Patents Assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
  • Patent number: 11863404
    Abstract: A device may receive a request for an application from a user device, network data for a network provider and a cloud provider associated with the user device, and SLA constraints. The device may calculate a plurality of cost vectors associated with defining a path for the user device to access the application, and may identify a network provider device that provides a first least cost path and satisfies a first threshold. The device may identify, from a plurality of cloud provider devices, a set of cloud provider devices that support the application for the network provider device, and may identify a cloud provider device that provides a second least cost path and satisfies a second threshold. The device may cause the application to be provided from the cloud provider device to the user device, via the network provider device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventor: Mehmet Toy
  • Patent number: 11860957
    Abstract: An improved search engine is disclosed. The search engine receives search queries from client devices and inputs these queries into a first neural network (an action understanding model) that includes an action embedding layer. The action embedding layer can be a word embedding layer constructed using action terms. The action understanding model outputs a filter match associated with a type of filter and, in some scenarios, an action-condition pair. The action-condition pair includes an action associated with the type of filter and a condition comprising an adaptive value associated with the action. Based on the filter and, if present, action-condition pair(s), the embodiments generate a structured query and issue the structured query to a data repository (e.g., database). The search engine then returns a search results page responsive to the search query that includes the results returned by the data repository in response to the structured query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Subham Biswas, Bharatwaaj Shankar
  • Publication number: 20230422326
    Abstract: A network device may receive a PDU session create message associated with establishing a PDU session with a user device and via a RAN, and may receive a first 5QI value and a second 5QI value associated with the PDU session. The network device may attempt to establish the PDU session with the first 5QI value and via the RAN, and may receive an indication that the first 5QI value is not supported for establishing the PDU session. The network device may cause the PDU session to be established with the second 5QI value, and via the RAN, based on the indication that the first 5QI value is not supported for establishing the PDU session.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Violeta CAKULEV, Lixia YAN, Yousef ABDELMALEK, Sudhakar Reddy PATIL, Lalit R. KOTECHA
  • Publication number: 20230421548
    Abstract: A device may receive a certificate, such as an X.509 certificate, that includes authentication information. The authentication information may uniquely identify a customer equipment. The device may authenticate the customer equipment using the authentication information. The device may obtain configuration information, associated with configuring the customer equipment to receive a service, based on authenticating the customer equipment using the authentication information. The device may provide the configuration information to permit the customer equipment to be configured to receive the service. The device may provide the service to the customer equipment based on authenticating the customer equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Elliot G. EICHEN, Tim D. PAIEMENT, Robert A. SARTINI
  • Publication number: 20230422094
    Abstract: A management system may receive base station information regarding 5G base stations identified by a fixed wireless access (FWA) device. The base station information may identify the 5G base stations and sectors of the 5G base stations. The management system may provide a request for a quantity of devices connected to each of the sectors. The management system may receive device information indicating the quantity of devices connected to each sector of the sectors of the 5G base stations. The management system may determine loads of the 5G base stations based on the device information. The management system may provide load information regarding the loads of the 5G base stations. The load information may be provided to cause a 4G base station to determine the loads of the 5G base stations prior to causing a 5G base station to establish a connection with the FWA device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Seng GAN, Muhammad Ebad ULLAH, Timothy E. COYLE, Andrew F. PATKA
  • Publication number: 20230421932
    Abstract: A device may comprise a first portion and a second portion. The first portion may comprise a plurality of slots configured to receive a plurality of fiber optic cables. Each fiber optic cable may be received in a respective slot of the plurality of slots. The second portion may comprise a plurality of protruding members configured to bend the plurality of fiber optic cables, received in the first portion, to cause the plurality of fiber optic cables to emit light. The second portion may further comprise the light detection unit. The light detection unit may be configured to determine whether light emitted by a fiber optic cable is detected; and provide an indication regarding a port of the plurality of ports based on determining that the light, emitted by the fiber optic cable, is detected. The fiber optic cable may be connected to the port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Tiejun J. XIA, Glenn A. WELLBROCK
  • Publication number: 20230422285
    Abstract: A network management system may provide, to a base station, a request for base station device information regarding devices connected to the base station. The base station may be identified by a fixed wireless access (FWA) device. The network management system may receive, based on the request, the base station device information from the base station. The base station device information may indicate a quantity of the devices connected to the base station and signal strengths of the devices connected to the base station. The network management system may determine a load of the base station based on the quantity of the devices and the signal strengths of the devices and determine a signal strength threshold associated with the base station based on the load. The network management system may cause a connection to be established between the FWA device and the base station based on the signal strength threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2022
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Seng GAN, Muhammad Ebad ULLAH, Andrew F. PATKA, Fahad ZIA
  • Publication number: 20230421472
    Abstract: A device may receive network data identifying uplink/downlink packet loss percentage, uplink/downlink jitter, uplink/downlink latency, and uplink/downlink packet throughput associated with a slice of a network, and may set an uplink value for each of the uplink packet loss percentage, the uplink jitter, the uplink latency, and the uplink packet throughput. The device may multiply the uplink values by corresponding uplink weights to calculate an uplink cost, and may set a downlink value for each of the downlink packet loss percentage, the downlink jitter, the downlink latency, and the downlink packet throughput. The device may multiply the downlink values by corresponding downlink weights to calculate a downlink cost, and may calculate a total cost based on the uplink cost and the downlink cost. The device may cause another slice, with the same attributes as the slice, to be instantiated when the total cost satisfies a threshold for a time period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: James MATHEW, Peretz FEDER, Mourad B. TAKLA, Sachin VARGANTWAR
  • Patent number: 11856066
    Abstract: Systems and methods described herein provide life cycle management for physical network function (PNFs) via an orchestrator using PNF proxies. A network device in a service provider network receives a software package for a virtual network function (VNF) serving as PNF proxy for a type of PNF. The software package includes a proxy descriptor and external virtual links (VLs) for the type of PNF. The network device associates, an instance of the PNF proxy with an installed PNF, creates the instance of the PNF proxy as a VNF in a cloud platform, and provides a record of the created instance of the PNF proxy to an active inventory system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Kristen Sydney Young, Jason T. Wright
  • Patent number: 11853941
    Abstract: A platform may receive a first set of address-occupant pairs from a plurality of source devices, wherein the first set of address-occupant pairs comprises identifications of physical addresses and identifications of occupants. The platform may detect an identification of a physical address that is associated with identifications of a plurality of the occupants. The platform may select, for the physical address, one of the identifications of the plurality of occupants to maintain association with the identification of the physical address. The platform may aggregate infrastructure information with the second set of address-occupant pairs, wherein the infrastructure information indicates one or more services available to be provided at one or more of the physical addresses. The platform may perform one or more actions based on identifying the one or more services available to be provided at one or more of the physical addresses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: David H. Feldman, Sandeep Juneja, Randolph Torres, Allyson M. Norfleet
  • Patent number: 11856019
    Abstract: An illustrative injection detection system receives a text statement that includes a set of text elements and implements instructions for performing an operation with respect to a data structure. The system identifies a target risk element count equal to a number of risk elements preapproved to occur within the set of text elements of the text statement. The system also determines a detected risk element count equal to a number of risk elements that occur within the set of text elements of the text statement. If the system detects a violation of a predetermined rule defining an acceptable relationship between the target and detected risk element counts for the text statement, the system triggers an exception condition indicating a risk that the text statement corresponds to an injection attack on the data structure. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventor: Alexander Alberstein
  • Patent number: 11854228
    Abstract: An illustrative image processing system determines that an object depicted in an image is an instance of an object type for which a machine learning model is available to the image processing system. In response to the determining that the object is the instance of the object type, the image processing system obtains pose data generated based on the machine learning model to represent how objects of the object type are capable of being posed. The image processing system generates a volumetric representation of the object in an estimated pose. The estimated pose is estimated independently of depth data for the object based on the image and the pose data. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Tom Hsi Hao Shang, Elena Dotsenko, Liang Luo
  • Patent number: 11855977
    Abstract: A device may determine that a network function of a network is to use a secure communication protocol. The network function may be configured to facilitate communication via the network. The device may identify a component of a resource configuration that is to instantiate the network function. The device may instantiate, using the component, a proxy for the network function. The device may configure the proxy to obtain a certificate that is associated with the secure communication protocol. The device may cause the proxy to use the certificate to communicate with another proxy that is associated with the network function to perform an operation associated with the network function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Amit Mahajan, Jayesh Kumar Laad, John M. Bittenbender
  • Patent number: 11855856
    Abstract: Systems and methods described herein provide an interface for an Network Data Analytics Function (NWDAF) to extract events from an Edge Application Server Discovery Function (EASDF) for a given network slice. An NWDAF in a core network receives an information request for an Edge Application Server (EAS) discovery service. The NWDAF sends, to an EASDF, a data request based on the information request. The NWDAF receives event data from the EASDF that is responsive to the data request and generates an analytics report based on the event data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Vijayakrishna P. Guduru, Sudhakar Reddy Patil, Anthony Clay Reynolds
  • Patent number: 11854136
    Abstract: A simulation platform may receive, from a plurality of image capture devices, a plurality of image streams that depict an event. The simulation platform may identify an object that is depicted in each of the plurality of image streams. The simulation platform may determine, for each of the plurality of image streams, respective image-based coordinates of a path associated with the object during the event. The simulation platform may determine, based on the respective image-based coordinates and timestamps of the plurality of image streams, simulation coordinates associated with a path of the object during the event. The simulation platform may detect, based on the simulation coordinates, that the object is involved in a collision during the event. The simulation platform may perform an action associated with detecting that the object is involved in the collision.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew W. Herson, Destah Owens, Mohammad Naimur Rahman
  • Patent number: 11855786
    Abstract: Systems and methods described herein provide for intelligent differentiated retransmissions in Radio Access Networks (RANs), such as Fifth Generation New Radio (5G-NR) networks, to provide consistent low latency for different service requirements. A network device determines if consistent low latency is required for a communication session requested by a user equipment (UE) device. The network device selects, based on the determining, retransmission settings for the communication session and sends the retransmission settings to an access station of a radio access network (RAN).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Jin Yang, Richard Hornby, Krishna K. Bellamkonda, Ahmed Moussa
  • Publication number: 20230409734
    Abstract: A device described herein may maintain criteria associated with private information, and may receive action information that includes information regarding one or more actions performed by one or more systems. The device may identify a first subset of the action information that meets the criteria associated with private information, and may identify a second subset of the action information that does not meet the criteria associated with private information. The device may encrypt, using one or more keys, the first subset of the action information based on identifying that the first subset meets the criteria associated with private information, and may generate an action package based on the encrypted first subset and the second subset of the action information. Another device may use the one or more keys to decrypt the encrypted first subset of the action information included in the action package.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2022
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: William McCarley, Prem Doshi
  • Publication number: 20230413054
    Abstract: A device may receive a notification message to be securely delivered to a recipient associated with a user device, and may validate the recipient. The device may generate a secure sanitized summary message, for the notification message, based on predefined templates or based on a natural language processing model, and may generate a token for the notification message. The device may store the notification message, the token, and entitlement information for the recipient in a data structure, and may provide, via an OTA infrastructure, the secure sanitized summary message and the token to the user device. The device may receive, from the user device, the token based on a selection of the secure sanitized summary message by the recipient, and may retrieve the notification message from the data structure based on the token. The device may provide the notification message to the user device associated with the recipient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Sutap CHATTERJEE, Atul SHARMA, Abhishek JOSHI, Deepak David SAMPATH
  • Publication number: 20230405469
    Abstract: A system described herein may receive asset definition information indicating one or more attributes of an asset, which may include a real-world item or a digital asset, such as a non-fungible token (“NFT”). The system may provide the asset definition information to one or more digital platforms, such as gaming platforms, content streaming platforms, social media platforms, etc. The system may receive information indicating a particular entity having ownership of or access to the asset, and may indicating such entity to the digital platforms. The plurality of digital platforms may each provide a respective tokenized version of the asset to the particular entity based on the information indicating the particular entity having access to the asset. The tokenized versions of the asset may be automatically generated based on the asset definition information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Dante J. Pacella, Jeremy Germann
  • Publication number: 20230412469
    Abstract: A device may receive network data identifying at least one of a signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR), a bit error rate (BER), a packet loss, or a frame loss associated with a radio access network (RAN), and may receive model data associated with a plurality of machine learning models. The device may receive inference confidence scores associated with the plurality of machine learning models, and may process the network data, the model data, and the inference confidence scores, with a model, to select a machine learning model from the plurality of machine learning models. The device may cause the selected machine learning model to be implemented in connection with processing images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2022
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Karthik RAMASWAMY, Stephen C. OPFERMAN, Felipe CASTRO, Sivanaga Ravi Kumar CHUNDURU VENKATA