Patents Assigned to Intellectual Property, LLC
  • Publication number: 20250110509
    Abstract: Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing mobile integrated field-deployed task-based equipment automation system. In various embodiments, a system includes autonomous mobile field equipment systems, an equipment transport system, and a system orchestrator. The system orchestrator is configured to deploy, control, and coordinate the equipment transport system to transport, load, deploy, and receive autonomous mobile field equipment systems, and configured to deploy, control, and coordinate each autonomous mobile field equipment systems to perform the tasks within a deployment location. Each autonomous mobile field equipment system includes a propulsion system, a set(s) of task-based actuators, sensors, a computing system, a communications system, and a power supply system. The set(s) of task-based actuators is configured to perform a set of tasks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2024
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Applicant: CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC
    Inventor: William R. Benassi
  • Publication number: 20250113165
    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 smart contract for tracking a position of a mobile device from a quantum blockchain; issuing a token uniquely identifying location data for the position of the mobile device; receiving location data including the token from the mobile device, wherein the position of the mobile device is determined by displacement from an initial position using a quantum accelerometer; verifying the location data using the token; and storing the location data in the quantum blockchain. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2024
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Applicants: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Thomas J. Routt, Mark Stockert
  • Patent number: 12265449
    Abstract: Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing software-based network probes for monitoring network devices for fault management. In various embodiments, a computing system may receive, from at least one software-based network probe, a first alert associated with a first device among layer 4 devices disposed in a plurality of networks; may parse and store first alert data from the received first alert in a database, in a standardized format; may perform, using an enrichment system, enrichment of the first alert data, by retrieving first enrichment data from one or more second databases and adding the first enrichment data to the parsed and formatted first alert data in the first database to form first consolidated alert data; and may send the first consolidated alert data to a fault management system for display to a user to facilitate addressing of the first alert by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignees: Level 3 Communications, LLC, CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC
    Inventors: Steve Toms, David Sutton, Wayne L. Williams, Binu Baby, Nashat Saqqa, Amer Khan, Pranit Ambardekar, Ranjith Kumar Nooka, Mark Chase, Keith Sebesta, Tim W. Kimpton, Shelley Goldner, Shelli L. Hurd
  • Patent number: 12261752
    Abstract: Customer premises equipment, such as a gateway device, for making a connection to an Internet service provider (ISP) may on occasion be defective or improperly set up, and in such circumstances remote troubleshooting by a technician employed by the Internet service provider may be hampered by the absence of a connection to the customer premises equipment. As such, a system and method for providing a secondary link to customer premises equipment are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC
    Inventors: John R. B. Woodworth, Dean Ballew
  • Patent number: 12259900
    Abstract: Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing off-chain functionality for data contained in blocks of blockchain. In various embodiments, a computing system might assemble data extracted from each block of a first block(s) of a first instance of a blockchain in a generated first file(s), the assembled data being organized to mirror how the data is organized and stored in the first block(s); might store, in a secure database, the first file(s), the first file(s) being configured to be content-searchable, content-sortable, and/or content-filterable; might generate a second instance of the blockchain, which contains one or more second blocks, the one or more second blocks each containing the hash value of each corresponding first block(s), without containing the data contained in each block of the first block(s); and might store, in a distributed peer data storage system of the blockchain system, the generated second instance of the blockchain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC
    Inventors: Stephen Opferman, William R. Benassi, James P. Gately
  • Patent number: 12257814
    Abstract: A method may include forming a mat including paper fragments, plastic fragments, and top and bottom outer surface layers, wherein the outer surface layers have maximum processing temperature values and consolidating the formed mat in a continuous hot press including three pairs of opposing top and bottom heating platens. A first pair of heating platens has a first heating power. A second pair of heating platens has a second, lower heating power. A third pair of heating platens has a third, even lower heating power. The method may include consolidating the formed mat in a continuous cold press including three pairs of opposing top and bottom heating platens. A first pair of cooling platens has a first cooling power. A second pair of cooling platens has a second, lower cooling power. A third pair of cooling platens and has a third, even lower cooling power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Continuus Materials Intellectual Property, LLC
    Inventors: Jack G. Winterowd, Matt Spencer, Marko Suput, Kasey Fisher
  • Publication number: 20250095835
    Abstract: Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing home health monitoring of patients via extension of healthcare system network into customer premises. In various embodiments, a computing system might receive, wirelessly from a data collector assigned to a patient, collected patient data obtained by a patient device(s) associated with the patient. The computing system and/or a management console might establish a network transport link between the computing system and a healthcare data system that is accessible by a healthcare provider(s), and might send the patient data over the network transport link to the healthcare data system. The management console might store the patient data in a portion of the healthcare data system that is allocated to information regarding the patient, wherein the network transport link is configured as a one-way link that prevents access to any data stored in the healthcare data system via the one-way link.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Applicant: CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC
    Inventor: Ronald A. Lewis
  • Publication number: 20250086510
    Abstract: Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing Inference as a Service. In various embodiments, a computing system may receive a request to perform an AI/ML task on first data, the request including desired parameters, in some cases, without information regarding any of specific hardware, specific hardware type, specific location, or specific network for providing network services for performing the requested AI/ML task. The computing system may identify edge compute nodes within a network based on the desired parameters and/or unused processing capacity of each node. The computing system may identify AI/ML pipelines capable of performing the AI/ML task, the pipelines including neural networks utilizing pre-trained AI/ML models. The computing system may cause the identified nodes to run the identified pipelines to perform the AI/ML task.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2024
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Applicant: CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC
    Inventors: Kevin M. McBride, Sotiri Terry Barbounis, Scott Brindamour, Charles Stallings, John R.B. Woodworth, Dean Ballew, Brian J. Strong, Frank Moss
  • Publication number: 20250088387
    Abstract: Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing DyCon IPVPN functionalities. In various embodiments, a DyCon IPVPN system includes a gateway device, a plurality of orchestrators, and a plurality of task managers. The gateway device is configured to request an orchestrator from an orchestrator factory based on data contained in a request to perform a network provisioning service; and to instruct the orchestrator to perform the network provisioning service. The orchestrator is configured to request a task manager from a task factory based on a task type associated with a first task among one or more DyCon IPVPN tasks associated with the network provisioning service; and to instruct the task manager to perform the first task. The task manager is configured to perform at least one of creating the first task, triggering execution of the first task, or updating the first task, and/or the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2024
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Applicant: CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC
    Inventors: Wen Wang, Boris Abramovich, Syed Hussain Haider
  • Publication number: 20250088419
    Abstract: A method for controlling deployment of network configuration changes includes receiving, by centralized network management system executed by a processor and memory, configuration change instructions to alter a configuration of a network; computing, by the centralized network management system, a weighted impact of the configuration change instructions; determining, by the centralized network management system, whether the weighted impact of the configuration change instructions exceeds a threshold impact level; and in response to determining that the weighted impact does not exceed the threshold impact level, executing the configuration change instructions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2024
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Applicant: CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC
    Inventors: John R.B. Woodworth, Dean Ballew
  • Patent number: 12246471
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a roof cover board and a method of manufacturing an improved cover board product. The method includes receiving waste materials or first use materials, the waste materials or first use materials containing a mixture of cellulose, plastic and other materials; separating the cellulose and the plastic from the mixture; shredding the separated cellulose using a first shredder into a stream of cellulose and shredding the separated plastic using a second shredder into a stream of plastic; selecting a cellulose to plastic ratio from a plurality of cellulose to plastic ratios; metering shredded cellulose from the stream of cellulose and shredded plastic from the stream of plastic according to the selected cellulose to plastic ratio; mixing the metered shredded cellulose and plastic; forming said mixture into a mat; and consolidating the mat into a finished good using heat and pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: CONTINUUS MATERIALS INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, LLC
    Inventors: Kasey Fisher, Marko Suput, Matthew Spencer, Jack G. Winterowd
  • Patent number: 12247398
    Abstract: A method may include placing a bottom facer on a conveyor, placing a core layer on the bottom facer placing a top facer on the core layer, and pressing the bottom facer, the core layer, and the top facer in a hot press to form a panel, wherein the hot press causes the bottom facer to shrink relative to the top facer, introducing a warp into the panel such that, when installed, the warp compensates for an installation warp and the panel is flat upon installation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: CONTINUUS MATERIALS INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, LLC
    Inventors: Jack G. Winterowd, Matthew Spencer, Marko Suput
  • Patent number: 12250251
    Abstract: Novel tools and techniques for providing an in-line AI virtual assistant are provided. A system includes a session border controller coupled to an end-user device, and a session initiation protocol stack. The session initiation protocol stack includes a processor, and non-transitory computer readable media comprising instructions executable by the processor to: receive, from the session border controller, a call invite request; provision, via the AI virtual assistant service, an AI virtual assistant instance in response to the call invite request; and join the AI virtual assistant instance to a call with the end-user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC
    Inventors: Steven M. Casey, Stephen Opferman, Felipe Castro, Jeff Leonard
  • Patent number: 12244774
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes providing end-to-end call identity validation of a forwarded call. Identity information associated with a received call invite may be temporarily stored and reused for the forwarded call when a determination is made that the called party is likely to forward the call. If the inbound call is diverted (forwarded) by the called device, a call invite comprising an indication that the invite has been diverted (forwarded) by the called device may be received. The system may match data associated with the diverted call invite with the stored identity information. In some examples, the SHAKEN identity header and SHAKEN token is stored and may be attached to the diverted call invite. DIV authentication may then be performed, and the diverted call invite comprising SHAKEN and DIV identity headers may be provided to the forward-to destination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC
    Inventor: Joseph Scivicque
  • Patent number: 12245148
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, an AT command that allows an application service provider to modify suspend/resume (S/R) and/or deactivate/activate (D/A) functionality specified in one or more elementary files of a UICC. The S/R and/or D/A functionality can be influenced by the application service provider without relying on SIM-OTA messages being forwarded by a mobile operator. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Carl Martin, II, Robert Holden
  • Patent number: 12244471
    Abstract: Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing easy digital subscriber line (“DSL”) signal detection. In various embodiments, after a connector of a signal detector has been inserted into a network service port, a processor of the signal detector may determine whether a pilot tone is present on at least one signal wire communicatively coupled to the network service port, the pilot tone being indicative of network service being ready for provision via the at least one signal wire. If so, the processor of the signal detector may cause a display device to indicate to a user that the network service port is ready to provide the network service. A modem can then be installed by connecting with the network service port. The connector, the processor, and the display device are integrated within a single, compact, handheld form factor of the signal detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC
    Inventors: Anthony M. Bieniek, Brian E. Bond
  • Publication number: 20250071011
    Abstract: A system and method for mitigating anomalies in a network device. One or a combination of mitigation actions may be pre-programmed into a plurality of customer premises equipment (CPE) devices. The mitigation actions may be available as temporary or permanent work arounds as problems are detected that match known or discovered patterns of log events. Unsupervised machine learning techniques may be used to identify and correlate new patterns of log events with device anomalies or malfunctions. When a new pattern of log events is discovered and correlated to an anomaly or malfunction in a group of CPE devices, the discovered pattern may be written to the group of CPE devices with instructions to use particular ones of the mitigation actions. The CPE devices can then, in examples, monitor their own logs to detect the patterns and implement one or more of the mitigation actions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2024
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Applicant: CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC
    Inventors: Shaun Hawkinson, Kevin Lu
  • Publication number: 20250071128
    Abstract: Aspects of the present application comprise an edge-based polymorphic network and associated agentless security solutions. Present systems and methods may effectively shapeshift the network through network topology management, node templates, link templates, and network packet manipulation. Using agentless techniques, the network may be reshaped when attacks are detected in a manner that impacts only the attacker, and an agentless color theory security solution may be used to dynamically protect network traffic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2024
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Applicant: CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Charles Barnett, JR., Ronald Anthony Lewis
  • Patent number: 12234421
    Abstract: A method for carbon dioxide recycle stream processing with ethylene glycol dehydrating in an enhanced oil recovery process includes receiving a first carbon dioxide recycle stream from a hydrocarbon formation, adding ethylene glycol to the first carbon dioxide recycle stream to produce an ethylene glycol and carbon dioxide recycle stream, condensing the ethylene glycol and carbon dioxide stream to produce a multiphase stream, separating the multiphase stream into a water and ethylene glycol stream and a second carbon dioxide recycle stream, separating the water and ethylene glycol stream into a water stream and an ethylene glycol stream, and separating the second carbon dioxide recycle steam into a carbon dioxide reinjection stream and a natural gas liquids stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Pilot Intellectual Property, LLC
    Inventors: Eric Prim, Mark Mathias
  • Patent number: 12238357
    Abstract: A processing system may obtain a downscaled version of a reference copy of a video, comprising a plurality of downscaled versions of a plurality of frames of the reference copy of the video, obtain a first recorded frame of a first variant of a plurality of variants associated with the reference copy of the video, where the plurality of variants comprises a plurality of copies of the video encoded at different bitrates, generate a first downscaled version of the first recorded frame, calculate a first plurality of image distances between the first downscaled version of the first recorded frame and the plurality of downscaled versions of the plurality of frames of the reference copy of the video, and determine a first frame index of the first recorded frame in accordance with a first least image distance from among the first plurality of image distances that is calculated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Mobolity II LLC
    Inventors: Subhabrata Sen, Eric Petajan, Shichang Xu