Patents by Inventor Oliver Spatscheck
Oliver Spatscheck 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: 11918918Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, analyzing data to identify that the data is associated with an online game, translating, based on the analyzing, a first address associated with the data to a second address that is different from the first address, and transmitting the data to a communication device using the second address. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Michael R. Albrecht, Oliver Spatscheck
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Publication number: 20230191261Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, analyzing data to identify that the data is associated with an online game, translating, based on the analyzing, a first address associated with the data to a second address that is different from the first address, and transmitting the data to a communication device using the second address. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2021Publication date: June 22, 2023Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Michael R. Albrecht, Oliver Spatscheck
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Publication number: 20230198935Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining first traffic from a first communication device; analyzing the first traffic to classify the first traffic as being associated with an execution of a first application; based on the classification of the first traffic as being associated with the execution of the first application, translating an address associated with the first traffic from a first address associated with a first network to a second address associated with a second network, the second network being different from the first network; and conveying the first traffic to a second communication device of the second network using the second address. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2021Publication date: June 22, 2023Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Michael R. Albrecht, Oliver Spatscheck
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Publication number: 20230143716Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining a first analysis of first traffic associated with a first communication device, obtaining a second analysis of second traffic associated with a second communication device, identifying, based on the obtaining of the first analysis and the obtaining of the second analysis, a first handicap to be applied to a first connection associated with the first communication device, and applying the first handicap to the first connection. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2021Publication date: May 11, 2023Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Michael R. Albrecht, John Craig, Jonathan Davis, Camden Krupala, Virginia S. Ng, David Plunkett, JR., Michael Zadig, James Carlton Bedingfield, SR., Michael L. Hunter, Oliver Spatscheck, Raghvendra Savoor
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Patent number: 11489930Abstract: A processing system of an edge exchange point including at least one processor may receive, from a cloud service provider a request to allocate a first tag to communications between the cloud service provider and a first telecommunication network, transmit an acceptance of the request to allocate the first tag to the communications between the cloud service provider and the first telecommunication network, obtaining a first packet containing the first tag from the cloud service provider, and transmit the first packet to the first telecommunication network in accordance with the first tag.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2019Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Abhigyan, Bharath Balasubramanian, Kaustubh Joshi, Oliver Spatscheck
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Patent number: 11483379Abstract: A method, computer-readable medium, and apparatus for supporting services for customer traffic using edge clouds are disclosed. For example, a processing system may receive an indication of a set of customer devices of a customer of a network provider and an indication of a service of an edge cloud to be applied to customer traffic of the customer devices, support configuration of a network of the network provider to support a customer segment for the customer including configuration of a gateway of the network and a switch of the network that is associated with the edge cloud, support configuration of a virtual network between the switch and an edge cloud element supporting the service, and support configuration of the switch to support an association of the customer segment and the virtual network for supporting routing of the customer traffic to the service via the virtual network.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2020Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Abhigyan, Aleksandr Zelezniak, Kaustubh Joshi, Oliver Spatscheck
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Publication number: 20220329483Abstract: A network device comprising: a processor, an input/output device coupled to the processor, and a memory coupled with the processor, the memory comprising executable instructions that when executed by the processor cause the processor to effectuate operations including instantiating at least one node comprising a packet processor and a network interface, the packet processor configured to process a packet header at a network layer, wherein the at least one node includes a common configuration; extracting virtual network function parameters through an inference engine; generating a virtual network function template based on the virtual network function parameters, wherein the virtual network function template instantiates at least one virtual network function by assembling the at least one virtual network function from the at least one node; and automatically configures the virtual network function for onboarding onto a platform.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2022Publication date: October 13, 2022Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Chengwei Wang, Oliver Spatscheck
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Publication number: 20220303752Abstract: Systems and methods provide containers instantiated for each user equipment (UE), or on “per-UE” bases, which consolidate certain network functions for processing UE traffic into an efficient, in-network, and proximate virtualization to reduce latency and increase customizability.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2022Publication date: September 22, 2022Applicants: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., The Regents of the University of MichiganInventors: Subhabrata Sen, Oliver Spatscheck, Mehrdad Moradi, Zhuoqing Morley Mao
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Patent number: 11418386Abstract: A network device comprising: a processor, an input/output device coupled to the processor, and a memory coupled with the processor, the memory comprising executable instructions that when executed by the processor cause the processor to effectuate operations including instantiating at least one node comprising a packet processor and a network interface, the packet processor configured to process a packet header at a network layer, wherein the at least one node includes a common configuration; extracting virtual network function parameters through an inference engine; generating a virtual network function template based on the virtual network function parameters, wherein the virtual network function template instantiates at least one virtual network function by assembling the at least one virtual network function from the at least one node; and automatically configures the virtual network function for onboarding onto a platform.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2018Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Chengwei Wang, Oliver Spatscheck
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Patent number: 11388579Abstract: Systems and methods provide containers instantiated for each user equipment (UE), or on “per-UE” bases, which consolidate certain network functions for processing UE traffic into an efficient, in-network, and proximate virtualization to reduce latency and increase customizability.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2020Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignees: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P., THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANInventors: Subhabrata Sen, Oliver Spatscheck, Mehrdad Moradi, Zhuoqing Morley Mao
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Publication number: 20220159059Abstract: A method, computer-readable medium, and apparatus for supporting services for customer traffic using edge clouds are disclosed. For example, a processing system may receive an indication of a set of customer devices of a customer of a network provider and an indication of a service of an edge cloud to be applied to customer traffic of the customer devices, support configuration of a network of the network provider to support a customer segment for the customer including configuration of a gateway of the network and a switch of the network that is associated with the edge cloud, support configuration of a virtual network between the switch and an edge cloud element supporting the service, and support configuration of the switch to support an association of the customer segment and the virtual network for supporting routing of the customer traffic to the service via the virtual network.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2020Publication date: May 19, 2022Inventors: Abhigyan, Aleksandr Zelezniak, Kaustubh Joshi, Oliver Spatscheck
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Publication number: 20220109695Abstract: An example first device disclosed herein is to obtain, from a library of the first device, a pre-master secret value and a master secret value associated with a session key for a communication session between the first device and a second device, the library instrumented to log the pre-master and master secret values during handshaking, the session key based on the pre-master secret value, the master secret value and data strings exchanged during the handshaking. The disclosed example first device is also to capture a packet level trace corresponding to the communication session, the packet level trace including the data strings and encrypted data. The disclosed example first device is further to determine the session key based on the pre-master secret value, the master secret value and the data strings without use of a proxy, and decrypt the encrypted data with the session key to obtain decrypted data.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2021Publication date: April 7, 2022Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Feng Qian, Oliver Spatscheck, Subhabrata Sen
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Patent number: 11240269Abstract: An example first device disclosed herein is to obtain, from a library of the first device, a pre-master secret value and a master secret value associated with a session key for a communication session between the first device and a second device, the library instrumented to log the pre-master and master secret values during handshaking, the session key based on the pre-master secret value, the master secret value and data strings exchanged during the handshaking. The disclosed example first device is also to capture a packet level trace corresponding to the communication session, the packet level trace including the data strings and encrypted data. The disclosed example first device is further to determine the session key based on the pre-master secret value, the master secret value and the data strings without use of a proxy, and decrypt the encrypted data with the session key to obtain decrypted data.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2019Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Feng Qian, Oliver Spatscheck, Subhabrata Sen
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Publication number: 20210304766Abstract: Devices, computer-readable media, and methods for submitting a modified voice input to a service based upon a user intent determined from a voice input in accordance with a voice interface of the service are disclosed. A processing system including at least one processor may obtain a voice input of a user, determine an intent from the voice input, identify a first service, from among a plurality of services, in accordance with the intent, and formulate a first modified voice input from the voice input in accordance with a voice interface of the first service, where each of the services is associated with one of a plurality of different voice interfaces. The processing system may further submit the first modified voice input to the first service, obtain a first voice response from the first service, and present a voice output to the user in accordance with the first voice response.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2021Publication date: September 30, 2021Inventors: Varun Gupta, John Murray, Kaustubh Joshi, Mazin Gilbert, Oliver Spatscheck, Rittwik Jana
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Patent number: 11122131Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses, among other things, may direct client requests to an Edge Cloud location satisfying application requirements associated with the request. Moreover, a domain name service (DNS) query may be received, one or more requests associated with DNS query may be determined, a server may be identified based on the one or more requests, and the DNS query may be redirected to the identified server.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2020Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Aleksandr Zelezniak, Abhigyan, Kaustubh Joshi, Oliver Spatscheck
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Patent number: 11037559Abstract: Devices, computer-readable media, and methods for submitting a modified voice input to a service based upon a user intent determined from a voice input in accordance with a voice interface of the service are disclosed. A processing system including at least one processor may obtain a voice input of a user, determine an intent from the voice input, identify a first service, from among a plurality of services, in accordance with the intent, and formulate a first modified voice input from the voice input in accordance with a voice interface of the first service, where each of the services is associated with one of a plurality of different voice interfaces. The processing system may further submit the first modified voice input to the first service, obtain a first voice response from the first service, and present a voice output to the user in accordance with the first voice response.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2018Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.Inventors: Varun Gupta, John Murray, Kaustubh Joshi, Mazin Gilbert, Oliver Spatscheck, Rittwik Jana
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Patent number: 10992600Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a virtual network element that includes a plurality of virtual machine modules configured to process a plurality of control packets in a virtualized telecommunication network. A classifier module is configured to receive telecommunications traffic that includes the plurality of control packets and a plurality of data packets, to separate the plurality of control plane data from the at least one data packet, and to forward the plurality of control packets to selected ones of the plurality of virtual machine modules. A forwarding device, coupled to the classifier module and separate from the plurality of virtual machine modules, is configured to forward the plurality of data packets in the virtualized telecommunication network. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2020Date of Patent: April 27, 2021Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Chengwei Wang, Vijay Gopalakrishnan, Oliver Spatscheck, Yang Xu, Kyle Robert Bilbray
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Patent number: 10979386Abstract: A method includes receiving a request for an edge cache address, and comparing a requestor address to an anycast group. The method can further include providing an anycast edge cache address when the requestor address is in the anycast group. Alternatively, the method can further include determining an optimal cache server, and providing a unicast address of the optimal cache server when the requestor address is not in the anycast group.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2020Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY II, L.P.Inventors: Alexandre Gerber, Oliver Spatscheck, Jacobus Van der Merwe
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Publication number: 20200396301Abstract: A processing system of an edge exchange point including at least one processor may receive, from a cloud service provider a request to allocate a first tag to communications between the cloud service provider and a first telecommunication network, transmit an acceptance of the request to allocate the first tag to the communications between the cloud service provider and the first telecommunication network, obtaining a first packet containing the first tag from the cloud service provider, and transmit the first packet to the first telecommunication network in accordance with the first tag.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2019Publication date: December 17, 2020Inventors: Abhigyan, Bharath Balasubramanian, Kaustubh Joshi, Oliver Spatscheck
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Publication number: 20200389780Abstract: Systems and methods provide containers instantiated for each user equipment (UE), or on “per-UE” bases, which consolidate certain network functions for processing UE traffic into an efficient, in-network, and proximate virtualization to reduce latency and increase customizability.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2020Publication date: December 10, 2020Inventors: Subhabrata Sen, Oliver Spatscheck, Mehrdad Moradi, Zhuoqing Morley Mao