Patents Assigned to VERIZON
  • Patent number: 11234287
    Abstract: A system and method provide for receiving, at a radio access network (RAN), a radio resource connection (RRC) connection request from user equipment (UE) in a disconnected/idle state; allocating signaling radio bearer (SRB) resources to the UE; sending an initial UE message to a core network; receiving an initial context set-up from the core network; establishing an RRC session with the UE in an RRC connected state; storing the context information; detecting inactivity in the RRC session while the UE is in the RRC connected state; suspending the RRC session and transitioning the UE device from the RRC connected state to an RRC inactive state based on the inactivity; determining a congested/overloaded state in the RAN; receiving an RRC resume request from the UE; and determining, using the stored context information, whether the UE is to be granted prioritized access to the RAN and transitioned to the RRC connected state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Sudhakar Reddy Patil, Amir Saghir, Frank Jager
  • Patent number: 11231942
    Abstract: Users are enabled to define and modify mappings between (1) gestures and (2) actions performed by one or more computing devices in response to a device detecting performance of a gesture. A generalized gesture-to-action mapping framework allows users to intuitively define and modify such mappings. In response to a device detecting the performance of a particular gesture, one or more devices may cause the execution of one or more device actions based on a set of user-defined gesture-to-action mappings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Marco de Sa, Elizabeth F. Churchill, R. Preston McAfee, David Ayman Shamma
  • Patent number: 11232266
    Abstract: A system may separate a transcript of a conversation into a first section corresponding to a first speaker in the conversation, and a second section corresponding to a second speaker in the conversation. The system may process, based on delimiters and punctuation marks, the first section and the second section to form a first speaker transcript and a second speaker transcript; determine, based on one or more topic models, a first set of key terms associated with the first speaker transcript and a second set of key terms associated with the second speaker transcript. The system may generate, based on a common set of key terms associated with the first set and the second of key terms, a first transcript summary of the first speaker transcript and a second transcript summary of the second speaker transcript; and generate a summary based on the first and the second transcript summaries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing inc.
    Inventors: Pratik K. Biswas, Aleksandr Iakubovich
  • Patent number: 11233785
    Abstract: A system described herein may provide techniques for providing secure, configurable, network services via a dynamic gateway. Network services may be provided using virtual machines, pods, and/or containers. The dynamic gateway may provide hosted services and edge site services. The dynamic gateway may provide separate secure access to the hosted services and edge site services, utilizing different administrator credentials for the hosted services and edge site services. A host services orchestrator may receive usage information from the dynamic gateway. The host services orchestrator may generate a usage prediction based on the received information. The host services orchestrator may, based on the usage prediction, allocate provided services between edge site and hosted services and may further allocate hardware and/or software resources of the dynamic gateway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventor: Beth F. Cohen
  • Patent number: 11233883
    Abstract: A device may determine that an application server requires an IPv6 address of a user equipment, and may provide, to another network device, a request for the IPv6 address of the user equipment, wherein the request includes data identifying an IP address of the network device and a port of the network device, and wherein the request is to cause the other network device to provide the request for the IPv6 address to the user equipment via a SMS request message, and receive, from the user equipment, data identifying the IPv6 address and a port of the user equipment via a SMS response message. The network device may receive, from the other network device, a response that includes the data identifying the IPv6 address and the port of the user equipment, and may store the data identifying the IPv6 address and the port of the user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Ye Huang, Michael R. Waters, Sameer Muhammad Farooqi, Sudhir Patel, Jeremy Nacer, Miguel A. Carames, Andrew E. Youtz, Gregory S. Blazi
  • Patent number: 11233733
    Abstract: A controller determines a path from a first router in a first segment routing (SR) domain to a destination in a second SR domain, where the path includes a first sub-path in the first SR domain and a second sub-path in the second SR domain. The controller determines first SR instructions, that conform to a first SR protocol, for the first sub-path, and determines second SR instructions, that conform to a second SR protocol, for the second sub-path. The controller sends the first SR instructions to the first router in the first SR domain to enable segment routing of data towards the destination via the first sub-path, and sends the second SR instructions to a second router located at an end of the first sub-path or at a beginning of the second sub-path to enable segment routing of data towards the destination via the second sub-path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Mark T. Watts, Gregory Pultorak
  • Patent number: 11234292
    Abstract: A system described herein may provide a technique for providing high priority access to one or more particular priority cells implemented by a base station of a radio access network (“RAN”) associated with a wireless telecommunications network. A first group of User Equipment (“UEs”) may be High Priority Access (“HPA”) UEs, and a second group of UEs may be non-HPA UEs. In response to triggering events, system broadcast messages and/or Radio Resource Control (“RRC”) release messages may be used to cause HPA UEs to connect to the priority cells, and may cause non-HPA UEs to connect to other (e.g., non-priority) cells implemented by the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Toby Varughese John, Kodzo Semenyo Agbedanu, Jr., Bibi M. Hakimzadeh, Christopher Jermaine Sheppard
  • Patent number: 11232409
    Abstract: Entity profile information is presented to a user of a computing device. In one embodiment, a method includes: receiving a communication associated with a first entity; in response to receiving the communication, creating or updating, by at least one processor, a first entity profile, wherein the first entity profile is for display to the user on the computing device; and storing a plurality of entity profiles for entities, the entity profiles including the first entity profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: VERIZON MEDIA INC.
    Inventor: Peter Monaco
  • Patent number: 11232522
    Abstract: The present teaching, which includes methods, systems and computer-readable media, relates to providing content from multiple disparate sources including a person's personal data sources and non-personal data sources. The disclosed techniques may include receiving a request for content from a person; obtaining first content from a first source private to the person based on the request; obtaining second content from at least one second source based on the request; blending the first content from the first source and the second content from the at least one second source to generate a blended content; and providing the blended content to the person in response to the request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: VERIZON MEDIA INC.
    Inventors: Suju Rajan, Liangjie Hong, Nathan Liu, Scott Gaffney
  • Patent number: 11233846
    Abstract: An exemplary system includes a cloud server configured to provide a service to a client device by way of a network. The system further includes an edge computing device configured to provide, from an edge of the network to the client device, a latency-sensitive task associated with the service. The cloud server and the edge computing device are configured to operate on distinct and matching datasets to provide the service to the client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Ines
    Inventor: Mohammad Raheel Khalid
  • Patent number: 11234161
    Abstract: A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium are described in which a network slice usage service is provided. The network slice usage service may allow a network device to obtain a network slice usage value of a network slice. The network device may be implemented as a network data analytics function (NWDAF). The network slice usage value may be provided by an access and mobility management function (AMF). The network device may calculate a network slice load value based on the network slice usage value. The network device may also provide the network slice load value to other network devices of a core network, such as a network slice selection function (NSSF) and/or a policy control function (PCF).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Suzann Hua, Ye Huang, Jude M. Munn, Parry Cornell Booker, Miguel A. Carames
  • Publication number: 20220019793
    Abstract: A device may receive building location information associated with a multi-unit building. The device may obtain an image that depicts the multi-unit building. The device may process, using a building analysis model, the image to identify exterior access features of the multi-unit building. The building analysis model may be trained based on a plurality of historical images of other exterior access features. The device may determine, using a scoring system and based on a configuration of exterior access features that are identified by the building analysis model, an exterior accessibility score of the unit. The device may perform, based on the exterior accessibility score, an action associated with qualifying the unit for installation of a service that involves access, from the unit, to an exterior of the multi-unit building.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Vipul JHA, Sheikbharith LIAKATHALI, Rajat SHARMA, Senthil MUTHUSAMY
  • Publication number: 20220021605
    Abstract: A system described herein may provide for the separation of functions associated with a User Plane Function (“UPF”) in a wireless network (e.g., a Fifth Generation (“5G”) network), such that routing devices associated with the wireless network may perform functionality that would otherwise be performed by virtualized hosts or other configurable resources. For example, routing components which form a backhaul or other portion of the network may process traffic according to a suitable set of policies (e.g., Quality of Service (“QoS”) policies, content filtering policies, queueing policies, and/or other policies) instead of transmitting such traffic to a UPF associated with the network core for processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Myron Eugene Bagwell, Niranjan B. Avula, Kalyani Bogineni
  • Publication number: 20220022059
    Abstract: A system described herein may provide a technique for the analysis of antennas in a wireless network, and the ensuing detection of misaligned antennas. Images reflecting measures of interference associated with different antennas may be analyzed based on structural similarity index (“SSIM”) or other similarity analysis techniques, and antennas may be paired according to this analysis. The paired antennas may be compared to a known configuration. Mismatches may indicate misalignment or other malfunctions, based on which automated remedial measures (e.g., antenna realignment) may be performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Jason A. Birr, Katrina Adams, Brian A. Ward
  • Patent number: 11228508
    Abstract: A Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) system reads, from a data bus coupled to the NFV system, Virtual Network Function (VNF) parameters published to the data bus by a new VNF. The NFV system publishes, to the data bus based on the VNF parameters, instructions to multiple components of the NFV system defining which VNF capabilities of the new VNF are to be managed, controlled, or monitored by which of the multiple NFV system components. The multiple components of the NFV system control, manage, or monitor the new VNF based on the published instructions. The data bus can include a Data Movement as a Platform (DMaaP) system that publishes and subscribes to streams of records.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Mourad B. Takla, Fernando Oliveira
  • Patent number: 11228360
    Abstract: A method, device, and computer-readable medium provide for establishing, by a repeater device, a communication channel with a fixed wireless access (FWA) device; receiving, by the repeater device, reference signals from a wireless station; forwarding, by the repeater device, the reference signals to the FWA device; transmitting, by the repeater device, a first uplink signal from the FWA device using a first transmission power level to the wireless station, wherein the first transmission power level is a predetermined value; receiving, in response to the first uplink signal, transmit power control (TPC) command parameters from the FWA device via the communication channel; adjusting, by the repeater device and based on the first TPC command parameters, the first transmission power level from the predetermined value to an adjusted value; and transmitting, at the adjusted transmission power level, a second uplink signal from the FWA device to the wireless station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Samirkumar Patel, Andrew E. Youtz, Paul R. Mcdonough, Shen-De Lin
  • Patent number: 11227256
    Abstract: The present teaching generally relates to detecting data bucket discrepancies associated with online experiments. In a non-limiting embodiment, a monitoring layer may be generated within an online experimentation platform that includes at least a first layer, and where a first online experiment is associated with the first layer, the monitoring layer includes a monitoring layer data bucket, and the first layer includes at least a first data bucket. First data representing user activity associated with a first plurality of identifiers may be obtained, the user activity being associated with the first layer. Second data representing at least one user engagement parameter may be generated, and a first discrepancy between the first and second data may be determined. The first discrepancy indicating a first amount of identifiers that include a first metadata tag associated with the first layer and lack a second metadata tag associated with the monitoring layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: VERIZON MEDIA INC.
    Inventors: Niru Appikatala, Miao Chen, Michael Natkovich, Joshua Walters
  • Patent number: 11228876
    Abstract: A device receives sensor data for a group of user equipment (UE) that are located within or on a structure. The device determines, based on a set of measured barometric pressures identified by the sensor data, a set of relative altitudes that identify altitudes of the group of UEs relative to each other. The device determines, based on at least a portion of the sensor data and relative altitude data that identifies the set of relative altitudes, and for each UE of the group of UEs, a floor on which the UE is located. The device causes, based on determining respective floors on which the UEs of the group of UEs are located, a data structure to store a mapping of each UE to the respective floors. The device performs one or more actions based on the mapping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Manoj Monga, Kevin Donnellan
  • Patent number: 11227011
    Abstract: Users consume a wide variety of content from various sources, such as videos accessible through websites. As provided herein, content recommendations that are contextually and/or semantically relevant to current content consumed by a user may be identified and provided to the user. For example, metadata for a video being watched by the user may be identified (e.g., terms extracted from a description, user reviews, a category, and/or other information). The metadata may be used to identify content recommendations based upon the metadata corresponding to terms grouped into a set of refined topic groupings of a graph comprising terms and relationships between terms extracted from a content corpus. The metadata may be matched to relevant terms within the set of refined topic groupings, and content recommendations comprising content corresponding to the relevant terms may be suggested to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: VERIZON MEDIA INC.
    Inventors: Vidit Jain, Abhranil Chatterjee
  • Patent number: 11228896
    Abstract: A roaming platform is disclosed herein. The roaming platform may receive, via a first communication protocol, an authentication request associated with a user equipment (UE), wherein the UE is subscribed to communicate via a first radio access technology of a home network, and wherein the authentication request is associated with enabling the UE to communicate via a visitor network that utilizes a second radio access technology. The roaming platform may identify an identifier associated with the UE in the authentication request. The roaming platform may determine, based on the identifier, a serving component of the home network that is configured to serve the UE. The roaming platform may obtain, from the serving component, authentication information associated with the UE, wherein the authentication information is obtained via a second communication protocol. The roaming platform may provide, based on the authentication information, an authentication response to the authentication request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Hossein M. Ahmadi, Sudhakar Reddy Patil, Violeta Cakulev, Robert Avanes, Lalit R. Kotecha