Patents Assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
  • Publication number: 20240365171
    Abstract: The disclosed technology is directed towards load balancing baseband units in a communications network. A baseband physical layer 1 unit's functions are disaggregated into Layer 1 (L1) distributed units and radio units, instead of deploying full-fledged baseband units at a service? provider's service areas (cells). A load balancer scales up the number of active distributed units based on increased actual demand, and scales down the active distributed units based on decreased demand. The L1 distributed units and radio units can be software-defined network functions, and need not be collocated, whereby the distributed units can be in the cloud or hub remotely located relative to the radio units deployed at the service areas. Examples of load balancing can be load balancing of transmitted data per carrier, per subcarrier, per user equipment, per transmission time interval (TTI/slot), per bearer, or per channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2024
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Minsung Jang, Aleksandr Zelezniak, Kaustubh Joshi
  • Publication number: 20240364703
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a processing system determining a first communication device initiating a communication session with a second communication device, and transmitting a notification to the second communication device. The notification indicates to the second communication device to initiate a location verification application on the second communication device, and the location verification application transmits notifications to adjacent network devices. Each notification indicates to an adjacent network device to provide its location to the processing system. Further embodiments include receiving locations from the adjacent network devices, and identifying a first location associated with the second communication device. Additional embodiments include determining that the first location is in proximity to the locations, and establishing the communication session between the first communication device and the second communication device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2024
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventor: Joseph Soryal
  • Publication number: 20240364580
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining first data pertaining to an outage in a first portion of a communications system, obtaining second data pertaining to a relationship between the first portion of the communications system and a second portion of the communications system, analyzing the first data the second data to identify a risk to communication services facilitated by the second portion of the communications system, determining that the risk is greater than a threshold, and generating, based on the determining, a recommendation for reducing the risk. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2024
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P
    Inventors: Christopher May, Chris Kaylor, Robert Thornton, Paul Burns
  • Publication number: 20240364716
    Abstract: Network security is applied to identify malicious activity occurring on a network or at network nodes from a coordinated attack. For instance, a device, comprising a memory and a processor, can generate a first flag signal representative of a first flag applicable to first data and a second flag signal representative of a second flag applicable to second data in response to the first and second data being determined to be related and directed to a common destination node using identifiers associated with network equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2024
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Joseph Soryal, Dylan Chamberlain Reid
  • Patent number: 12131681
    Abstract: In one example, the present disclosure describes a device, computer-readable medium, and method for image format conversion using luminance-adaptive dithering. For instance, in one example, a method includes acquiring an image in a first format, wherein the first format is associated with a first electro-optical transfer function, identifying a second format to which to convert the image, wherein the second format is associated with a second electro-optical transfer function, and applying dithering to the image in the second format, based on an evaluation of a luminance-dependent metric against a predefined threshold, wherein the luminance-dependent metric is computed from at least one of the first electro-optical transfer function and the second electro-optical transfer function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventor: Peshala Pahalawatta
  • Patent number: 12132634
    Abstract: A method may include receiving current environment condition information associated with an extended reality device; receiving historical environment condition information associated with the extended reality device; based on current environment condition information and the historical environment condition information, determining one or more adjustments to meet a performance threshold for rendering objects on the an extended reality device or using the an extended reality device; and sending instructions to implement the one or more adjustments to meet the performance threshold for rendering objects on the extended reality device or using the extended reality device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Eric Zavesky, Wen-Ling Hsu, Tan Xu
  • Patent number: 12132948
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a local server coupled to a plurality of client devices. The local server may receive encrypted content from one or more content sources and provide the content to the client devices. The local server and client devices may be part of a multi-client environment such as a hotel or conference center. The local server does not decrypt and re-encrypt content, thereby allowing the use of low cost equipment. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Xin Wang, Richard Tatem, Reza Pezeshki, Joseph Z. Fung, Brian Moore, Horia-Mihai Popa, Luan Le-Chau
  • Patent number: 12132579
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a plurality of accounting nodes, each accounting node being associated with a service node of a communication network, each accounting node being configured to collect data usage information for a network segment of the communication network including an associated service node, and an accounting server in data communication with accounting nodes of the plurality of accounting nodes, the accounting server configured to receive from the accounting nodes the data usage information for each service node and determine billing for data usage of each network segment. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Howard Lang, Joseph Soryal
  • Publication number: 20240354148
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, instantiating a virtual smartphone in a cloud infrastructure, installing a smartphone application on the virtual smartphone, receiving input sensor data from a physical user device, providing the input sensor data to the smartphone application on the virtual smartphone, receiving output data from the smartphone application on the virtual smartphone, and providing the output data to the physical user device. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Yaron Kanza, Arun Jotshi, Raghvendre Savoor
  • Publication number: 20240357412
    Abstract: Adjusting a network path between a user equipment and a network edge cloud instance is disclosed. The adjustment of the network path can be based on performance of the network path. The performance of the network path can be ranked, based on performance, against other network paths. In an embodiment, the other network paths can be between the user equipment and the network edge cloud instance. Additionally, the other network paths can be between the user equipment and another network edge cloud instance that can be located remotely from the network edge cloud instance. In an embodiment, a recommendation can be provided to a cloud service provider to enable the cloud service provider to adjust a characteristic of an application or service performed by a network edge cloud instance. The disclosed subject matter can provide advantages over conventional cloud instances that are typically supported on a device located distant from a network device operated by a network provider.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Applicants: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Ronald Samuel Barchi, Erie Lai Har Lau, Yehoshuva Arasavelli
  • Publication number: 20240356689
    Abstract: The disclosed subject matter relates to techniques for transmitting reference signals in non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) communication protocols. In one embodiment, a method comprises determining a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) for use by a group of mobile devices in association with uplink data transmissions, wherein respective mobile devices of the group of mobile devices are configured to employ a same time and a same frequency resource of a wireless communication network in association with communicating with network devices of the wireless communication network according to a NOMA communication protocol. The method further comprises determining different configuration parameters for application by the respective mobile devices in association with transmitting the DMRS with the uplink data transmissions, wherein the different configuration parameters facilitate differentiating between the DMRS as transmitted by the respective mobile devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventor: SaiRamesh Nammi
  • Publication number: 20240356597
    Abstract: The technologies described herein are generally directed to providing, based on a paging message, radio resources to facilitate a transition to active mode by idle user equipment in a fifth generation (5G) network or other next generation networks. An example method can include identifying an idle mode activation message. The method can further include, based on the activation message, predicting that the user device is going to request an active connection. Further, the method can include prioritizing allocation of antenna resources to the user device over different user devices in an idle state, based on a prediction that the user device will transition to an active state before the different user devices. Further, the method can include, based on the prioritizing, directing a base station to cause a beamformed signal to a predicted location of the user device to accept the active connection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Applicants: AT&T intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T intellectual Property II, L.P., AT&T Mobility II LLC, AT&T Technical Services Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Vivanco, Kurt Huber, Thomas Henderson, Julius Fodje
  • Publication number: 20240354609
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, identifying, by a processing system of a classical computer, a predetermined state of a communications system, the communications system managed by a rule engine implementing a plurality of rules in response to a set of state variables; providing, by the processing system, to a quantum computer, a set of Qbits corresponding to the predetermined state of the communications system; and receiving, by the processing system, from the quantum computer, a set of solution Qbits, the solution Qbits corresponding to one or more actions of the classical computer to place the communication system in a desired state from the predetermined state. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2022
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Mohammad Nikain, Jiyuan Wang, Daniel Connolly
  • Publication number: 20240356888
    Abstract: Techniques for validating alignment between network element configuration and DNS records associated with a communication network are presented. Alignment management component (AMC) can retrieve respective configuration parameter data items relating to respective configuration parameters associated with respective resource-related identifiers, and respective metadata items associated with the respective resource-related identifiers, from a configuration data store; and retrieve respective DNS records from respective DNS name servers, based on analyzing the respective metadata items associated with respective DNS records. For each resource-related identifier that is supposed to have a corresponding DNS record, based on the result of analyzing the respective configuration parameter data items and respective DNS records, AMC can determine whether the resource-related identifier has a corresponding DNS record stored in the DNS name server indicated by the metadata item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Chaoxin Qiu, Eric Ashby, Min Lu, Lakshminarashimhan Naidu
  • Publication number: 20240357335
    Abstract: Resources associated with a responder communication network and a communication network can be managed in an effective manner. In connection with an event, a resource management component (RMC) can analyze network-related data associated with the networks and external data relating to the event or a geographic area related thereto. In connection with the event, based on the analysis, RMC can desirably manage the resources, in part, by determining locations or adjustments for portable base stations, sensors, and/or devices associated with the responder communication network to facilitate high quality communication of information, determining traffic routes and other path planning for vehicles or personnel, creating network slices for high quality communication of information, and/or performing monitoring and intelligent troubleshooting with regard to the networks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Applicant: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Mehdi Malboubi, Raghvendra Savoor, Baofeng Jiang
  • Patent number: 12125362
    Abstract: The disclosed technology is directed towards associating a rescue tag with a victim in need of rescue, in which the rescue tag collects condition (biological state) data associated with the victim and provides a location of the rescue tag. The location data is maintained in association with the condition data. A responder makes a request to output the condition data, and in response, the responder's device is presented with an augmented reality display that shows the victim condition data relative to the location data. Multiple victims can be efficiently triaged, with more urgent victims highlighted via augmented reality for more urgent treatment. Filtering as requested by a responder can present augmented reality display for only a subset of the victims. Also described is the use of an aerial vehicle to assist the responders and/or a command center; the aerial vehicle can act as an edge node for efficient communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Adrianne Luu, Robert Moton, Jr., Ryan Schaub, Timothy Knezevich, Barrett Kreiner, Wei Wang, Ari Craine, Robert Koch
  • Patent number: 12126544
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, determining a personalized cloud service requirement based on a user identity and proximity to a first location. A first edge network is configured based on the personalized cloud service requirement and the first location, and the user is provided with access to a personalized cloud service via the configured first edge network according to their proximity to the first location. A second, different location is determined, and a second edge network is configured based on the personalized cloud service requirement and according to the second location. The user is provided with access to the personalized cloud service via the configured second edge network according to their proximity to the second location. In this manner, the edge network may be reconfigured to effectively follow the user, thereby extending remote access to a consistent, personalized cloud service. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Rashmi Palamadai, Yupeng Jia
  • Patent number: 12124575
    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 capturing images generated by a fiducial invoked on a user device; determining a context of the fiducial; detect an anomaly in the images based on the context; and responsive to detecting the anomaly, providing a notification of the anomaly. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Kostikey Mustakas, Eric Zavesky, James Pratt
  • Patent number: 12126634
    Abstract: Concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to an installable mutable intelligent security package (“IMISP”) and security system in Internet of Things (“IoT”) networks. According to one aspect disclosed herein, an IoT device can receive an IMISP. The IMISP can scan a plurality of memory locations of the memory for an IMISP operating system process. In response to finding the IMISP operating system process in a memory location of the plurality of memory locations, the IMISP and the IMISP operating system process can conduct a mutual authentication process. In response to a successful result of the mutual authentication process, the IMISP can self-install in the memory location. The IMISP can then scan the memory of the IoT device for an anomaly. In response to finding the anomaly, the IMISP can generate a report that includes information associated with the anomaly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Joseph Soryal, Naila Jaoude
  • Patent number: 12127149
    Abstract: A method for discerning single registration subscribers and dual registration subscribers, and routes single registration traffic as internal and routes dual registration traffic as external.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventor: Timothy Yao