Patents Assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
  • Publication number: 20240015075
    Abstract: Techniques for network usage analysis and forecasting are disclosed. In one embodiment, a computerized method is disclosed comprising obtaining network access data identifying network access of a plurality of users, obtaining user data for the plurality of users, analyzing the obtained network access data, the analyzing comprising determining a network usage pattern for each user, determining a plurality of feature sets corresponding to the plurality of users, a feature set determined for a respective user comprising network usage features and user features determined using the user data obtained for the respective user, determining a number of clusters formed using the plurality of feature sets, each cluster grouping a number of users, of the plurality of users, having similar feature sets, and communicating information about at least one cluster in response to a network analysis request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2022
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicant: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.
    Inventors: Sheikbharith LIAKATHALI, Rajat SHARMA, Senthil MUTHUSAMY
  • Publication number: 20240014994
    Abstract: In some implementations, a network device may determine that a user equipment (UE) is operating in coverage of a boundary cell associated with overlapping coverage provided by a first cell and a second cell. The network device may determine that a first time division duplex (TDD) slot pattern associated with the first cell differs from a second TDD slot pattern associated with the second cell. The network device may determine a boundary region TDD slot pattern to be used for communications with the UE within the coverage of the boundary cell based on at least one of the first TDD slot pattern or the second TDD slot pattern. The network device may communicate with the UE using the boundary region TDD slot pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: David Albert ROSSETTI, Sylvestre DEMONGET, Madhusudan Mandyam BHEEMARAYAN, Anand J. SHAH
  • Publication number: 20240015371
    Abstract: A video summary device may generate a textual summary of a transcription of a virtual event. The video summary device may generate a phonemic transcription of the textual summary and generate a text embedding based on the phonemic transcription. The video summary device may generate an audio embedding based on a target voice. The video summary device may generate an audio output of the phonemic transcription uttered by the target voice. The audio output may be generated based on the text embedding and the audio embedding. The video summary device may generate an image embedding based on video data of a target user. The image embedding may include information regarding images of facial movements of the target user. The video summary device may generate a video output of different facial movements of the target user uttering the phonemic transcription, based on the text embedding and the image embedding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Subham BISWAS, Saurabh TAHILIANI
  • Publication number: 20240015101
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein allow reduced latency and computational costs by identifying a slice associated with a packet and determining an action to be performed with respect to the packet without having to perform deep packet inspection on the packet. An aspect of the present disclosure is a method comprising receiving a packet including a slice identifier corresponding to a slice of a network, the slice identifier having a plurality of bits; determining a bit value for each bit in a subset of the plurality of bits; and performing an action with respect to the packet based on the bit value of at least one bit in the subset.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2022
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicant: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.
    Inventors: David TAFT, Anthony Clay REYNOLDS, Lap TSE, Raquel Morera SEMPRE, Sudhakar Reddy PATIL, Luay JALIL, Nicklous D. MORRIS
  • Publication number: 20240015469
    Abstract: A device may determine that a first geographical area satisfies an area threshold. The first geographical area includes an estimated location of a source of interference associated with base stations. A first plurality of vertices, of the first geographical area, are based on locations of the base stations. The device may determine a second plurality of vertices. The second plurality of vertices are closer to the estimated location than the first plurality of vertices. The device may provide information regarding the second plurality of vertices and may obtain magnitude information indicating magnitudes of the interference measured at the second plurality of vertices. The device may determine a third plurality of vertices based on the magnitude information. The device may provide information regarding a second geographical area, formed by the third plurality of vertices, to cause a search of the second geographical area to identify the source of the interference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2022
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Hector A. GARCIA CRESPO, Brian A. WARD, Timothy E. COYLE, Matthew KAPALA
  • Patent number: 11871318
    Abstract: A system may provide for the design and/or modification of network slices associated with a wireless network. The wireless network may include different slices that are associated different sets of service parameters. Slices may include radio access networks (“RANs”), core networks, or other types of networks, which may include respective sets of network functions (“NFs”), which may perform specific functions with respect to a given RAN and/or core network. Different slices, RANs, core networks, and/or NFs may be associated with particular policies and/or tags which may be specified by one or more users associated with a first access level. One or more users associated with a second access level may configure portions of the wireless network, and the policies and/or tags associated with particular slices, RANs, core networks, or NFs may be automatically implemented by an orchestration system that configures the wireless network based on the provided configuration information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Sabareeswar P. Balakrishnan, Viswanath Kumar Skand Priya
  • Patent number: 11871225
    Abstract: A first wireless access device, associated with a wireless service provider, establishes a wireless local area network connection with a second wireless access device and receives a certificate including a unique identifier associated with the second wireless access device. The first wireless access device determines whether the second wireless access device is authorized to connect to the first wireless access device. For example, if the certificate is signed by a certificate authority associated with the wireless service provider and the unique identifier appears in a whitelist stored at the first wireless access device, the first wireless access device and the second wireless access device perform a mutual authentication procedure based on one or more ephemeral keys. The first wireless access device provides the second wireless access device with access to a wide area network based on successful completion of the mutual authentication procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Warren Hojilla Uy, Young R. Choi, Samirkumar Patel
  • Patent number: 11871208
    Abstract: An illustrative application executing on a first device establishes a first network connection between the first device and a collaboration platform server managing a set of components for a collaboration platform providing voice communication services with respect to a virtual space. Using the first network connection, the application: 1) sets a first location within the virtual space at which a first voice component is positioned, and 2) determines a second location within the virtual space at which a second voice component is positioned. The application receives, by way of a second network connection between the first and second devices, audio data representing voice communication originating at the second device. Based on the first and second locations, the application generates a spatialized rendering of the audio data for presentation to a user. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Samuel Charles Mindlin, Kunal Jathal, William Robert Davey, Scott David Brown
  • Publication number: 20240007853
    Abstract: In some implementations, a first device may connect to a network, wherein the first device is associated with a first application that is associated with a service provider. The first device may detect that a second device connected to the network is associated with a second application that is associated with the service provider. The first device may receive, from the second device, identification information associated with the second device. The first device may transmit, to a third device associated with the service provider, the identification information associated with the second device. The first device may receive, from the third device, authentication information permitting the first application to operate on the network based on the third device receiving the identification information associated with the second device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Satish K. SINGH, Vijay A. SENTHIL, Jaykishan TIWARI
  • Patent number: 11863382
    Abstract: Systems and methods described herein provide a co-managed configuration service. A network device stores parameters for the co-managed configuration service. The parameters identify exposed services for an enterprise network that uses devices from a network service provider. The network device receives, via a customer portal, a vendor-agnostic change request for the enterprise network. The change request includes a user role and a change request name for one of the exposed services. The network device authenticates the change request based on the user role and the change request name and retrieves vendor director information for an SDN device implementing the configuration change. The network device invokes, in response to the change request, the configuration change for the enterprise network based on the vendor director information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Sivanaga Ravi Kumar Chunduru Venkata, Kirk Campbell, Raghu Rami Reddy Valisammagari, Manish Srivastava
  • Patent number: 11864026
    Abstract: A system may obtain information that indicates when a plurality of network slices are overloaded; generate a message that indicates which of the network slices are barred from access by wireless mobile terminals based on the information; and broadcast the message over a downlink wireless signal to a cell serviced by the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Sudhakar Reddy Patil, Lalit R. Kotecha, Deepa Jagannatha, Frank Jager
  • Patent number: 11864154
    Abstract: One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for synthetic data point generation are provided. In an example, error bounds for generating synthetic data points from a set of data points collected from mobile devices may be determined. Paths associated with groups of data points of the set of data points may be determined. Error bounds may be applied to limit the paths to generate limited path data. Synthetic data points may be generated based upon the limited path data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Jerry Gamble, Jr., Corbin Pierce Moline
  • Patent number: 11861516
    Abstract: Methods, systems and computer program products for associating geographical locations with annotations corresponding to content. In one method, a language model is developed. The language model is developed from the location information and the one or more annotations associated with content uploaded by users. The language model is based on the probabilistic distribution of locations over one or more annotations. Further, when a user provides one or more annotations, the system and the method may use the language model to identify one or more locations associated with the one or more annotations provided by the user. The language model predicts one or more geographical locations based on the probabilistic distribution of locations over the annotations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Roelof van Zwol, Vanessa Murdock, Pavel Serdyukov
  • Patent number: 11864252
    Abstract: Devices, methods, and computer-readable media described herein and provide for sending, by a first wireless station, a suspend message to a wireless station associated with a radio resource control (RRC) session for a dual connectivity (DC) capable user equipment (UE) device that places the DC capable UE device in an RRC inactive mode; storing, by the first wireless station, UE context information from a core network for the DC capable UE device for the RRC session; and evaluating, by the first wireless station, a set of criteria to determine whether to also store the UE context information at the wireless station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Yuexin Dong, Sudhakar Reddy Patil, Jin Yang, Vishwanath Ramamurthi
  • Patent number: 11864002
    Abstract: A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium are described in which a polymorphic algorithm service is provided. The service may coordinate and manage the execution of polymorphic algorithms of various optimization types in a multi-tier network, such as a radio access network or a self-organizing network. The service may coordinate the transition of execution of the polymorphic algorithms among the tiers of the multi-tier network, such that the polymorphic algorithm of a type may be active, for any given node, in a single tier of the multi-tier network. The service may monitor the yield of the optimizations based on various machine learning technologies, polices, and optimization targets. The polymorphic algorithms may operate in different time granularities in correspondence to the tiers of the multi-tier network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Jin Yang, Krishna K. Bellamkonda
  • Patent number: 11862000
    Abstract: A device may receive radio frequency (RF) transmissions from access points provided in a zone, and may calculate channel state information (CSI) for the access points based on the RF transmissions. The device may identify CSI phases that satisfy a phase threshold to eliminate surrounding movement in the zone and to focus on an entry location of the zone, and may perform a short-time Fourier transform of the CSI phases to generate a frequency versus time graph. The device may perform a spectrogram analysis of the frequency versus time graph or may process the frequency versus time graph, with a machine learning model, to determine a quantity of people in the zone and a start and stop times associated with entries and exits of the people to and from the zone. The device may perform actions based on the quantity of people and the start and stop times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Sagar Deepak Mahurkar, Anjaneya Pericharla, Sanjay Ahuja, Srirama R. Kalidindi
  • Patent number: 11864067
    Abstract: In some implementations, a user device may receive a text message and identify a keyword that relates to a future event. The user device may display, based on identifying the keyword, a first user interface that includes the text message and an option to set a reminder. The user device may receive a selection of the option and display a second user interface. The user device may receive a selection of a reminder type and automatically populate the reminder with text of the text message based on the selection of the reminder type. The user device may store the reminder and cause an action to be performed based on the reminder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Kim M. Gutierrez, Yu Liang Wang, Manian Krishnamoorthy, Steve M. Bellai, Adam Schwenk, Praveen Atreya
  • Patent number: 11862175
    Abstract: One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for user identification and authorization are provided. In an example, a voice command to perform an action is detected. A voice profile associated with a user is identified based upon voice characteristics of the voice command. In response to determining that the voice profile is not linked to an account associated with the action, the user is prompted for an identifier associated with a device for creating the account through the device. In response to receiving the identifier from the user, the identifier is utilized to facilitate creation of the account through the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Sukumar Thiagarajah, Jyotsna Kachroo, Michael A. Adel, Dayong He
  • 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