Patents Assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I
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Patent number: 12089181Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining media content from a media content server over a mobile network, and providing the media content to a communication device over a first direct communication link. Embodiments include detecting a mobility event associated with the mobile network, and providing a notification message to a first network device associated with the mobile network. Further embodiments can include obtaining instructions from the first network device, wherein the instructions indicate to provide a mobility event notification. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2021Date of Patent: September 10, 2024Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventor: Thomas Novlan
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Publication number: 20240297819Abstract: 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 facilitating activation of a first module for a wireless system; integrating the first module into the wireless system; checking for errors during the integration of the first module in the wireless system; responsive to a determination that the integrating of the first module is error free, placing the wireless system in an operational state; and receiving an operational error code from an originating module. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2024Publication date: September 5, 2024Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Bo Lee, Zhi Cui
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Publication number: 20240297915Abstract: Connecting user equipment (UE) to an application can be managed based on UE movement and location. During data session between UE and application, a communication management component (CMC) associated with anchor network component (ANC) or serving network component (SNC) determines UE location, and connects UE to the ANC and SNC, which enables access of the application via a data network associated with ANC. As UE moves, CMC tracks UE movement and communication conditions. If, when UE is at second location, a communication condition breaches threshold level, CMC determines whether interruption of the data session is permitted. If not, CMC determines whether there is a local SNC in proximity to second location. If there is, CMC can switch UE from SNC to local SNC, which can access local application content via local data network associated with application. If interruption permitted, UE deactivates and reactivates to connect to local ANC.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2024Publication date: September 5, 2024Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Jiansong Wang, Joseph Mueller
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Patent number: 12081998Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a process for selecting equipment locations such as of cellular antennas, based on a combination of a geospatial grid representation of a planning area and optimization algorithms (which can be combined with propagation models and a 3D model of the world) where the optimization algorithm can select a deployment from a large space of options and would make RAN planning much more efficient. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2022Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Yaron Kanza, Arun Jotshi, Velin Kounev
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Patent number: 12082044Abstract: An architecture for facilitating smart physical cell identity (PCI) configuration for aerial network equipment that can used in terrestrial 4G and/or 5G LTE wireless networking paradigms. A method can comprise: receiving, from core network equipment, an instruction to travel from a first geographic location to a second geographic location, wherein the second geographic location has been determined, by the core network equipment, as representing a hotspot location; traveling from the first geographic location to the hotspot location; based on crossing a boundary associated with the hotspot location, initiating execution of a user equipment relay process that transitions the aerial user equipment from being user equipment to being aerial network equipment; and transmitting to the core network equipment that the user equipment relay process has been successfully initiated.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2022Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Technical Services Company, Inc.Inventors: Daniel Vivanco, Slawomir Stawiarski, David Beppler
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Patent number: 12081992Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, initializing a secure timer in a wireless device, determining whether a subscriber identification module (SIM) card installed in the wireless device comprises a carrier identity that matches a carrier identity stored in the machine-readable medium, establishing a network connection with a trusted server, starting the secure timer if the SIM card and network connection are satisfactory, periodically checking the network connection and SIM card until expiry of the secure timer, penalizing the secure timer responsive to a failure of the network connection or SIM card check, and responsive to expiry of the secure timer, unlocking a SIM lock. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2022Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Ginger Chien, Richard Zaffino
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Patent number: 12079373Abstract: A method includes receiving a request from an internet content provider to provide data about a subscriber associated with an IP address, where the data allows the internet content provider to maintain stateful and persistent information about an HTTP session with a user endpoint device associated with the IP address determining whether the Internet content provider is a trusted Internet content provider pre-authorized to receive at least some of the data about the subscriber, determining a subset of the data about the subscriber that is allowed to be shared with the Internet content provider, when the Internet content provider is determined to be a trusted Internet content provider, providing the subset of the data to the Internet content provider, when the subset of the data is determined, and denying the request to provide the data, when the Internet content provider is determined not to be a trusted Internet content provider.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2022Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Douglas M. Nortz, Robert Sayko
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Patent number: 12082280Abstract: In one example, a method includes instructing a mobile device of a user to establish a connection with an application server via a first network slice, where the first network slice is configured based on an initial resource need of a network connected application executing on the mobile device and an initial set of network conditions, sending, to the mobile device, a prediction of at least one network condition for the first network slice at a time in the future, receiving, from the mobile device, an indication of an updated resource need of the network connected application, and providing, to the mobile device, instructions for establishing a connection to the application server over a second network slice, where the second network slice is configured based on the updated resource need and a current set of network conditions.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2022Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Tan Xu, Rashmi Palamadai, Brian Novack, Eric Zavesky
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Patent number: 12082047Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining data pertaining to a communication service facilitated at least in part by a first gateway located in a building, the communication service involving at least a first user equipment, analyzing the data to determine that a processing load supported by the first gateway exceeds a first threshold, wherein the first threshold is expressed as a function of a capacity of the first gateway, resulting in a determination, and based on the determination, performing an action that causes the processing load supported by the first gateway to be reduced to a level that is less than the first threshold. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2022Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Zhengye Liu, Yali Liu, Jin Wang, Raghvendra Savoor
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Patent number: 12082106Abstract: Described is allocating and deallocating baseband unit resources of a distributed unit based on anticipated and/or actual demand for the resources. For example, when user equipment transitions to a connected state, a corresponding message can be detected and used to determine whether sufficient baseband unit resources are needed to handle the traffic of the newly connecting user equipment. If not, additional baseband unit resources are allocated. When user equipment transitions to an inactive state, the corresponding command can be detected and used to determine whether the baseband unit resources are still needed for other traffic. If not, baseband unit resources are deallocated; that is, if a distributed unit's resources are no longer needed, the distributed unit's resources are deactivated to reduce resource consumption. Deallocation can be performed by changing the resources to a power conservation (e.g., sleep) state, with allocation performed by changing such resources back to an active state.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2022Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Aleksandr Zelezniak, Kaustubh Joshi, Shankaranarayanan Puzhavakath Narayanan, Gueyoung Jung
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Patent number: 12079192Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device including a processing system including a processor; and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations of: receiving domain name system (DNS) record changes; identifying errors from the DNS record changes; discarding the DNS record changes responsive to the errors identified; scheduling the DNS record changes responsive to a lack of errors identified; translating the DNS record changes into protocol specific formats; and provisioning the protocol specific formats of the translated DNS record changes. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2022Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Lakshminarashimhan Naidu, Eric Ashby, Stephen Chou
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Patent number: 12081496Abstract: Aspects of the subject matter described herein are directed towards indicating to a wireless network device which time-division duplex slot patterns (slot formats) are supported by a user equipment device, e.g., which slot patterns have gone through interoperability and deployment testing (IODT) successfully with respect to the type of user equipment device. With the supported slot pattern information, the network can make an intelligent decision on scheduling downlink/uplink ratios, while selecting a slot pattern that the user equipment device is known to support. In one aspect, the technology adds a “Slot format IODTed” information element in the user equipment device capability information, which the network obtains when the user equipment device reports its capabilities to the network. In another aspect, the network can query the user equipment device for the supported slot format information.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2021Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Yupeng Jia, Hongyan Lei
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Patent number: 12082088Abstract: A mobile edge computing (MEC) service area can comprise radio cells/antennas connected to baseband units that are connected to service gateway (SGW) and/or packet data network gateway (PGW) user planes at a customer premises. The radio cells can be tagged with evolved universal mobile telecommunications system terrestrial radio access (E-UTRAN) cell global identifiers (EGCIs) offering traceability to user equipment (UE) that camp on them. The radio cells for MEC can be assigned tracking area codes (TACs) such that when a UE is registered and provisioned for a MEC service area based on an international mobile subscriber identity (IMSI) assigned to a subscriber identity module (SIM) of the UE, the UE can be determined to be at a geofenced area.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2021Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Emmanuel Etuke, Jitendra Patel, Nicholas Arconati, Ramesh Garapaty
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Patent number: 12081809Abstract: Concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to increasing misspelling, typographical, and partial search tolerance for search terms. A system can obtain media content metadata associated with media content. The system can identify a plurality of names within the media content metadata and remove a plurality of stop words from the media content metadata. The system can determine a plurality of unigrams and a plurality of bigrams from the media content metadata. The system can determine a plurality of misspellings of the media content metadata. The system can compile the plurality of names, the plurality of stop words, the plurality of unigrams, the plurality of bigrams, and the plurality of misspellings as results. The system can determine a plurality of incorrect search strings based upon the results and can create a dictionary including the plurality of incorrect search strings mapped to a plurality of correct search strings.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2021Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Sanjeev Misra, Ann Eileen Skudlark, Appavu Siva Prakasam
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Publication number: 20240292448Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, allocating a first plurality of combinations of frequency bands to a first group, allocating a second plurality of combinations of frequency bands to a second group, prioritizing the first group relative to the second group, and obtaining a connection request from a communication device in accordance with the prioritizing, wherein the connection request references a first combination of frequency bands included in the first plurality of combinations of frequency bands. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2023Publication date: August 29, 2024Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Hongyan Lei, Yupeng Jia
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Publication number: 20240292242Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, establishing a local area connection with one or more devices including a home gateway, the home gateway configured to access data services over a broadband network, receiving an indication that the data services over the broadband network are unavailable, initiating a cellular network connection with a cellular network using a Bootstrap embedded subscriber identity module (eSIM) service of the wireless device to access the cellular network, and providing backup data services to the one or more devices over the cellular network according to the Bootstrap eSIM service. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2023Publication date: August 29, 2024Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventor: Jason Sikes
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Publication number: 20240291752Abstract: A routing structure is defined for provider edge (PE) routers that will create the ability to recompute best paths based on application criteria. The routing structure may include the use of a network controller which is connected with the internet to receive requests from applications to trigger path re-computation. The controller will peer with PEs to send re-computation information used by the PE to construct an application-aware BGP table and forwarding instance. The PE also defines a new BGP and packet filter to replicate specific BGP paths into the application-aware table. The application-aware BGP and forwarding instance is unique to the requesting application. Thus, each request with a different source/destination combination obtains a discrete table providing separation. When a packet enters the PE from customer edge (CE) or core interface the packet traverses a packet filter that when matched against source/destination is redirected to the appropriate application-aware forwarding table.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2024Publication date: August 29, 2024Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Israel Means, Barry Elia
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Publication number: 20240290001Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving information about an augmented reality (AR) environment which includes a plurality of objects and a user participating in the AR environment, the user viewing the AR environment through a user equipment, receiving context information for the AR environment, identifying a diminished reality (DR) object of the plurality of objects, wherein the identifying is responsive to the context information, modifying the AR environment to render the DR object invisible to the user viewing the AR environment through user equipment, monitoring movement of one or more objects of the AR environment including the DR object, and modifying visibility of the DR object to the user viewing the AR environment through user equipment as a notification of a possible collision between the user and the DR object, wherein the modifying is responsive to detecting a risk of collision. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2024Publication date: August 29, 2024Applicants: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Mobility II LLCInventors: Terrel Michael LeCesne, Eric Zavesky, Jason Allen DeCuir, James H. Pratt
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Publication number: 20240291691Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving, over an uplink (UL) via a combination of coherent modular antenna arrays, first transmissions from a first user equipment (UE) and second transmissions from a second UE, wherein the first UE and the second UE are being served by the cell in multi-user (Mu)-multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) mode, determining, based on the first transmissions and the second transmissions, that a probability of the second UE interfering with the first UE in the UL satisfies a particular threshold, responsive to the determining, identifying an adjustment to an UL transmit power for the first UE, and causing the first UE to implement the adjustment to the UL transmit power. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2024Publication date: August 29, 2024Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventor: Ernest Tsui
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Publication number: 20240292221Abstract: Example mobile devices disclosed herein include a camera, memory including computer-executable instructions, and a processor to execute the instructions to at least associate a location of the mobile device with picture data obtained with the camera. The processor is also to assign a first data tag to the picture data when the location of the mobile device corresponds to a first area, the first data tag to identify a first security level for the picture data, or assign a second data tag to the picture data when the location of the mobile device does not correspond to the first area, the second data tag to identify a second security level for the picture data. The processor is further to determine whether to permit an application to access the picture data based on whether the first data tag or the second data tag is assigned to the picture data.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 3, 2024Publication date: August 29, 2024Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventor: Kaustubh Joshi