Patents Assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property
  • Publication number: 20240177173
    Abstract: Concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to interpretation workflows for machine learning-enabled event tree-based diagnostic and customer problem resolution. According to one aspect, a system can receive a workflow construction specification derived from a machine learning-enabled event tree (“MLET”). The MLET can be generated for use by a customer service agent to resolve a customer problem. The workflow construction specification can include a plurality of objects, each of which represents a navigation path through the MLET. The system can traverse the workflow construction specification and can create a set of workflow creation commands based upon at least one policy. The system can generate a workflow visualization interpretation file based upon the set of workflow creation commands. The workflow visualization interpretation file can identify how the MLET derived a root cause of the customer problem.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2024
    Publication date: May 30, 2024
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: James Fan, Al Hooshiari, Dan Celenti, Eric Forbes
  • Publication number: 20240173628
    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 of: receiving a request from a first user of an electronic event to invoke a surrogate to control an avatar of the first user; retrieving data describing characteristics of the surrogate; and altering a presentation of the avatar for the first user made to a second user, wherein the data describing characteristics of the surrogate is used to alter the presentation of the avatar. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Publication date: May 30, 2024
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Rashmi Palamadai, Richard Palazzo, Eric Zavesky, Oliver Spatscheck, Ari Craine, Robert Koch
  • Publication number: 20240173617
    Abstract: 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 a request for a proxy player to continue gameplay on behalf of a player of a game; retrieving data describing characteristics of historical gameplay of the player; and continuing the gameplay by the proxy player, wherein the proxy player performs actions that emulate the player based on the data describing the characteristics of the historical gameplay of the player. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Publication date: May 30, 2024
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Rashmi Palamadai, Eric Zavesky, Oliver Spatscheck, Ari Craine, Richard Palazzo, Robert Koch
  • Publication number: 20240173867
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method in which a processing system allocates resources of a smart community to respond to an event; the resources include robots in smart homes of the smart community having smart home controllers, and each robot includes a first group of software modules comprising a first personality of that robot. The method also includes informing the smart home controllers regarding tasks to be performed by the robots, where each robot changes to a second personality to perform the response at least in part; the second personality includes a second group of software modules, and each of the robots informs the smart home controller associated with the robot regarding the second personality. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Publication date: May 30, 2024
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Zhi Cui, Paul Edward Smith, JR., Venson Shaw
  • Patent number: 11997647
    Abstract: Facilitating device contexts, operational modes, and policy driven enhancements for paging in advanced networks (e.g., 4G, 5G, 6G, and beyond) is provided herein. Operations of a network device can comprise analyzing a group of contextual data for a user equipment device, and mobility management behaviors historically implemented for the user equipment device and based on an indication that a page request is scheduled to be sent to the user equipment device. The operations can also comprise configuring a paging message for the user equipment device based on the contextual data and the mobility management behaviors. Further, the operations can comprise sending the paging message to the user equipment device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Rajendra Prasad Kodaypak, Ryan Redfern, Jiansong Wang
  • Patent number: 11997753
    Abstract: Electronic subscriber identity modules (eSIM) can be more susceptible to hackers and more vulnerable than physical subscriber identity modules. The current disclosure discusses systems and methods to facilitate eSIM security by utilizing a management software application (MSA) hosted on a mobile device. This MSA can cross-reference eSIM registration data with mobile device signature data to determine if the correct user identity is associated with mobile device prior to an eSIM being issued to the mobile device. Additionally, various degrees of data flagging can be utilized to allow an end user to properly address an indication of mobile device vulnerability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventor: Joseph Soryal
  • Patent number: 11997567
    Abstract: An evolved multimedia broadcast multicast services (eMBMS) core may map sensor data or telemetry data from a central repository server (e.g., tag it with an area code from where the data is being generated) to a service area. The eMBMS core may inform the radio access network to create a service area for the specific area code, which may be part of or an entire city, county, or the like. Then the radio access network may broadcast the data to the vehicles or devices in the specific area code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventor: Sreejith Menon
  • Patent number: 11997578
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving, over a network from a plurality of mobile devices via a plurality of installed SDKs, sensor data captured by one or more sensors of the plurality of mobile devices, where the sensor data includes geomagnetic data captured within a particular building; providing, over the network, the sensor data to a geomagnetic mapping server to enable generation of a geomagnetic footprint for the particular building that is aggregated with indoor mapping data for the particular building and stored as a map in a mapping repository; and providing, over the network, the map of the particular building to a communication device for presentation at the communication device along with real-time locations of first responders in the particular building, where the real-time locations are determined according to real-time sensor data including real-time geomagnetic data captured by sensors of the first responders. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: David Hildebrant, Mingwun Li, Shih-Ming Wang
  • Patent number: 11997756
    Abstract: The disclosed technology is directed towards detecting improbable speeds of a mobile device, which can indicate fraudulent activity with respect to the mobile device. Radio access network events and call detail records are processed to determine when a mobile device “travel jumps” between locations at improbable speeds. Events corresponding to handovers between adjacent cells are filtered out. For events corresponding to changed cell towers that are non-adjacent, further processing is performed to determine the speed of the mobile device travel between the cells. A first speed threshold is selected based on possible air travel (a cell near an airport) or a second non-air travel speed threshold is selected. If the speed of the mobile device exceeds the selected speed threshold, a travel jump is determined. Exceptions can be made for gaps in connectivity due to topography (known inconsistent reception areas) and for a mobile device shutting down and restarting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Yaron Koral, Lauro Lins
  • Patent number: 11996958
    Abstract: Identifying a coherence time associated with a user equipment (UE) and a coherence bandwidth associated with the UE, determining a coherence block based on the coherence time and the coherence bandwidth, determining whether the coherence block satisfies a threshold, based on a first determination that the coherence block satisfies the threshold, employing a plurality of modular antenna arrays in multi-user (Mu)-multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) for the UE, and, based on a second determination that the coherence block does not satisfy the threshold, employing the plurality of modular antenna arrays in single-user (Su)-MIMO for the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventor: Ernest Tsui
  • Patent number: 11995220
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, identifying, during a CPU's execution of a first program, a branching instruction of the first program that redirects execution to a second program. Responsive to the identifying of the branching instruction, a return address of a next instruction of the first program is encrypted. The encrypted return address is transferred to the second program without the CPU retaining a record of the return address. The encrypted return address is received from the second program responsive to its completion of execution. The received encrypted return address is decrypted to obtain the return address enabling a resumption of execution of the first program from the next instruction. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: William C. Cottrill, Sheldon Kent Meredith, Peter Hardie
  • Patent number: 11995739
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Terrel Michael LeCesne, Eric Zavesky, Jason Allen DeCuir, James H. Pratt
  • Patent number: 11997041
    Abstract: An early termination system for blind decoding is provided to decrease the computational resources utilized when decoding the physical resources, and decrease the time spent decoding. A blind decoding priority list can be used by the mobile device to preferentially decode specific physical resource elements as it specifies the order of all the candidate physical downlink control channels (PDCCHs). When the physical resource elements are decoded, if there is no more downlink control information in that transmission time interval, the downlink control information can include a termination bit, and the mobile device, upon identifying the termination bit can cease blind decoding of the remainder candidates. In this way, the blind decoding process more quickly identifies the downlink control information, and subsequent blind decoding is halted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Xiaoyi Wang, Ralf Bendlin, Arunabha Ghosh, SaiRamesh Nammi
  • Patent number: 11996888
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, causing, by a processing system including a processor, a first optical signal to be conveyed within a first communication device from a first component of the first communication device to a second component of the first communication device via a first fiber including a first hollow core fiber, and causing, by the processing system, the first optical signal to be transmitted from the first communication device to a second communication device via a second fiber. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Ricky Perry, Abdellah Tazi
  • Patent number: 11997583
    Abstract: A software defined network (SDN) can add network repository functions (NRF) into a configurations database to enable NF discovery. The SDN can subscribe to NRF notifications to receive new cloud native functions (CNF), registrations, or any other update to the CNF status in 5G system. In addition to listening to NRF notifications, the SDN can implement CNF pooling processes to periodically retrieve CNF from an NRF repository and stay in sync with 5G systems. Thus, a deep service path discovery can be developed from network service configurations and container call flows to enable an accurate alarm correlation and troubleshooting for the operations. This service path deep discovery can be designed and implemented as a standalone system or in an SDN framework with integration of a container management framework such as K8 kubernetes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Seyed Hashemi, Abbas Kiani
  • Publication number: 20240169051
    Abstract: The concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to providing a split ledger for securing extended reality (“XR”) environments. According to one aspect, an XR server computer can create an XR environment. The XR server computer can cause a passed ledger to be populated with an environment ID associated with the XR environment. The XR server computer can cause a hash ledger to be populated with a first hash of the environment ID. The XR server computer can register a user for participating in the XR environment and can cause the passed ledger to be populated with a user-created block associated with the user. The XR server computer can cause the hash ledger to be further populated with a second hash of the user-created block. The XR server computer can allow a user avatar associated with the user to join the XR environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2022
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Wei Wang, Lars Johnson, Mikhail Istomin, Rachel Rosencrantz
  • Publication number: 20240165815
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, determining, by a robot of a group of robots, a condition of the robot to obtain a determined result. A corrective plan is identified responsive to the determined result indicating a deficiency and a determination is made as to whether the robot is configured to perform the corrective plan. The corrective plan is executed responsive to a determination that the robot is configured to perform the corrective plan. Alternatively, assistance of a robot controller is requested responsive to the determining indicating the robot is not configured to perform the corrective plan. The robot controller is requested to initiate performance of the corrective plan. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2022
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Zhi Cui, Paul Edward Smith, JR., Venson Shaw
  • Publication number: 20240172073
    Abstract: The disclosed technology is directed towards preventing a handover of a Wi-Fi call to a Fifth Generation (5G) standalone cellular network. In one alternative, a 5G standalone usage setting is disabled on a mobile device when Wi-Fi calling is enabled on the mobile device. In another alternative, a 5G standalone usage setting is disabled on a mobile device when Wi-Fi calling is enabled on the mobile device and the mobile device is connected to a Wi-Fi network, which facilitates camping on a 5G standalone network when the mobile device is not connected to a Wi-Fi network. In yet another alternative, a 5G standalone usage setting is disabled on a mobile device when an evolved packet data gateway (ePDG) tunnel is set up on the mobile device, which similarly facilitates camping on a 5G standalone network when the ePDG tunnel is torn down.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2024
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Hugh Shieh, William Rosenberg, Arnold Schrider
  • Publication number: 20240169598
    Abstract: Concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to data transport compression and reduction based upon intra-content user focus. In one aspect disclosed herein, a device, such as an extended reality (“XR”) headset, can determine an intra-content focus area of a user viewing a display. The device can provide the intra-content focus area to a content server, which can determine a content portion associated with the intra-content focus area. The device can receive, from the content server, the content portion associated with the intra-content focus area. The device can present, via the display, the content portion to be viewed by the user. Moreover, the concepts and technologies disclosed herein can also take advantage of content pooling effects and save bandwidth for a population of users given a Pareto distribution of their viewing distribution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2022
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Lucus Haugen, Jianlei Zhang
  • Publication number: 20240171508
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device comprising: 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 comprising: obtaining a first indication of a first decision to communicate with a first communication device via a wired network endpoint of a wired communication system, the first communication device being in communication with a base station of a wireless communication system at a time of a making of the first decision, the base station being configured for first communications with a network transport layer via a first link and the wired network endpoint being configured for second communications with the network transport layer via a second link; responsive to the obtaining the first indication, changing in a route information listing a first latency value for the first link, the first latency value being changed from a first original v
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Zhi Cui, John B. Bartell, Hongyan Lei, Paul Edward Smith, JR., Venson Shaw