Patents Assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property, II
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Patent number: 11817927Abstract: The technologies described herein are generally directed to preparing for a connection with a user equipment while the user equipment is in an idle state in a fifth generation (5G) network or other next generation networks. For example, a method described herein can include facilitating transmitting a signal directed by an antenna of base station equipment. The method can further include, facilitating receiving, from a user equipment, a message, wherein the message comprises feedback information describing receipt of the signal while the user equipment was in an idle mode at a location. Further, the method can comprise, based on the feedback information and the location, generating a model of signal propagation applicable to signals at the location.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2022Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignees: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P., AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY II, L.P., AT&T TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY, INC., AT&T Mobility II LLCInventors: Thomas Henderson, Kurt Huber, Daniel Vivanco, Julius Fodje
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Publication number: 20230239210Abstract: A device in an evolved packet core (EPC) which includes a processor and a memory. The processor effectuates operations including receiving from one or more devices residing within a customer premise equipment (CPE) portion of a telecommunications network, sensor data associated with one or more customers and in response to receiving the sensor data, generating a data request for an ecosystem status for the CPE portion of the telecommunications network. The processor further effectuates operations including obtaining customer information for the one or more customers and creating an analytics environment, using the customer information, for the one or more customers. The processor further effectuates operations including performing, within the analytics environment, analytics on the sensor data to determine a state of the CPE portion of the telecommunications network for the one or more customers and in response to performing analytics on the sensor data, optimizing the telecommunications network.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2023Publication date: July 27, 2023Applicants: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P., AT&T Mobility II LLCInventors: Arturo Maria, Jeffrey Joseph Farah
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Patent number: 11689447Abstract: A communication session may be broken up into many smaller packet bundles over many tunnels and over different routes in order to obfuscate the entire data stream. Apparatuses may dynamically build hop-by-hop tunnels in a backbone telecommunications network, segment data into packet bundles at the customer edge, or break up data traffic of a communication session along multiple routing or switching paths in order to obfuscate the data traffic of the communication session.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2020Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignees: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P., AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY II, L.P.Inventors: Stuart J. Williams, Timothy Tuggle, James Thompson, Jimmy Slagle, Mary Phillips, James Wall
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Publication number: 20230179398Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining, from a user device, a master-slave agreement and a first network configuration for a federated blockchain network, transmitting to a cloud service provider (CSP) node the first network configuration, generating first credentials, and transmitting the first credentials to the CSP node. The CSP node configures a first group of blockchain nodes according to the first network configuration and the first credentials. Further embodiments include transmitting the first credentials to a public server that sends it to a public blockchain node and an indication to generate a portion of the federated blockchain network. The public blockchain node configures a second group of blockchain nodes according to a second network configuration based on a public blockchain smart contract. The federated blockchain network comprises the first group of blockchain nodes and the second group of blockchain nodes. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2023Publication date: June 8, 2023Applicants: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.Inventors: Thyge Knuhtsen, Rod Cruz, Humayun Arif, Rene Dufrene
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Publication number: 20230171266Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining data that identifies network traffic associated with a threat actor, responsive to the obtaining the data, performing feature extraction on the data, resulting in extracted features, classifying the network traffic based on the extracted features, detecting, in accordance with the classifying the network traffic, an action change in the network traffic, resulting in a detected action change, predicting a future traffic profile for the threat actor based on the detected action change, and responsive to the predicting the future traffic profile, generating an alert regarding the future traffic profile, thereby enabling mitigation of a security risk associated with the threat actor. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 26, 2021Publication date: June 1, 2023Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.Inventors: James Brunner, Laurie Kraus, Christopher Iverson, James Cignarella, Krissa Van Hoorebeke
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Patent number: 11657705Abstract: Concepts and technologies directed to an integrated telecommunications roadside unit for supporting vehicle-to-everything (“V2X”) communications are disclosed herein. Embodiments of an integrated telecommunications roadside unit can include a processor and a memory that store computer-executable instructions that configure a processor to perform operations. The operations can include intercepting a vehicle-to-vehicle communication that is provided from a first vehicle to a second vehicle. The vehicle-to-vehicle communication can be transmitted using a direct transmission mode. The operations can further include encapsulating the vehicle-to-vehicle communication in a user plane package. The operations can also include routing the user plane package to a destination network access node, where the destination network access node is outside of a direct communication range corresponding to the first vehicle and the second vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2021Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignees: AT&T Mobility II LLC, AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.Inventors: Zachery Carter, Roger Mahler, Erie Lai Har Lau, Sangar Dowlatkhah
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Publication number: 20230155991Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, processing data resulting from an execution of a plurality of different applications to identify at least one notification that is to be provided to a user of a client device, identifying criteria associated with the user, the criteria including a role of the user within an organization and a preference of the user, determining a characteristic associated with the at least one notification based on the identifying of the criteria, and providing the at least one notification having the characteristic to the client device. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2021Publication date: May 18, 2023Applicants: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.Inventors: Lars Benjamin Johnson, Umayal Roja Swarnam
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Publication number: 20230104606Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, transmitting, by a processing system including a processor, a request for attention, wherein the processing system stores first data pertaining to a first user, receiving, by the processing system and based on the transmitting of the request for attention, a key from a second processing system including a second processor, based on the receiving of the key, identifying, by the processing system, a first portion of the first data to be transmitting to the second processing system, wherein the first portion of the first data is less than an entirety of the first data, and based on the identifying of the first portion of the first data, transmitting, by the processing system, the first portion of the first data to the second processing system. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2021Publication date: April 6, 2023Applicants: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.Inventors: Lars Benjamin Johnson, Umayal Roja Swarnam
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Patent number: 11611611Abstract: A system and method for delivering an event from an event publisher to an event subscriber via an event broker are disclosed. The event broker performs several functions such as receiving an event published by an event publisher of a first domain, assigning a priority based on a second domain to a plurality of subscribers of the second domain, processing the event based on a rule and the priority, and further delivering the event published by the event publisher of the first domain to the plurality of event subscribers of the second domain in accordance with the priority.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2021Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.Inventors: Hossein Eslambolchi, John R. McCanuel, Prakash Vasa
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Patent number: 11606191Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining, from a user device, a master-slave agreement and a first network configuration for a federated blockchain network, transmitting to a cloud service provider (CSP) node the first network configuration, generating first credentials, and transmitting the first credentials to the CSP node. The CSP node configures a first group of blockchain nodes according to the first network configuration and the first credentials. Further embodiments include transmitting the first credentials to a public server that sends it to a public blockchain node and an indication to generate a portion of the federated blockchain network. The public blockchain node configures a second group of blockchain nodes according to a second network configuration based on a public blockchain smart contract. The federated blockchain network comprises the first group of blockchain nodes and the second group of blockchain nodes. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2019Date of Patent: March 14, 2023Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.Inventors: Thyge Knuhtsen, Rod Cruz, Humayun Arif, Rene Dufrene
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Patent number: 11503111Abstract: Global Internet of things (IoT) quality of service (QoS) is provided through self-forming, self-healing, and/or collaborative edge IoT gateways. Moreover, global IoT services are provided by logically extending cellular networks with roaming partners to backhaul, track, and/or manage the globally deployed edge IoT gateways. In one aspect, real-time QoS and/or monitoring capabilities for the global IoT services can be provided through a communication between the edge IoT gateways and an edge gateway controller deployed within a cloud. The edge IoT gateways form a structured mesh network to coordinate workload execution under control of the edge gateway controller, which can facilitate a highly efficient QoS and/or SLA management for mobile IoT sensors, to provide a secure monitoring and/or diagnostic capability for the global IoT services.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2021Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignees: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P., AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY II, L.P.Inventors: Mostafa Tofighbakhsh, Vinay Kundaje
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Patent number: 11488722Abstract: Systems and methods mediate anomaly notifications in health data to health alerts using data structures and logic to organize, contain, and dispose of identified health anomalies. Multiple detection algorithms, operating asynchronously and independently, run against one or more health data streams. Examples of data streams are electronic laboratory requisitions and results, OTC sales of medicines and medical supplies, emergency department visit data, and others. The outputs of anomaly detection generators—anomaly notifications (anomalies)—are processed by the invention. The case manager organizes anomaly notifications and supports collaborative decision making and disposition among expert users.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2019Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.Inventors: Colin Goodall, Guy Jacobson, Simon Tse, John Mark F. Mocenigo, Richard Drechsler
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Patent number: 11457102Abstract: Fault-tolerant signaling in a Long Term Evolution (LTE) network architecture is disclosed. A method can comprise initiating a primary signaling path to a signaling server device; in response to the initiating, establishing an alternate signaling path to a web application server device, wherein a call session is established over the primary signaling path; monitoring the primary signaling path for a session failure; and in response to the session failure, switching the call session from using the primary signaling path to using the alternate signaling path.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2021Date of Patent: September 27, 2022Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P., AT&T Global Network Services France SASInventors: Miguel Martinez-Heath, Keylor Eng, Aurelien Bruno, Scott Sayers
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Patent number: 11445422Abstract: In one example, a method includes monitoring conditions in a telecommunication service provider network, selecting a first path by which to connect a communication session between a first endpoint and a second endpoint, wherein the first path is a path through the network that is expected to satisfy a predefined level of performance for the communication session based on the conditions, connecting the first endpoint and the second endpoint via the first path, detecting a change in the conditions that results in the first path failing to satisfy the predefined level of performance, selecting a second path by which to connect the communication session, wherein the second path is a path through the network that is expected to satisfy the predefined level of performance for the communication session based on the conditions as changed, and initiating a handoff of the communication session from the first path to the second path.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2018Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Global Network Services France, SAS, AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.Inventors: Miguel R. Martinez-Heath, Aurélien Bruno, Scott Sayers, Keylor Eng
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Patent number: 11438059Abstract: An improved technique for acoustic sensing involves, in one embodiment, launching into a medium, a plurality of groups of pulse-modulated electromagnetic-waves. The frequency of electromagnetic waves in a pulse within a group differs from the frequency of the electromagnetic waves in another pulse within the group. The energy scattered by the medium is detected and, in one embodiment, the beat signal may be used to determine a characteristic of the environment of the medium. For example, if the medium is a buried optical fiber into which light pulses have been launched in accordance with the invention, the presence of acoustic waves within the region of the buried fiber can be detected.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2021Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.Inventors: Andrew Lewis, Stuart Russell
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Patent number: 11431703Abstract: A biometric authentication system is disclosed that provides authentication capability using biometric data in connection with a challenge for parties engaging in digital communications such as digital text-oriented, interactive digital communications. End-user systems may be coupled to devices that include biometric data capture devices such as retina scanners, fingerprint recorders, cameras, microphones, ear scanners, DNA profilers, etc., so that biometric data of a communicating party may be captured and used for authentication purposes.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2019Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.Inventors: Pradeep K. Bansal, Lee Begeja, Carroll W. Creswell, Jeffrey Farah, Benjamin J. Stern, Jay Wilpon
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Patent number: 11431409Abstract: An improved technique for acoustic sensing involves, in one embodiment, launching into a medium, a plurality of groups of pulse-modulated electromagnetic-waves. The frequency of electromagnetic waves in a pulse within a group differs from the frequency of the electromagnetic waves in another pulse within the group. The energy scattered by the medium is detected and, in one embodiment, may be used to determine a characteristic of the environment of the medium. For example, if the medium is a buried optical fiber into which light pulses have been launched in accordance with the invention, the presence of acoustic waves within the region of the buried fiber can be detected.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2021Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.Inventors: Justin Hayward, Andrew B. Lewis, Stuart Russell
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Patent number: 11381408Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, determining content information associated with participant information from a plurality of data channels associated with a plurality of participants in a communications session, modifying the participant information responsive to identifying non-conforming participant information, generating categorized participant information according to the content information associated with the participant information from the plurality of data channels, aggregating, by the processing system, the categorized participant information from the plurality of data channels to generate group information, sending the group information to a common data channel, wherein the common data channel is presented to each participant of the plurality of participants in the communications session, and sending a first notification to a first participant via a first data channel of the plurality of data channels responsive to identifying an involvement level associated with the firType: GrantFiled: June 27, 2019Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.Inventors: Mostafa Tofighbakhsh, Vinay Kundaje
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Publication number: 20220059204Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method in which a processing system receives biometric data indicating a condition of a patient, and executes a blockchain application; the blockchain application facilitates communication between the processing system and a peer node associated with a distributed ledger, and the peer node comprises a smart contract for analyzing the biometric data. The processing system analyzes, in accordance with the smart contract, the biometric data to assess the condition of the patient; the analyzing includes comparing a value of a health metric in the biometric data with an expected value. The method further includes generating a notice regarding the condition of the patient, directed to at least one of the patient, a caregiver for the patient, or a physician. The method also includes accessing the distributed ledger to provide an update regarding the condition of the patient. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2020Publication date: February 24, 2022Applicants: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.Inventors: Umayal Roja Swarnam, Lars Benjamin Johnson, Michael Quartz Iapalucci
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Publication number: 20220038458Abstract: Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for multifactor authentication for Internet-of-things devices. An access request can be received from an Internet-of-things device. The access request can include identifying information associated with the Internet-of-things device and a certificate. The certificate can be validated and a stored version of the identifying information can be obtained. If the stored version of the identifying information is determined to match the identifying information included with the access request, access to a resource can be allowed.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2021Publication date: February 3, 2022Applicants: AT&T Mobility II LLC, AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.Inventors: Russell Vegh, Senthil Ramakrishnan, Roger Mahler