a connection topology for a service and send an alert in which the alert includes a service connection topology that includes a plurality of port assignments for each equipment of the connection topology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Subhash Kapoor, Stanimir Bonev
  • Patent number: 11653307
    Abstract: Systems and methods may provide for deactivating the Idle mode discontinuous reception (iDRX) for services that require latency that is less than the conventional paging channel values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Darwin Parra, Robert Holden, Stephen Hardin, Jason Sikes, Tracey Green
  • Patent number: 11651498
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device that has 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 downsampling a full point cloud to obtain a downsampled point cloud, wherein the downsampling reduces a data size of the full point cloud; and using a machine-learning model to assign labels for segmentation and object identification to points in the downsampled point cloud, wherein the machine-learning model is trained on the full point cloud. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Bo Han, Cheuk Yiu Ip, Eric Zavesky, Huanle Zhang
  • Patent number: 11653401
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining data relating to a user equipment communicatively coupled to a first network node, the data including information regarding a data buffer associated with the user equipment, obtaining node information relating to a second network node, the node information identifying available network resources of the second network node and a coverage range of the second network node, determining, based on the information regarding the data buffer, that a status of the data buffer satisfies a condition, determining that the first network node has insufficient network resources to satisfy a network resource demand of the user equipment based on the determining that the status of the data buffer satisfies the condition, and selectively activating the second network node, based on the available network resources of the second network node and the coverage range of the second network node. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 16, 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: 11653267
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a process or apparatus for receiving, by a processing system including a processor, cell traffic reports for cells of a radio communication network, performing a reconfiguration analysis to identify reconfiguration information to reconfigure the radio communication network according to changing network conditions, and communicating the reconfiguration information defining a new cell configuration for the cells of the radio communication network and communicating information defining a new reconfiguration time for the cells to substantially synchronously switch to communicating according to the reconfiguration information. The receiving the cell traffic reports, the performing the reconfiguration analysis and the communicating the reconfiguration information occur in substantially real time. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Yu Zhou, Varun Gupta, Rittwik Jana, John Murray
  • Patent number: 11652297
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a system having a plurality of transmitters for launching, according to a signal, instances of first electromagnetic waves having different phases to induce propagation of a second electromagnetic wave at an interface of a transmission medium, the second electromagnetic wave having a non-fundamental wave mode and a non-optical operating frequency, wherein the plurality of transmitters has a corresponding plurality of antennas. A reflective plate is spaced a distance behind the plurality of antennas relative to a direction of the propagation of the second electromagnetic wave. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Paul Shala Henry, Robert Bennett, Farhad Barzegar, Irwin Gerszberg, Donald J. Barnickel, Thomas M. Willis, III
  • Patent number: 11652787
    Abstract: The disclosed technology is directed towards locating and counting unused nodes, such as free Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) address blocks. A hierarchical structure of nodes is created from an origin block to a specified lower level, and the hierarchical structure is processed using mapping and eliminating to locate free nodes. A first node group comprises node(s) in use, a second node group identifies intermediate subnets between the first node of the first node group and the specified origin block, and a third node group identifies any subnets hierarchically below node(s) in use. Unused (free) node count information is obtained based on nodes below the origin block that are not in the first node group, the second node group, or the third node group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Xiaowen Mang, Anestis Karasaridis
  • Patent number: 11652784
    Abstract: An apparatus having an agent that includes a processor and a memory coupled with the processor and communicates with at least one of a fault, configuration, accounting, performance, security module. The processor effectuates operations including determining that a service is operating properly. The processor further effectuates operations including if the service is operating properly and the service is disabled, enabling the service. The processor further effectuates operations including if the service is not operating properly, generating an alarm and if the service is enabled, disabling the service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Mehrad Yasrebi, James Jackson
  • Patent number: 11653234
    Abstract: Cells of a network can be clustered based on signaling behavior, and abnormal signaling conditions against cells can be detected and mitigated. A security management component (SMC) can determine a neural network (NN) of NNs that can be representative of the cell network based on analysis of first signal measurement data associated with the cells. The NN can cluster respective cells into respective clusters based on analysis of second signal measurement data associated with the cells. The NN can determine whether an abnormal signaling condition associated with a cell is occurring based on analysis of third signal measurement data associated with the cells, information relating to the cluster to which the cell is assigned, and a defined network security criterion. SMC can perform feature reforming on the first, second, and/or third signal measurement data to reduce dimensionality of such data to facilitate processing by the NN.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Rensheng Zhang, Yaron Koral, Arun Jotshi
  • Patent number: 11653043
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for the presentation and marking of media modules. In different aspects, the systems and methods may allow a user to present and consume a media module, particularly a media module containing data that is typically presented in a serial manner such as audio, visual, or video media, and to create a marked media module for quickly and easily returning to a marked point of interest in the media module at a later time or on a different device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventor: Steven N. Tischer
  • Patent number: 11653342
    Abstract: The described technology is generally directed towards a frequency-aware cellular communication network. A mobile device, or a radio access network (RAN) device at a base station in communication with the mobile device, can proactively notify a core network device regarding changes of a frequency band used for communications between the mobile device and the base station. The core network can use received notifications to adjust service provided to the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Yupeng Jia, Jiansong Wang, Hongyan Lei, Farooq Bari
  • Patent number: 11652569
    Abstract: Various embodiments disclosed herein provide for facilitating scheduling of uplink data using demodulation reference signal and scheduled resources. According an embodiment, a system can comprise configuring a network device with a periodic rate of specified sounding reference signals with a periodicity using radio resource control signaling. The system can further facilitate estimating channel state information associated with a channel via which the network device communicates. The system can further facilitate transmitting an uplink grant with uplink transmission parameters to set up a physical uplink shared channel, wherein the uplink transmission parameters are determined based on the channel state information. The system can further facilitate estimating scheduling parameters based on a first estimation information associated with the physical uplink shared channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: SaiRamesh Nammi, Arunabha Ghosh
  • Patent number: 11652900
    Abstract: Facilitating separation of intended and non-intended browsing traffic in browsing history advanced networks (e.g., 4G, 5G, and beyond) is provided herein. Operations of a system can comprise determining respective contradiction values for second-level domains of a group of second-level domains in observed browsing history traffic. The operations can also comprise separating intended network traffic from non-intended network traffic based on the respective contradiction values. The respective contradiction values can indicate levels of inconsistency between the observed browsing history traffic and a determined popularity ranking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Zhengyi Zhou, Christopher Volinsky
  • Patent number: 11653385
    Abstract: Various embodiments disclosed herein provide for a closed loop Listen Before Talk (LBT) which is a coexistence mechanism used by wireless technologies such as Wi-Fi, to access unlicensed shared spectrum, such as the ISM UNII bands (5 GHz). The embodiments disclosed herein enable a base station to coordinate the LBT process at both the base station and a receiver in order to avoid hidden node interference where the interfering nodes are outside the sensing range of the transmitting node. The base station device can send a LBT trigger to the receiver to synchronize the clear channel assessments that are performed at each device to determine if there is any activity on the channel. The receiving device can send back a report to the base station device, and if no activity on the channel is detected, the base station device can schedule a transmission on the channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Thomas Novlan, Arunabha Ghosh, Abdulrauf Hafeez
  • Patent number: 11653376
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes identifying, by a network access point, a plurality of channels within a spectrum block and determining, by the network access point, to allocate at least one channel of the plurality of channels to a device based on requirements of the device. The method further includes allocating, by the network access point, the at least one channel to the device. The at least one channel is exclusively for use between the network access point and the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Barrett Kreiner, Ryan Schaub
  • Patent number: 11653229
    Abstract: Excessive signaling by devices against a radio access network (RAN) can be detected and mitigated. A security management component (SMC) can determine whether a total number of control signals received by a base station from devices satisfies a threshold total number of control signals indicative of excessive signaling. If so, SMC can identify a device associated with the base station based on analyzing communication conditions associated with the device. SMC can determine whether to classify the device as an excessive signaling device based on whether the number of control signals received from the device by the base station satisfies a threshold number of control signals indicative of excessive signaling. If so, SMC can determine the device is an excessive signaling device. In response, SMC can perform or facilitate performing a mitigation action to mitigate excessive signaling or can generate statistics relating to the excessive signaling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventor: Yaron Koral
  • Patent number: 11652756
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a network API service that receives network event data and provides performance hints to a resource manager that manages application containers at edge cloud locations. Network event data may be received from access networks, core networks, nodes within access networks or core networks, or the like. Performance hints may allow booting of application containers at edge cloud locations. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Abhigyan Sharma Abhigyan, Aleksandr Zelezniak, Kaustubh Joshi
  • Patent number: 11651546
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, predicting a field of view of a viewer to obtain a predicted field of view based on information about the viewer and a scoring of a point of interest in media content. A line of sight is obtained between the viewer and a presentation of the media content to obtain a viewer line of sight, and the scoring of the point of interest in the media content is updated to obtain an updated scoring based on the viewer line of sight, the predicted field of view being updated according to the updated scoring. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Tan Xu, Eric Zavesky, Behzad Shahraray, David Crawford Gibbon
  • Patent number: 11653212
    Abstract: The described technology is generally directed towards network slice pre-configuration for cellular communication systems, including 5G and subsequent generation cellular communication systems. Network equipment can be preconfigured to identify whether a network slice identifier included in a network communication belongs to a group of network slice identifiers. If so, the network equipment can process the network communication either according to a network slice rule that corresponds specifically to the network slice identifier, or according to a default group network slice rule for the group to which the network slice identifier belongs. Different groups of network slice identifiers can be associated with different sets of group network slice rules which can be arranged to reduce the work of setting up network slice identifiers in various network slicing scenarios.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventor: Feza Buyukdura
  • Patent number: 11653373
    Abstract: Facilitating fast multi-beam listen before talk in advanced networks (e.g., 4G, 5G, 6G, and beyond) is provided herein. Operations of a device can comprise determining a first inactivity in a first beam based on a first performance of a first listen before talk procedure in the first beam and, based on determining the first inactivity, analyzing a presence of an activity in a second beam based on a second performance of a second listen before talk procedure in the second beam. Further, the operations can comprise, based on determining a lack of the presence of the activity in the second beam, transmitting a signal via the second beam. In an example, analyzing the presence of the activity in the second beam can be performed prior to completion of the determining the first inactivity in the first beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Abdulrauf Hafeez, Thomas Novlan
  • Patent number: 11653185
    Abstract: Systems and processes that incorporate teachings of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving a request for a streaming video application service from a mobile device and, responsive to determining a relationship between a service provider of a wireless access point and a service provider of a cellular network providing the streaming video application service via the cellular services. Responsive to determining that the wireless access point is in a communication range of the mobile device based on a proximity of the wireless access point to the mobile device, a communication session is initiated between the mobile device and the wireless access point. Delivery of the streaming video application service to the mobile device is switched from over the cellular network to over the wireless access point. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Venson Shaw, Jin He
  • Patent number: 11652891
    Abstract: An architecture for dynamically selecting and routing traffic from Internet of things (IoT) devices and sensors to the nearest or most proximate IoT hub device. A method can comprise receiving a connection request from a user device; retrieving address data representing a network device of a group of network devices; and sending the address data to the user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T MOBILITY II LLC
    Inventors: Basavaraj Patil, Senthil Nathan Ramakrishnan
  • Patent number: 11652538
    Abstract: An architecture to reduce or eliminate uplink interference induced by aerial user equipment (UE) when aerial UE is introduced into groups of terrestrial based UE operating in terrestrial fourth generation (4G) long term evolution (LTE), fifth generation (5G) networks. A method can comprise determining a number of terrestrial based user equipment impacted by uplink interference caused by uplink transmissions associated with aerial user equipment, wherein the aerial user equipment and the terrestrial based user equipment are controlled by serving cell equipment; determining an enclosed area that bounds the number of terrestrial based user equipment; and initiating a carrier aggregation process on the aerial user equipment, wherein the carrier aggregation divides the uplink transmissions associated with the aerial user equipment over a group of serving cell equipment included in the enclosed area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignees: AT&T TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY, INC., AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Daniel Vivanco, David Ross Beppler, Slawomir Stawiarski
  • Patent number: 11653414
    Abstract: A mobile edge computing (MEC) service area can utilized packet header source and/or destination internet protocol data and session initiation protocol source and/or destination internet protocol data to map internet protocol addresses associated with mobile devices. The MEC can comprise a translation component that translates service provider internet protocol addresses such that they are perceived as enterprise premises internet protocol addresses. Conversely, the translation component can translate enterprise premises internet protocol addresses such that they are perceived as service provider internet protocol addresses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Kim Haislip, Joaquin Aguirre, James Amster, Shiven Kumar, Shiv Kumar, Christina Cacioppo
  • Patent number: 11651322
    Abstract: Wireless presence is used as a theft prevention mechanism for packages. When a package is shipped, the package includes a wireless security device. Before the package is delivered to its final destination shipping address, the wireless security device is activated and programmed with a security credential. The security credential, though, is based on information obtained during an initial purchase. The wireless security device may thus only be deactivated by a recipient participating in the initial purchase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T Mobility II, LLC
    Inventors: Mario Kosseifi, Joseph Thomas
  • Patent number: 11653258
    Abstract: A system that can detect a congested network node device that is overloaded due to number of user equipment (UE) devices connected to the network node device being determined to have exceeded a connection threshold; determine a second network node device that is available to establish connections with at least some of the UEs connected to the congested network node device; identify a third network node device that is transferring UE devices to the congested network node device to create additional connections; and transmit a cell individual offset (CIO) parameter and cell hysteresis offsets to the third network node device to reduce transferring UE devices to the congested network node device, and another CIO parameter and cell hysteresis offsets to the second network node device to increase establishment of the UE connection from the congested network node device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignees: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P., AT&T MOBILITY II LLC
    Inventors: Slawomir Stawiarski, Mochamad Mirza, Arthur Brisebois, Vladimir Gusavac