Patents Assigned to VERIZON
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Publication number: 20240323817Abstract: A device, such as a User Equipment (“UE”), may identify that the device is communicatively coupled to a wireless network via a particular network slice. The particular network slice may be associated with a particular set of Quality of Service (“QoS”) parameters, Service Level Agreements (“SLAs”), or the like. The UE may determine the particular network slice based on a slice identifier provided by a network interface of the device, based on attributes of traffic sent or received via the wireless network, and/or based on attributes of a wireless connection between the device and the wireless network. The device may identify a slice indicator associated with the particular network slice, and may present the slice indicator via a user interface of the device. The presented slice indicator may notify a user of the device that the particular network slice is being used for traffic sent or received via the device.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2023Publication date: September 26, 2024Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Samirkumar Patel, Andrew E. Youtz, Jeremy Nacer, Lily Zhu, Bharadwaj Vemuri
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Publication number: 20240321260Abstract: A device may receive video data that includes a text transcript, audio sequences, and image frames, and may detect a network fluctuation. The device may process the text transcript to generate a new phrase, and may generate a response phoneme based on the new phrase. The device may generate a text embedding based on the response phoneme, and may process the audio sequences to generate a target voice sequence. The device may generate an audio embedding based on the target voice sequence, and may process the image frames to generate a target image sequence. The device may generate an image embedding based on the target image sequence, and may combine the embeddings to generate an embedding input vector. The device may generate a final voice response and a final video based on the embedding input vector, and may provide the video data, the final voice response, and the final video.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2023Publication date: September 26, 2024Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Subham BISWAS, Saurabh TAHILIANI
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Patent number: 12101369Abstract: A first device receives information indicating changed network conditions for a network supporting a call with a second device at a first audio bit rate, and provides, to the second device, a packet instructing use of a second audio bit rate. The first device starts a timer associated with receiving an indication that the second device is using the second audio bit rate, and receives, from the second device, a response packet at the first audio bit rate. The first device determines that the timer has expired, and provides, to the second device, additional packets instructing use of the second audio bit rate. The first device determines that a threshold quantity of additional packets have been provided to the second device, and re-negotiates the second audio bit rate with the second device. The first device continues the call with the second device at the second audio bit rate.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2021Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Hui Zhao, Jun Yuan
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Patent number: 12099860Abstract: In some implementations, a support system may receive, from a user device, a support request to setup a support session. The support system may establish the support session based on the support request by enabling support communications associated with the support session to be exchanged between a terminal device associated with the support system and the user device. The support system may determine an intent associated with the support session by using artificial intelligence processing to process one or more utterances received from the user device. The support system may provide, to the terminal device, a delegation message that includes an option to enable the support communications associated with the support session to be exchanged between the user device and an assisting device associated with the support system. The assisting device may execute an automated support agent.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2023Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: RajeshKhanna Singa Ramalingam, Kumaradevan Chandrabose, Deenaraj Joshi Jangam, Srinivasa Kaniganti, Sankar Shanmugam
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Patent number: 12101514Abstract: An illustrative interactive content provider system transmits a live video stream to an interactive content player device, and, during the transmitting of the live video stream, provides an executable data object to the interactive content player device. The executable data object includes an interactive content instance configured to be presented within a 3D virtual playing area that bounds at least one virtual object of the interactive content instance. The interactive content provider system directs the interactive content player device to execute the executable data object by overlaying the 3D virtual playing area of the interactive content instance onto a presentation of the live video stream. Corresponding methods and systems are disclosed for both the interactive content provider system and the interactive content player device.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2021Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Mohammad Raheel Khalid, William Robert Davey, Vito Joseph Messina, Carl L. Keifer, III, Oliver S. Castaneda, Scott David Brown
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Publication number: 20240311841Abstract: In some implementations, a system may receive, from a user device, a support request to setup a support session via a first communication modality. The system may determine an intent associated with the support session. The system may provide, to the user device, information to enable a second communication modality for the support session based on the intent associated with the support session. The system may receive, from the user device, an indication of one or more user interactions during the support session via at least one of the first communication modality or the second communication modality. The system may determine an intent associated with the one or more user interactions. The system may provide, to the user device, one or more responses, based on the intent associated with the one or more user interactions, via the first communication modality and the second communication modality.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2023Publication date: September 19, 2024Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Pradeep Bharthur SHANTHRAJ, Prasanna Rajagopal, Charles J. Forsythe, Sankar Shanmugam, Neil Thomas Razzano, Rahul Vijaya Rao, Ravneet Singh, Michael Brimshan, Vipul Jha, Lakshmi Ramanathan
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Publication number: 20240314540Abstract: In some implementations, a unified data repository (UDR) device may receive, from a network device, a request associated with a user equipment (UE). The request may indicate an external identifier of the UE. The UDR device may determine, based on the external identifier of the UE, an internal identifier of the UE. The UDR device may provide, to the network device, a request response that is in response to the request. The request response may indicate information identified via the internal identifier of the UE.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2023Publication date: September 19, 2024Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Shanthala KURAVANGI-THAMMAIAH, Ye HUANG, Lalit R. KOTECHA, Ali Imdad MALIK
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Publication number: 20240311368Abstract: A system described herein may receive a cross-ledger recordation request that includes an information payload, an indication of a target distributed ledger to which the information payload should be recorded, and an indication of a second distributed ledger to which a reference that refers to the first distributed ledger should be recorded. The system may provide the information payload to a second system that implements the first distributed ledger. The system may determine that at least a portion of the information payload has been recorded to the first distributed ledger based on providing the information payload to the second system that implements the first distributed ledger. Based on determining that at least the portion of the information payload has been recorded to the second distributed ledger, the system may record the reference, that refers to the first distributed ledger, to the second distributed ledger.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2023Publication date: September 19, 2024Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Ahmed A. Khan, Mohammed Alsadi, Jeaha Yang, Rangesh Sripathi
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Patent number: 12093325Abstract: One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods are provided. In an example, a population density metric and a geographic feature density metric are generated for a region. A morphology classification is generated for the region based on the population density metric and the geographic feature density metric. A communication site is controlled based on the morphology classification.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2021Date of Patent: September 17, 2024Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Joshua Hane Wainer, Mathew Sunil John
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Patent number: 12095768Abstract: An application client on a user device receives an internal request from within the application client. The internal request is associated with edge application device(s) hosted by a computing platform. In response to the internal request, the application client obtains an authorization token from the computing platform and initiates an edge discovery request to the computing platform using the authorization token. In response to the edge discovery request, the application client receives connection information of a particular edge application device among the edge application device(s) that is identified for the application client by the computing platform. The application client establishes a connection between the application client and the particular edge application device using the connection information of the particular edge application device.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2022Date of Patent: September 17, 2024Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Umesh Kumar Gupta, Bjorn Hjelm, Jyotsna Kachroo, Raghuram Parvataneni, Ramanathan Subramaniam, Ning Zhang
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Patent number: 12092448Abstract: An illustrative augmented reality (AR) management system determines a first optic parameter of a user corresponding to a first viewed point in a real-world environment and a second optic parameter of the user corresponding to a second viewed point in the real-world environment. The first viewed point and the second viewed point are viewed by the user as the user visually focuses on a target point in the real-world environment. The AR management system determines a depth value of the target point based on the first optic parameter and the second optic parameter, and creates an AR anchor associated with the target point based at least on the depth value. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2022Date of Patent: September 17, 2024Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Viraj C. Mantri, Natarajan Jayapal Balajee, Srividhya Parthasarathy, Stewart Katz
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Patent number: 12096336Abstract: A device may include a processor configured to receive a report from a fixed wireless access device indicating that no anchoring relationship exists between a Fourth Generation (4G) base station and a Fifth Generation (5G) base station to which the fixed wireless access device is attempting to connect. The device may be further configured to instruct a network management system to create the anchoring relationship between the 4G base station and the 5G base station; and update an anchoring relationships database with information relating to the created anchoring relationship, wherein the anchoring relationships database stores information relating to anchoring relationships between base stations in a radio access network.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2022Date of Patent: September 17, 2024Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Seng Gan, Andrew F. Patka, Timothy E. Coyle, Ronald Carloni, Muhammad Ebad Ullah, Charles Aaron Robeck, Anand V. Bhatia, Jaime Lugo, Michael J. Sullivan, John E. Anderson, Arun Cherla
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Patent number: 12094181Abstract: A device may receive unprocessed images to be labeled, and may utilize a first neural network model to identify objects of interest in the unprocessed images and bounding boxes for the objects of interest. The device may annotate the objects of interest to generate annotated objects of interest, and may utilize a second neural network model to group the annotated objects of interest into clusters. The device may utilize a third neural network model to determine labels for the clusters, and may request manually-generated labels for clusters for which labels are not determined. The device may receive the manually-generated labels, and may label the unprocessed images with the labels and the manually-generated labels to generate labeled images. The device may generate a training dataset based on the labeled images, and may train a computer vision model with the training dataset to generate a trained computer vision model.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2022Date of Patent: September 17, 2024Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Prakash Ranganathan, Saurabh Tahiliani
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Patent number: 12096391Abstract: A device may create a list of identifiers for base stations that support a fixed wireless service for a user device. The device may receive a first identifier of a first base station associated with a first attach request of the user device. The device may enable the fixed wireless service for the first base station for the user device when the first identifier is included in the list of identifiers. The device may disable the fixed wireless service for the first base station for the user device when the first identifier is not included in the list of identifiers.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2021Date of Patent: September 17, 2024Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Stephen J. Kolanowski, Samirkumar Patel, Angel V. Gomez, Ye Huang
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Patent number: 12096249Abstract: A system described herein may provide a technique for the augmentation of one or more models based on target distributions of values associated with the models. Such models may be associated with a wireless network, and may associate a set of states to a set of values and/or to a set of actions. Such states may include particular sets of configuration parameters associated with the wireless network, the values may include Key Performance Indicators (“KPIs”) associated with a randomness state model or other metrics associated with the wireless network, and the actions may include one or more actions to perform with respect to the wireless network when given a particular state and/or set of KPIs.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2023Date of Patent: September 17, 2024Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Said Soulhi, Bryan Christopher Larish
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Patent number: 12096254Abstract: One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for system parameter identification and network component configuration are provided. A state comprising a system parameter combination, a traffic model, and a channel assignment may be generated. A network traffic scenario is executed through a virtualized testbed using the state. A reward for the system parameter combination may be generated based upon key performance indicators output by the network traffic scenario. A reward policy and rewards generated for system parameter combinations are used to select a system parameter combination that is used to configure a network component of a communication network.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2023Date of Patent: September 17, 2024Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Said Soulhi, Bryan Christopher Larish
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Publication number: 20240306251Abstract: In the various embodiments, systems and methods are disclosed for providing unique service and location codes from a user of a mobile device to a Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) operator at the beginning of an emergency call. In some embodiments, the unique location codes can be utilized in routing the of the emergency call to the appropriate PSAP. In the embodiments, the unique codes can be received as part of an SIP INVITE message including a modified P-Access-Network-Info (PANI) header forwarded from a Proxy-Call Session Control Function (P-CSCF) to an Emergency Call Session Control Function (E-CSCF).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2023Publication date: September 12, 2024Applicant: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.Inventors: Kashif KHAN, Danysel BARTHELME, Ronald E. COLLIER, II, Ertao LI, Steve L. PADILLA, Gaurav PATEL, Shawn R. PUGH, Shujaat Ali SIDDIQUE, Daniel L. WALKER, John Cao Vinh NGUYEN
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Publication number: 20240305468Abstract: A system may receive a request to migrate a first distributed ledger, maintained by a first distributed ledger management system, to a second distributed ledger management system, and may generate first verification information based on information recorded to the first distributed ledger. The system may instruct the second distributed ledger management system to establish a second distributed ledger, such that the second distributed ledger management system maintains the second distributed ledger. The system may also instruct the second distributed ledger management system to record the information, recorded to the first distributed ledger, to the second distributed ledger. The system may generate second verification information based on the information recorded to the second distributed ledger, and verify that the first distributed ledger has been migrated to the second distributed ledger management system by comparing the first verification information to the second verification information.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2023Publication date: September 12, 2024Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Ahmed A. Khan, Ravi G. Thota, Jeaha Yang, Praveen A. Reddy, Krupakar Jonnalagadda, Rangesh Sripathi
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Publication number: 20240305536Abstract: A device may receive uplink physical resource block (PRB) interference data from a base station, and may process the uplink PRB interference data, with a first machine learning model, to generate same sector similarity score data for the base station. The device may process the same sector similarity score data, with a second machine learning model, to identify and classify at least one antenna issue of the base station, and may create sector-carrier pair data, from the same sector similarity score data, based on the at least one antenna issue. The device may process the sector-carrier pair data, with a third machine learning model, to identify issues that span sector carriers of the base station, and may calculate an issue status and alignment score based on the issues and the same sector similarity score data. The device may perform actions based on the issue status and alignment score.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2023Publication date: September 12, 2024Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Jason A. BIRR, Deborah Lynn LISKE, Richard S. DELK, Brian A. WARD
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Patent number: 12086772Abstract: A system described herein may receive a request to bridge an asset from a first distributed ledger to a second distributed ledger. The system may record, to the first distributed ledger, information indicating that the asset is frozen. The first distributed ledger may maintain information indicating that the frozen asset remains associated with an owner of the asset. The system may record, to the second distributed ledger, a bridged version of the asset, and may link the asset to the bridged asset. The system may identify a transfer of the bridged version of the asset to a second owner, and record, to the first distributed ledger and based on the linking of the asset to the bridged asset, information disassociating the first owner from the asset.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2022Date of Patent: September 10, 2024Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Ashish Sardesai, Nazneen Khan, Dante J. Pacella