Patents by Inventor Lyle W. Paczkowski
Lyle W. Paczkowski has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20240146813Abstract: A method of establishing an application layer connection between a user equipment (UE) and an application executing on an edge computing node via a communication network. The method comprises receiving an application service availability message by the UE that identifies a plurality of networks that provide access to an identified application executing on an edge computing node within the network; for each network identified in the application service availability message, receiving by the UE an application service figure-of-merit determined by that network associated with a prospective application layer connection between the UE and an edge computing node executing the identified application that is located in that network; based on evaluating the figure-of-merit associated with each network establishing an application layer connection by the UE via the selected network to the application executing on the edge computing node in the selected network.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2024Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventors: Marouane Balmakhtar, Galip Murat Karabulut, Laurent A. Laporte, Lyle W. Paczkowski
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Publication number: 20240127022Abstract: A method of transmitting a first tier of information by a radio frequency identity (RFID) chip when hailed in a first frequency band and transmitting a second tier of information by the RFID chip when hailed in a second frequency band. The method comprises receiving a first hailing radio signal in a first frequency band by an application executing on a processor of an RFID chip, in response to receiving the first radio signal, transmitting a first tier of information stored in the RFID chip in the first frequency band by the application, receiving a second hailing radio signal in a second frequency band by the application, and, in response to receiving the second radio signal, transmitting a second tier of information stored in the RFID chip in the second frequency band by the application.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventors: Ronald R. Marquardt, Lyle W. Paczkowski
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Publication number: 20240129307Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide for a method implemented by a smart device executing an artificial intelligence electronic assistant application. In at least some examples, the method includes receiving a request from an appliance in a same local network as the smart device, the request to transfer first data from the appliance to a first device located outside the local network. The method also includes facilitating the transfer of the first data from the appliance to the first device based at least in part on security policies of the smart device and content of the first data.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventors: Christopher Callender, Brian Kuntz, Lyle W. Paczkowski, Michael D. Svoren, JR.
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Publication number: 20240121746Abstract: A method of communicating over a plurality of network slices concurrently. The method comprises building a distributed ledger by a network slice registrar function (NSRF) application executing on a computer, where the distributed ledger records an association between a first network slice allocated to a user equipment (UE) and a second network slice allocated to the UE, providing information about the association of the UE to the first network slice and the second network slice by the NSRF application to a network slice selector function (NSSF), establishing a first communication link between the UE and a first call end point via the first network slice by a first user plane function (UPF) and establishing a second communication link between the UE and a second call end point via the second network slice by a second UPF based on the information provided by the NSRF application to the NSSF.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Inventor: Lyle W. Paczkowski
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Patent number: 11953998Abstract: A method of restoring an image of a computer, including identifying, by a backup application executing on the computer, artifacts of the computer to back up, creating a mirror image of a hard drive of the computer, wherein the mirror image comprises the artifacts, establishing a local environment within the computer, communicating with a backup server, by the backup application, using the local environment in the computer, backing up the mirror image, by the backup application, to the backup server using the local environment, updating the mirror image, by the backup application, in the backup server in response to a change in the computer, constructing the local environment on the computer in response to an event, loading a program from the local environment, and restoring the computer, by the backup application, from the mirror image in the backup server based on the artifacts, the program, and the restore process.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2020Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: T-MOBILE INNOVATIONS LLCInventors: Tracy L. Nelson, Lyle W. Paczkowski, William M. Parsel
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Publication number: 20240106884Abstract: A method comprising distributing rendering of media content across an end user device and a rendering device located at a single premise based on instruction sets carried in a ledger associated of the media or based on distributed applications respectively stored at the end user device and rendering device. The method further comprises integrating, by the end user device, rendered content received from the rendering device with data obtain from performing processing and rendering operations at the end user device to obtain a final render of the media content, and displaying, on a display of the end user device, the final render of the media content.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: Lyle W. Paczkowski, George Jason Schnellbacher
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Publication number: 20240104817Abstract: A method for partitioning media content across different network slices in a network is comprises receiving, by a device from a server via a first network slice, a first ledger and a first partition of objects. The first ledger comprises data describing the first partition of objects and parameters for rendering the first partition of objects, and the first network slice is a first logical portion of the network associated with network elements configured to forward traffic according to a first quality of service network performance criteria. The method further comprises rendering, by a rendering application of the device, the first partition of objects based on the first ledger.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2022Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: Lyle W. Paczkowski, George Jason Schnellbacher
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Publication number: 20240094764Abstract: Synchronization of precision timing signals maintained by multiple communication networks is described. A precision timing signal may be generated based on the change in state of a plurality of processors. Synchronization of the precision timing signals may be facilitated by a computing device monitoring at least two communication networks. The computing device may generate time offsets that are derived from the precision timing signals associated with each communication network. The time offsets may be communicated by the computing devices to remote devices communicatively coupled to the computing device via a first communication network.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Lyle W. PACZKOWSKI, Peter Paul DAWSON, Waiter F. RAUSCH
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Patent number: 11930462Abstract: Precision digital chronography based on detected changes in state of a processor is described. The changes in state may be detected by another processor and an averaged time interval generated. A signal corresponding to the averaged time interval may be communicated to a distributed database and propagated to remote systems. Devices associated with the remote systems may adjust or set a device clock in accordance with the averaged time interval.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2023Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: T-MOBILE INNOVATIONS LLCInventors: Lyle W. Paczkowski, Peter P. Dawson, Ronald Richard Marquardt, Walter F. Rausch
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Patent number: 11909827Abstract: A method of establishing an application layer connection between a user equipment (UE) and an application executing on an edge computing node via a communication network. The method comprises receiving an application service availability message by the UE that identifies a plurality of networks that provide access to an identified application executing on an edge computing node within the network; for each network identified in the application service availability message, receiving by the UE an application service figure-of-merit determined by that network associated with a prospective application layer connection between the UE and an edge computing node executing the identified application that is located in that network; based on evaluating the figure-of-merit associated with each network establishing an application layer connection by the UE via the selected network to the application executing on the edge computing node in the selected network.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2023Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: T-Mobile Innovations LLCInventors: Marouane Balmakhtar, Galip Murat Karabulut, Laurent A. Laporte, Lyle W. Paczkowski
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Patent number: 11902788Abstract: A method for implementing a slice security zone (SSZ) in a 5G network. The method comprises storing by an SSZ function executing on a first network server an SSZ security profile of the SSZ in a secure storage function, receiving by the SSZ function from a slice management function a slice registration request comprising information relating to a slice security profile of a slice managed by the slice management function, if the slice security profile complies with the SSZ security profile, storing by the SSZ function a slice registration association between the slice and the SSZ in the secure storage function, and sending by the SSZ function to the slice management function a slice registration response comprising information relating to whether the slice was registered in the SSZ.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2021Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: T-Mobile Innovations LLCInventors: Marouane Balmakhtar, Lyle W. Paczkowski
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Patent number: 11899628Abstract: A method of performing a virtual network function. The method comprises forking a user plane process on a computer by a virtual network function process that executes on the computer, forking a control plane process on the computer by the virtual network function process, adding blocks to a user plane blockchain by the user plane process that record user plane events, adding blocks to a control plane blockchain by the control plane process that record control plane events, creating a first package of information by the user plane process based on the user plane blockchain, self-terminating by the user plane process while passing the first package of information to the virtual network function process, creating a second package of information by the control plane process based on the control plane blockchain, self-terminating by the control plane process while passing the second package of information to the virtual network function process.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2022Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: T-Mobile Innovations LLCInventors: Marouane Balmakhtar, Lyle W. Paczkowski
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Patent number: 11900198Abstract: A method of transmitting a first tier of information by a radio frequency identity (RFID) chip when hailed in a first frequency band and transmitting a second tier of information by the RFID chip when hailed in a second frequency band. The method comprises receiving a first hailing radio signal in a first frequency band by an application executing on a processor of an RFID chip, in response to receiving the first radio signal, transmitting a first tier of information stored in the RFID chip in the first frequency band by the application, receiving a second hailing radio signal in a second frequency band by the application, and, in response to receiving the second radio signal, transmitting a second tier of information stored in the RFID chip in the second frequency band by the application.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2020Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: T-MOBILE INNOVATIONS LLCInventors: Ronald R. Marquardt, Lyle W. Paczkowski
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Patent number: 11892984Abstract: A method for creating a link between hyperledger blocks by a block link server. The method comprises receiving by a block link server executing on a computer system a first link creation message from a first network element, the first link creation message comprising first block information comprising a first hyperledger identifier and a first block identifier, both associated with a first hyperledger, receiving by the block link server a second link creation message, comprising second block information comprising a second hyperledger identifier and a second block identifier, both associated with a second hyperledger, storing by the block link server a link data structure comprising the first block information and the second block information, and sending by the block link server a link identifier of the link data structure to the first network element.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2022Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: T-Mobile Innovations LLCInventors: Lyle T. Bertz, Ronald R. Marquardt, Lyle W. Paczkowski
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Patent number: 11895497Abstract: A method of communicating using a wireless gateway. The method comprises receiving a first message in a first radio spectrum band by a first radio transceiver of a wireless gateway, determining by a first processor of the wireless gateway that the first message is a trusted message transmitted by a first source device, transmitting the first message by the first radio transceiver in the first radio spectrum, receiving a second message in a second radio spectrum band by a second radio transceiver of the wireless gateway, determining by the first processor that the second message is a trusted message transmitted by a second source device, and transmitting a third message by the second radio transceiver in the second radio spectrum band to the second source device, wherein the third message directs the second source device to transmit the second message to the wireless gateway in the first radio spectrum band.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2022Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: T-Mobile Innovations LLCInventors: David Hufker, Lyle W. Paczkowski, George Jason Schnellbacher, Michael David Svoren, Jr.
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Publication number: 20240031157Abstract: A method of providing read access to information stored in a distributed ledger.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2023Publication date: January 25, 2024Inventors: Mark R. Bales, Lyle W. Paczkowski
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Patent number: 11882539Abstract: A method of communicating over a plurality of network slices concurrently. The method comprises building a distributed ledger by a network slice registrar function (NSRF) application executing on a computer, where the distributed ledger records an association between a first network slice allocated to a user equipment (UE) and a second network slice allocated to the UE, providing information about the association of the UE to the first network slice and the second network slice by the NSRF application to a network slice selector function (NSSF), establishing a first communication link between the UE and a first call end point via the first network slice by a first user plane function (UPF) and establishing a second communication link between the UE and a second call end point via the second network slice by a second UPF based on the information provided by the NSRF application to the NSSF.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2021Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: T-Mobile Innovations LLCInventor: Lyle W. Paczkowski
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System and Method of Controlling Unique Identities of Ambient Electromagnetic Power Harvesting Chips
Publication number: 20240020502Abstract: A system for controlling assignment and management of identities in ambient electromagnetic power harvesting (AEPH) chips. The system comprises a processor; a non-transitory memory; and an application stored in the non-transitory memory that, when executed by the processor, allocates a plurality of unique AEPH identities, wherein each unique identity comprises an identity of a product item and an instance identity; stores the plurality of unique AEPH identities in a first immutable record in a datastore, wherein the unique AEPH identities are associated with an initial state; provides the plurality of unique AEPH identities to an original equipment manufacturer of AEPH chips; provides an application programming interface (API); authorizes a request to update a state associated with a first unique AEPH identity in the datastore; and adds a second immutable record to the database that associates the first unique AEPH identity with an updated state of the first unique AEPH identity.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2023Publication date: January 18, 2024Inventors: Mark R. Bales, Lyle T. Bertz, Lyle W. Paczkowski, Harry W. Perlow -
Publication number: 20240015212Abstract: A method comprises receiving a blockchain comprising instructions for decompressing and reassembling media content stored at a storage system in the system, wherein a first block of the blockchain comprises data describing a compression scheme performed on a plurality of media packages associated with the media content, and wherein a second block of the blockchain comprises data regarding reassembly and rendering of the media packages to generate a render of the media content, decompressing media packages associated with the media content based on the data describing the compression scheme carried in the first block of the blockchain, reassembling the media packages to generate the render of the media content based on the data regarding reassembly and rendering of the media packages carried in the second block of the blockchain.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2023Publication date: January 11, 2024Inventors: Lyle W. Paczkowski, George Jason Schnellbacher
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Patent number: 11860688Abstract: Synchronization of precision timing signals maintained by multiple communication networks is described. A precision timing signal may be generated based on the change in state of a plurality of processors. Synchronization of the precision timing signals may be facilitated by a computing device monitoring at least two communication networks. The computing device may generate time offsets that are derived from the precision timing signals associated with each communication network. The time offsets may be communicated by the computing devices to remote devices communicatively coupled to the computing device via a first communication network. The remote devices may adjust locally maintained application clocks based on the time offset. The adjustment may synchronize the local application clock with the precision timing signal of a second communication network. In response, a remote device may communicatively couple with the second communication network.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2020Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: T-MOBILE INNOVATIONS LLCInventors: Lyle W. Paczkowski, Peter Paul Dawson, Walter F. Rausch