Patents Assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property
  • Patent number: 11026236
    Abstract: A more efficient over-the-air software push can be facilitated by leveraging a smart scheduling system for vehicles. The smart scheduling system can use location and network capacity data to prioritize over-the-air software pushes for vehicles. For instance, a vehicle, which is only operational during off-peak wireless network hours can receive a software push during the off-peak times because wireless network capacity is not an issue. However, vehicles, which are used primarily during heavy peak wireless network times can receive software in a prioritized manner based on location data, frequency of use, network capacity, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Lien Tran, Simon D. Byers, Carlos Eduardo De Andrade, Emir Halepovic, David John Poole, Christopher T. Volinsky
  • Patent number: 11025607
    Abstract: Concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to vehicle-to-everything (“V2X”) certificate management. According to one aspect of the concepts and technologies disclosed herein, a system can receive a CRL from a security credential management (“SCM”) system. The CRL can identify one or more certificates that have been determined to be invalid, such as when the certificate(s) has expired. The certificate(s) can be utilized by a vehicle for secure communications, including vehicle-to-vehicle (“V2V”) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (“V2I”) (collectively V2X). The system can format the CRL as a cell broadcast message. The system can then create a cell broadcast request directed to a cell broadcast center (“CBC”). The cell broadcast request can include the CRL formatted as the cell broadcast message. The system can send the cell broadcast request to the CBC to instruct the CBC to broadcast the CRL as the cell broadcast message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignees: AT&T Mobility II LLC, AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.
    Inventors: Murali Narayanan, Roger Mahler, Paul Nichols, George Murphy, Zachery Carter, Senthil Ramakrishnan, Thomas Becker
  • Patent number: 11025976
    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, the operations including: receiving an operational state of an audiovisual player of a client device, wherein the operational state comprises a foreground operational state or a background operational state; and sending an ad placement request comprising the operational state to a decision server for a content request for advertisement content. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Barry A. Smith, Jesse Forest, Przemyslaw Kamela, Rajesh Krishna
  • Patent number: 11025485
    Abstract: Methods, computer-readable media and devices are disclosed for selecting a plurality of network devices to perform a plurality of tasks in accordance with a set of functional network analytics instructions. For example, a processor deployed in a telecommunication network may receive a set of functional network analytics instructions compiled from a set of instructions in accordance with a functional network analytics platform application programming interface. The processor may further, in accordance with the set of functional network analytics instructions, select a plurality of network devices to perform a plurality of tasks, send the plurality of tasks to the plurality of network devices, receive control plane data from the plurality of network devices, correlate the control plane data in accordance with operations defined in the set of functional network analytics instructions to create resulting data, and forward the resulting data to at least one recipient device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Mostafa Tofighbakhsh, Hossein Besharatian
  • Patent number: 11025504
    Abstract: The described technology is generally directed towards an intent design tool for communication networks. A graphical user interface provided by the intent design tool can include a collection of communication network topology elements and a communication network intent topology design area. Selected communication network topology elements can be placed into the communication network intent topology design area, and connection types between the selected communication network topology elements can also be specified in the communication network intent topology design area, in order to define custom communication network intent topologies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Mostafa Tofighbakhsh, Shraboni Jana, Bogdan Ungureanu, Deva-Datta Sharma, Rittwik Jana
  • Patent number: 11025715
    Abstract: A method includes transmitting first data to a first cloud from a first device. The first data first data instructs the first cloud that a first item stored in the first cloud be made accessible to a second device via a second cloud that is coupled to the first cloud. The method further includes receiving second data from the first cloud at the first device. The second data is associated with a digital rights management restriction corresponding to a third item of the first cloud or the second cloud.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Soumyajit Chakraborty, James Gordon Beattie, Jr., Nicholas Bruno, Stephen J. Griesmer
  • Patent number: 11024162
    Abstract: A traffic management system that manages policy agreements between operators and visual indicator devices receives first sensor data from a physical environment. The traffic management system computationally processes the first sensor data to identify a first visual indication in the sensor data and determines that the first visual indication is associated with first policy agreement. The traffic management system then determines, based on the first sensor data, that a first visual indicator system that provided the first visual indication is violating a first policy included in the first policy agreement and, in response, provides a policy violation notification that the first visual indicator system is violating the first policy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Eric Zavesky, Jason Decuir, Robert David Gratz, Martin Patrick McEnroe
  • Patent number: 11026103
    Abstract: The described technology is generally directed towards machine learning deployment in radio access networks. A machine learning deployment pipeline can comprise a machine learning model design platform, a network automation platform, and a radio access network. Machine learning models can be designed at the machine learning model design platform, trained at the network automation platform, and deployed and used at the radio access network. The technology includes operations performed at each stage of the deployment pipeline in order to deploy machine learning models.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Dhruv Gupta, Rittwik Jana
  • Patent number: 11025604
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for providing access to a service are disclosed. An example apparatus includes at least one processor, and memory including machine readable instructions that, when executed, cause the at least one processor to perform operations including, in response to receipt of a first network communication, retrieve a first list identifying multicast group memberships of a device existing at a first time, the first list retrieved from a storage device based on an identifier in the first network communication, the first network communication including a second list identifying multicast group memberships of the device existing at a second time later than the first time. The device is authenticated based on a comparison of the first list to the second list. A second network communication is transmitted indicating the device has been authenticated in response to the authentication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Barrett Kreiner, Jonathan Reeves, Ryan Schaub
  • Patent number: 11025299
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, a coupler having a controller device; and a plurality of conductive members that each have a distal end, a proximal end, and a curved shape. Each of the plurality of conductive members can have an opening through a surface thereof, and each of the plurality of conductive members can be connected to the controller device. The distal end of each of the plurality of conductive members can be farther away from an outer surface of a transmission medium than the proximal end, and a width of each of the plurality of conductive members can increase in a direction from the proximal end to the distal end. The controller device can facilitate transmission of signals via the plurality of conductive members, and the signals can induce electromagnetic waves that propagate along the transmission medium without requiring an electrical return path. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Peter Wolniansky, Farhad Barzegar
  • Patent number: 11023862
    Abstract: A method includes receiving, at a messaging server from a first device associated with a first user, an update message to change a meeting from a first time to a second time. The message is directed to a second user. The method also includes, without receipt of a response to the update message from a device associated with the second user and in response to a current time being less than a particular time from the second time, selecting a set of devices associated with the second user and sending an alert regarding the meeting from the messaging server to each device of the set of devices. The set of devices identify devices that satisfy a device capability needed to participate in the meeting and that are currently available for use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Steven A. Siegel, Richard R. Erickson, Karen Mullis
  • Patent number: 11026122
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a process or apparatus for receiving, by a processing system including a processor, cell traffic reports for cells of a radio communication network, performing a reconfiguration analysis to identify reconfiguration information to reconfigure the radio communication network according to changing network conditions, and communicating the reconfiguration information defining a new cell configuration for the cells of the radio communication network and communicating information defining a new reconfiguration time for the cells to substantially synchronously switch to communicating according to the reconfiguration information. The receiving the cell traffic reports, the performing the reconfiguration analysis and the communicating the reconfiguration information occur in substantially real time. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: AT & T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Yu Zhou, Varun Gupta, Rittwik Jana, John Murray
  • Patent number: 11026144
    Abstract: Improved non-cellular (e.g., Wi-Fi) link integration with a cellular (e.g., LTE) network is described. The improved link integration can relate to utilizing an eNodeB device (e.g., residing in a radio access network portion of a cellular network) as an anchor point rather than a packet data network gateway device (e.g., residing in a core network portion of the cellular network) utilized by other approaches. The improved link integration can maintain full compliance with or support for other approaches, and can reduce signaling overhead, simplify quality-of-service management, and/or provide a more rapid reaction to changes of access, particularly in cases where the eNodeB device and a non-cellular access point device are co-located.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Lusheng Ji, Robert Raymond Miller, II, Bo Han
  • Patent number: 11025517
    Abstract: Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for a sensor web for Internet of Things (“IoT”) devices. According to one aspect disclosed herein, a system can monitor a health status of an IoT sensor device of a plurality of IoT sensor devices. The system can determine that the health status of the IoT sensor device indicates a sensor malfunction experienced by the IoT sensor device, and in response, can generate and send an alert to a forensic analytics module. The alert can identify the sensor malfunction. In response to the alert, the forensic analytics module can determine a last known location of the IoT sensor device. The system can obtain a set of satellite images of the last known location of the IoT sensor device, and can utilize the set of satellite images of the last known location to determine a cause of the sensor malfunction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Timothy Innes, Alexander MacDougall, Nigel Bradley, Bhumit Patel, Christopher Carl, David Spivey, Wasib Khallil
  • Patent number: 11025340
    Abstract: A dark fiber dense wavelength division multiplexing service path design microservice (ddSPDmS) can provide a scalable self-contained meta-data driven approach for a flexible implementation of a dark fiber dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) service path design solution. The service plan design solution can be used as a standalone solution or integrated with a network management application. In order to manage a large volume of circuit designs, multiple microservices can accept application program interface (API) requests in a cloud environment. Permission can then be given to any application to use the API to make a call to the design and inventory. Additionally, metadata templates can be designed to support a node, a link, and/or a topology for the microservices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Seyed Hashemi, Fariborz Farhan, Kumar Tamilmoni, Michael O'Connor, Taha Elkhatib, Wei Yen, Brian Horen, Veronica Gensamer
  • Publication number: 20210157286
    Abstract: Concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to automated control loop grading and data labeling (“ACLGDL”). According to one aspect disclosed herein, an ACLGDL system analyzes results of an execution, by a control loop system, of a control loop. The ACLGDL system can grade the results. The ACLGDL system also can instruct, based at least in part upon the grade of the results of the execution, the control loop system to collect additional data. The ACLGDL system can label the additional data for use by an output system. The ACLGDL system can establish plurality of policies including a grading-analysis policy, a grading-results policy, a labeling-collection policy, a labeling policy, a publishing policy, and a notification policy. The ACLGDL system can publish the data labeled in accordance with the labeling policy based, at least in part, upon the publishing policy. The ACLGDL system can notify the output system based, at least in part, upon the notification policy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Aaron, James Fan
  • Publication number: 20210160341
    Abstract: A content distribution network includes a first server in communication with an anycast server that provides content via a unicast signal, and with a multicast server that provides the content via a multicast signal. The first server is configured to receive a list of source addresses associated with the content, and to provide a metadata file including an anycast Internet protocol address of the anycast server from the list of source addresses as an Internet protocol address of the content in response to a first request for the content. When the number of client devices requesting the content exceeds a first threshold, the first server receives an updated list of sources including a multicast Internet protocol address of a multicast server, and provides the multicast Internet protocol address of the multicast server as the Internet protocol address of the content in the metadata file.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2021
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Han Q. Nguyen, Sunil Maloo, Douglas M. Nortz
  • Publication number: 20210160286
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, by a network controller and from a first node of a network, information associated with a data stream of the network and determining, by the network controller, a segmentation for the data stream. The segmentation includes a plurality of data segments and the plurality of data segments includes a first data segment. The method further includes determining, by the network controller, a data flow path for each of the plurality of data segments and determining, by the network controller, a first wavelength to assign to the first data segment. The first wavelength is one of a plurality of wavelengths spanning between the first node and a second node of the network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2021
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Stuart J. Williams, Allan Theall, Timothy Tuggle, Steven Axt, Charlton Gardiner, Kathleen Tse, John Humphries
  • Patent number: 11017170
    Abstract: Text can be encoded into DNA sequences. Each word from a document or other text sample can be encoded in a DNA sequence or DNA sequences and the DNA sequences can be stored for later retrieval. The DNA sequences can be stored digitally, or actual DNA molecules containing the sequences can be synthesized and stored. In one example, the encoding technique makes use of a polynomial function to transform words based on the Latin alphabet into k-mer DNA sequences of length k. Because the whole bits required for the DNA sequences are smaller than the actual strings of words, storing documents using DNA sequences may compress the documents relative to storing the same documents using other techniques. In at least one example, the mapping between words and DNA sequences is one-to-one and the collision ratio for the encoding is low.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventor: Changchuan Yin
  • Patent number: 11019401
    Abstract: A content signal switching controller receives first signal information about a first content signal provided by a first satellite antenna and received by a trunk distribution system. The first signal information indicates the quality of a satellite signal that is received by the first satellite antenna and that is converted to the first content signal. The content signal switching controller receives second signal information about a second content signal provided by a second satellite antenna. The second signal information indicates the quality of the satellite signal that is received by the second satellite antenna. In response to the content signal switching controller determining that the first signal information and the second signal information satisfy a first signal switching condition, a content signal switch instruction is provided to a switch device to switch the trunk distribution system from being provided the first content signal to being provided the second content signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Drew Chen, Richard Tatem, Dana Greer