Patents by Inventor Mario Kosseifi
Mario Kosseifi 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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Patent number: 10690781Abstract: Example methods, apparatus, systems, and machine-readable mediums for unmanned aerial vehicle drive testing and mapping of carrier signals are disclosed. An example method may include determining that an unmanned aerial vehicle is travelling on a flight route at an altitude for determination of network performance of a cellular network. The method may further include determining, using an antenna, signal diagnostics of the cellular network during travel of the unmanned aerial vehicle on the flight route. The method may conclude with transmitting the signal diagnostics of the cellular network to a service provider.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2017Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.Inventors: Mario Kosseifi, Giuseppe De Rosa, Ronald Kiefer
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Publication number: 20200195692Abstract: A network access credential can be shared among devices based on location information for a device. Location information can include timed fingerprint location information. In an aspect, location information can be associated with a location of user equipment. This location information can be correlated with network access credentials. Location information can be used to access a relevant network access credential. The relevant network access credential can be shared with other devices. In an embodiment, sharing a network access credential can be between mobile devices. In another embodiment, sharing a network access credential can be between a remote computing device and a mobile device. Sharing a credential can allow for access to a network without having to generate or input new credentials.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2020Publication date: June 18, 2020Inventors: Rick Tipton, Mark Austin, Mario Kosseifi, Mostafa Tofighbakhsh
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Patent number: 10652622Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, providing media content to a presentation device, wherein the media content comprises first audio content in a first language; receiving, from an end user device, a language request, wherein the language request identifies a second language; obtaining, responsive to the second language, second audio content, wherein the second audio content is a translation of the first audio content into the second language; providing, to the end user device, the second audio content; obtaining, responsive to the second language identified in the language request, supplemental audio content, wherein the supplemental audio content is in the second language, wherein the supplemental audio content is not a translation of the first audio content into the second language, and wherein the supplemental audio content relates to the second language; and providing, to the end user device, the supplemental audio content. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2017Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Xidong Wu, Zhengye Liu, Mario Kosseifi
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Patent number: 10645065Abstract: Concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to proxy-based database encryption. According to one aspect, a database encryption proxy system can receive, from a database client, input of a Structured Query Language (“SQL”) statement and data to create an encrypted database table. At least a portion of the data is marked with an encrypted identifier to identify which data is to be encrypted by the proxy-based database. The database encryption proxy system can generate a random string for the portion of the data that is marked with the encrypted identifier. The database encryption proxy system can convert the SQL statement into a converted SQL statement that includes the random string in place of the portion of the data marked with the encrypted identifier and can send the converted SQL statement to a cloud database service that is configured to create the encrypted database table based upon the converted SQL statement.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2017Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Mobility II LLCInventors: Xidong Wu, Zhengye Liu, Mario Kosseifi
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Patent number: 10623086Abstract: Example methods, apparatus, systems, and machine-readable mediums for a dynamic shield system of cellular signals for an antenna of an unmanned aerial vehicle are disclosed. An example method may include receiving a navigation route for an unmanned aerial vehicle to execute during flight of the unmanned aerial vehicle and determining an orientation of a radio signal shield for an antenna of the unmanned aerial vehicle using ground level signal propagation information of radio signals for a network and the navigation route, wherein the radio signal shield prevents the radio signals from being received by the antenna from directions based on the orientation. The method may further include adjusting the radio signal shield using the orientation and communicating with a cellular base station of the network using the antenna.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2018Date of Patent: April 14, 2020Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.Inventors: Mario Kosseifi, Joseph Thomas, Giuseppe De Rosa
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Patent number: 10616654Abstract: A system that incorporates the subject disclosure may perform, for example, generating parental control information for each of a plurality of users according to options selected from a plurality of media program tags retrieved from a library, detecting a first user of the plurality of users according to biometric information of the first user, identifying the parental control information associated with the first user, tuning to a first media channel responsive to receiving a first request, receiving in the first media channel a first media program tag associated with a first media program, and enabling presentation of the first media program at a presentation device responsive to detecting from the parental control information associated with the first user that the first media program tag is included in a first list of unrestricted media program presentations. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2018Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLCInventors: Sheldon Kent Meredith, Jeremy Fix, Mario Kosseifi
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Patent number: 10594739Abstract: A network access credential can be shared among devices based on location information for a device. Location information can include timed fingerprint location information. In an aspect, location information can be associated with a location of user equipment. This location information can be correlated with network access credentials. Location information can be used to access a relevant network access credential. The relevant network access credential can be shared with other devices. In an embodiment, sharing a network access credential can be between mobile devices. In another embodiment, sharing a network access credential can be between a remote computing device and a mobile device. Sharing a credential can allow for access to a network without having to generate or input new credentials.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2019Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignees: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P., AT&T MOBILITY II LLCInventors: Rick Tipton, Mark Austin, Mario Kosseifi, Mostafa Tofighbakhsh
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Publication number: 20200059518Abstract: A system may include a first processor for storing, in a key-value column-based database, data records from data sources of a cellular network that is transformed into a single format. Customer identifiers may be used as key-values for indexing the data records in the key-value column-based database. The system may include a second processor for creating session records from the data records. Each session record may include a velocity of an endpoint device associated with a session and a number of inter-cell handoff attempts for the session. Each session record may also be labeled with a session identifier comprising a customer identifier and a timestamp. The system may further include a third processor for creating cell-level records from the session records. Each cell-level record may include a plurality of key performance indicators for a cell site of the cellular network segregated by a plurality of endpoint device types.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2019Publication date: February 20, 2020Inventors: Xidong Wu, Mark Brady, Mario Kosseifi
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Publication number: 20200008159Abstract: Altitude based device management is provided herein. A method can comprise transmitting, by a mobile device comprising a processor, a signaling message to a network device of a wireless network. The signaling message can comprise first data indicating a device type of the mobile device and second data indicating a distance measurement of the mobile device with respect to a reference point. The method can also comprise implementing, by the mobile device, a first instruction related to a power setting and a second instruction related to an operating parameter. The first instruction and the second instruction can be received from the network device and can be based on the device type of the mobile device and the distance measurement of the mobile device.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2019Publication date: January 2, 2020Inventors: Mario Kosseifi, Giuseppe De Rosa, Ronald Kiefer
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Patent number: 10515398Abstract: Personalization of a rental property is automatically performed based on presence or detection of a wireless device. A unique identifier of a wireless cellular device, for example, may be associated to a personalization profile. When the wireless cellular device is detected by a network serving the rental property, the personalization profile may be retrieved. Devices in the rental property may thus be personalized with music, movies, and other information in the personalization profile. Hotel rooms and rental cars may thus be personalized to a user of the wireless cellular device.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2015Date of Patent: December 24, 2019Assignee: AT&T MOBILITY II LLCInventors: Mario Kosseifi, Joseph Thomas
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Publication number: 20190379445Abstract: Example methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture (e.g., physical storage media) to facilitate maintaining network connectivity of aerial devices during unmanned flight are disclosed. An example method may include providing, to an access point of a radio access network (RAN) during flight of the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) on a flight route, channel allocation instructions for connecting the UAV to the radio access network via communication channels. The method may further include detecting an interference event associated with a portion of the flight route of the UAV during the flight. The method may further include adjusting, during the flight, the channel allocation instructions in response to detecting the interference event. The method may further include providing the adjusted channel allocation instructions to an access point of the radio access network during the flight.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2019Publication date: December 12, 2019Inventors: Giuseppe De Rosa, Mario Kosseifi, Ronald Kiefer
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Publication number: 20190364507Abstract: Example methods and systems are disclosed to facilitate detection and identification of devices connected to a cellular network and that are causing interference to the cellular network. An example method may include receiving, by a serving base station of the device, a first set of information associated with data communications of a device utilizing a cellular network. The method may further include determining the device is an interfering device based on the first set of information associated with the data communication substantially corresponding with an interfering device profile, and in response tracking the device. During the tracking of the device, a second set of information associated with the data communications from the device may be obtained, and an interfering device type of the device may be determined based on the second set of information. An action may be performed on the interfering device based on its interfering device type.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2018Publication date: November 28, 2019Inventors: Giuseppe De Rosa, Joseph Thomas, Feiling Jia, Mario Kosseifi, Ronald Kiefer, Xidong Wu, Richard John Mountford
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Publication number: 20190354930Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2019Publication date: November 21, 2019Applicant: AT&T Mobility II, LLCInventors: Mario Kosseifi, Joseph Thomas
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Patent number: 10469671Abstract: Servers, computer-readable media, and methods are disclosed for halting forwarding of traffic of an application exceeding a per-application data usage limitation. For example, a processor deployed in a telecommunication network may detect traffic between a third-party device and an endpoint device, associate the traffic with an application of a plurality of applications running on the endpoint device, determine, based upon a volume of the traffic, that a per-application data usage limitation for the application is exceeded, and halt forwarding of the traffic when the per-application data usage limitation for the application is exceeded.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2016Date of Patent: November 5, 2019Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLCInventors: Mario Kosseifi, Joseph B. Thomas
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Patent number: 10462220Abstract: A system may include a first processor for storing, in a key-value column-based database, data records from data sources of a cellular network that is transformed into a single format. Customer identifiers may be used as key-values for indexing the data records in the key-value column-based database. The system may include a second processor for creating session records from the data records. Each session record may include a velocity of an endpoint device associated with a session and a number of inter-cell handoff attempts for the session. Each session record may also be labeled with a session identifier comprising a customer identifier and a timestamp. The system may further include a third processor for creating cell-level records from the session records. Each cell-level record may include a plurality of key performance indicators for a cell site of the cellular network segregated by a plurality of endpoint device types.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2016Date of Patent: October 29, 2019Assignees: AT&T Mobility II LLC, AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Xidong Wu, Mark Brady, Mario Kosseifi
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Patent number: 10455520Abstract: Altitude based device management is provided herein. A method can comprise transmitting, by a mobile device comprising a processor, a signaling message to a network device of a wireless network. The signaling message can comprise first data indicating a device type of the mobile device and second data indicating a distance measurement of the mobile device with respect to a reference point. The method can also comprise implementing, by the mobile device, a first instruction related to a power setting and a second instruction related to an operating parameter. The first instruction and the second instruction can be received from the network device and can be based on the device type of the mobile device and the distance measurement of the mobile device.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2017Date of Patent: October 22, 2019Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Mario Kosseifi, Giuseppe De Rosa, Ron Kiefer
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Publication number: 20190289037Abstract: A network access credential can be shared among devices based on location information for a device. Location information can include timed fingerprint location information. In an aspect, location information can be associated with a location of user equipment. This location information can be correlated with network access credentials. Location information can be used to access a relevant network access credential. The relevant network access credential can be shared with other devices. In an embodiment, sharing a network access credential can be between mobile devices. In another embodiment, sharing a network access credential can be between a remote computing device and a mobile device. Sharing a credential can allow for access to a network without having to generate or input new credentials.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2019Publication date: September 19, 2019Inventors: Rick Tipton, Mark Austin, Mario Kosseifi, Mostafa Tofighbakhsh
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Patent number: 10417603Abstract: Wireless presence is used as a theft prevention mechanism for packages. When a package is shipped, the package includes a wireless security device. When 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: GrantFiled: March 9, 2016Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: AT&T MOBILITY II LLCInventors: Mario Kosseifi, Joseph Thomas
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Patent number: 10412436Abstract: Methods, computer-readable media and devices for presenting a personalized content to a viewer at a display are disclosed. For example, a method receives location information of a device of an individual, compares the location information to a location of the display and determines that the individual is the viewer when the location information indicates that the device of the individual is proximate to the display. The method then presents the personalized content to the viewer on the display when it is determined that the individual is the viewer.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2014Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLCInventors: Mario Kosseifi, Joseph B. Thomas
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Patent number: 10389432Abstract: Example methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture (e.g., physical storage media) to facilitate maintaining network connectivity of aerial devices during unmanned flight are disclosed. An example method may include providing, to an access point of a radio access network (RAN) during flight of the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) on a flight route, channel allocation instructions for connecting the UAV to the radio access network via communication channels. The method may further include detecting an interference event associated with a portion of the flight route of the UAV during the flight. The method may further include adjusting, during the flight, the channel allocation instructions in response to detecting the interference event. The method may further include providing the adjusted channel allocation instructions to an access point of the radio access network during the flight.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2017Date of Patent: August 20, 2019Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Giuseppe De Rosa, Mario Kosseifi, Ronald Kiefer