Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices are described for establishing communication with an access point. A wireless device may determine to switch to another access point radio based on a variety of factors. The wireless device may use a dynamic threshold to determine whether to switch to another access point radio. The dynamic threshold may be based on a current state of the wireless device. The wireless device may determine other access point radios to switch to directly or indirectly. An access point radio may broadcast information associated with the access point as well as information associated with other access point radios.

Abstract: Methods and systems for identifying threats within a network include collecting network traffic data and providing the network traffic data to a classifier configured to identify patterns within the network traffic data consistent with malicious computing devices. The computing devices identified by the classifier are then validated to confirm whether they are, in fact, malicious. In one implementation, such validation is accomplished by interrogating suspected malicious computing devices with messages according to a particular communication protocol and determining whether corresponding responses received form the malicious computing devices are similarly in accordance with the communication protocol. In certain implementations, after identification and validation of a malicious computing device, an emulated computing device is used to continue communication with the malicious computing device and to log characteristics of such communications to further train the classifier.

Abstract: A computer implemented method is disclosed. The computer implemented method comprises providing a guaranteed price plan to a customer for a predetermined time period and learning about network element usage over the predetermined time period to provide a learned price plan. The computer implemented method also comprises determining a new price plan based on the learned price plan. Finally, the computer implemented method comprises utilizing the new price plan with customer's network elements.

Abstract: Wireless communications for selecting an uplink carrier for a random access procedure are described. A base station may configure a wireless device with one or more uplink carriers associated with a downlink carrier of a cell. The one or more uplink carriers may comprise at least a normal uplink (NUL) carrier and a supplemental uplink (SUL) carrier. The wireless device may measure one or more downlink reference signals and channel occupancy level(s) of an NUL and/or an SUL. The wireless device may select one of an NUL or an SUL for a random access procedure, for example, based on a signal strength of the one or more downlink reference signals and/or the channel occupancy level(s).

Abstract: A mobile communication device is disclosed comprising a display, a processor, a non-transitory memory, and a client application that displays a transparent overlay on a lock screen on the display, receives a touch input to the display, and determines whether the touch input corresponds to a portion of the display displaying content of the transparent overlay. In response to determining that the touch input corresponds to the portion of the display displaying the content of the transparent overlay, the client application bypasses the lock screen and displays renewal content. In response to determining that the touch input does not correspond to the portion of the display displaying the content of the transparent overlay, the client application removes the transparent overlay from the display to allow touch inputs to go to the lock screen and enables a security feature to allow unlocking of the mobile communication device based on user input.

Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed that provide a closed loop power control system including adaptively adjusting the desired target SINR over time so as to ultimately achieve a feasible SINR. In one implementation, a method is provided of optimizing uplink closed loop power control in a RAN in which one or more base stations each service a plurality of mobile stations, including: determining a power level for each mobile station for its respective uplink transmissions, including measuring a current achieved SINR for each mobile station; and for each mobile station, adjusting the power level to be sufficiently high to meet desired transmission characteristics but not so high as to cause unnecessary interference with transmissions from other mobile stations, by adjusting a desired target SINR based on factors selected from the following: current and prior achieved SINRs, current and prior interference measurements, and current and prior transmission power control commands.

Abstract: A method is provided for enabling a User Equipment to access services provided by a Radio Access Network by configuring the User Equipment (UE) with configuration information which comprises rules for selecting one or more of a plurality of access procedures to be used by the UE for accessing services provided by the Radio Access Network which may be a New Radio/5G network. Access procedures may include a grant-based procedure; a grant-free procedure and a fallback procedure to be used in cases of failure of an initial access attempt. The rules may be based on the type of service required by the UE such as; transmission and/or reception of data, transmission and/or reception of a voice call, a request for System Information.

Abstract: Systems and methods for providing multichannel video programming or content through a terrestrial fiber network of a telecommunications network. One or more high-quality content feeds may be provided to one or more replicator devices of the telecommunications network over a communication line. The replicator devices of the network then deliver one or more replicated content streams generated from the content feeds to any number of customers or receivers of the content also connected to the network. The replicators may be configured to, among other things, provide content streams according to a specific schedule, provide alternative content streams for particular customers or in response to particular events, or operate in conjunction with data analyzers for assessing the quality of the content stream or the reliability of the telecommunications network.

Abstract: Cache management techniques are described for a content distribution network (CDN), for example, a video on demand (VOD) system supporting user requests and delivery of video content. A preferred cache size may be calculated for one or more cache devices in the CDN, for example, based on a maximum cache memory size, a bandwidth availability associated with the CDN, and a title dispersion calculation determined by the user requests within the CDN. After establishing the cache with a set of assets (e.g., video content), an asset replacement algorithm may be executed at one or more cache devices in the CDN. When a determination is made that a new asset should be added to a full cache, a multi-factor comparative analysis may be performed on the assets currently residing in the cache, comparing the popularity and size of assets and combinations of assets, along with other factors to determine which assets should be replaced in the cache device.

Abstract: A system and method for automating the training of enterprise customer response systems using a range of dynamic or generic data sets, used to gradually take human supervision and intervention out of the training process for enterprise WA and similar automated response engines, by training existing machine learning models or engines using a heuristic middleman annotation assistant that helps map generic/public/new datasets to the existing machine learning model or engine, and allowing for limited human oversight over the remaining unknown or badly classified data segments which is used to further teach the heuristic and classification model until the human oversight is no longer needed for the heuristic to learn and map newer datasets, thereby reducing human, dollar, and time costs, and improving automated response system efficiency.

Abstract: A female hardened fiber optic connector for terminating an end of a fiber optic cable that is suitable for making an optical connection with another hardened cable assembly and cable assemblies using the same are disclosed. The female hardened fiber optic connector includes a connector assembly, a crimp body, a connector sleeve, and female coupling housing. The connector sleeve has one or more orientation features that cooperate with one or more orientation features inside the female coupling housing. The crimp body has a first shell and a second shell for securing the connector assembly at a front end of the shells and a cable attachment region rearward of the front end for securing a cable.

Abstract: A messaging server receives a network packet that encapsulates a user packet that indicates a source domain and a destination domain. The user packet encapsulates a data message that indicates a code and comprises encrypted data. The messaging server transfers the user packet to a distributed ledger. The distributed ledger executes a distributed ledger transaction with the domains and the code to determine a receiving device. The distributed ledger commits the user packet and device identifiers to distributed ledger memory and transfers the user packet and the receiving device identifier to the messaging server. The messaging server encapsulates the user packet in a network packet for delivery to the receiving device. The user packet encapsulates that data message that indicates the code and comprises the encrypted user data.

Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for wireless communications. A wireless device may inform a base station of a failure of a beam failure recovery procedure for a secondary cell. The wireless device may include an indicator of the failure in a report providing, or configured to provide, values for signal strength or other characteristic of a downlink signal. The indicator may be in addition to, and/or may replace, one or more indicators of signal strength or other characteristic.

Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve provisioning customers of an aggregator, such as a reseller, of a content delivery network (CDN). In one aspect, content requests to the CDN are processed in accordance with the virtual IP (VIP) address at which the request was received, according to a property template bound to the VIP where the template is selected by the customer and only involves discrete parameters for the reseller. In another aspect, cache fills of the network are processed without direct knowledge of the customer origin through a combination of some request attribute, e.g., alias host of the customer, and an attribute of the reseller to make a DNS request to a name server outside the CDN. Another aspect involves receiving a property template selection, an origin and an alias from a customer of the reseller, and providing appropriate DNS entries to validate the customer and provide origin information to the CDN.

Abstract: Systems and methods for providing power to a home entertainment integrated circuit chip are disclosed. The home entertainment integrated circuit chip can operate in at least two power control modes: “power on” mode and “standby” mode. In power on mode, power is supplied to IC core module from a main power supply. The power supplied to the IC core module is isolated from power supplied to a standby island. Accordingly, during the second mode power is applied only to the standby power island through a regulator internal to the integrated circuit chip. The regulator is coupled to an external peripheral input/output (I/O) power supply that is independent of the main power supply.

Abstract: A wideband envelope modulator comprises a direct current (DC)-to-DC switching converter connected in series with a linear amplitude modulator (LAM). The DC-DC switching converter includes a pulse-width modulator that generates a PWM signal with modulated pulse widths representing a time varying magnitude of an input envelope signal or a pulse-density modulator that generates a PDM signal with a modulated pulse density representing the time varying magnitude of the input envelope signal, a field-effect transistor (FET) driver stage that generates a PWM or PDM drive signal, a high-power output switching stage that is driven by the PWM or PDM drive signal, and an output energy storage network including a low-pass filter (LPF) of order greater than two that filters a switching voltage produced at an output switching node of the high-power output switching stage.

Abstract: Systems and methods are described for managing DNS records. An intermediary device, such as a web portal or API, may be configured to communicate with a variety of domain name servers. The intermediary device may store authorization rules to verify commands from users to update records of the domain name servers. The authorization rules allow for users to have limited access to domain zones, domain records, domain servers, types of records, records associated with metadata, and other data. The domain name servers may store domain name records in a common data store allowing for extended searching and metadata tagging of data.

Abstract: Disclosed in the present invention are a LTE-U and WIFI 5G channel self-interference addressing method and system. An status change message of the LTE-U is received by a radio resource control layer of an LTE protocol stack, and reported to a mobile terminal application layer by a registration module of an non-access layer; and corresponding system parameters are configured according to the status change message of the LTE-U, and a WIFI available channel list is configured by using the system parameters to control the on and off of the 5 GHz channel. Therefore, a user can enjoy a high rate brought by the LTE-U network, and the WIFI hotspot and P2P of the user are ensured to be available externally, thus creating great convenience.

Abstract: An apparatus and/or method discloses a video conference with enhanced audio quality using high-fidelity audio sharing (“HAS”). In one embodiment, a network connection between a first user equipment (“UE”) and a second UE is established via a communication network for providing an interactive real-time meeting. After sending a first calibration audio signal from the first UE to the second UE, a second calibration audio signal is retuned from the second UE to the first UE according to the first calibration audio signal. Upon identifying a far end audio (“FEA”) delay based on the first calibration audio signal and the second calibration audio signal, a first mixed audio data containing the first shared audio data and first FEA data is fetched from an audio buffer. The first FEA data is subsequently removed or extracted from the mixed audio data in response to the FEA delay.

Abstract: A system for ordering a new electronic device is provided with an application programming interface to receive notification of the availability of a new electronic device and to send a selection of a feature for that new electronic device. A database can be coupled to a server to store the selected feature and to store a priority status value assigned to the new electronic device when feature selections are made. The priority status value allows prioritized ordering of a new electronic device. Preferably, one or more new electronic devices are ordered within a pre-determined period after a pre-order opening date, all of which is performed on the application programming interface of an electronic device.