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Patent number: 11665768Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example determining that a first connection between a first device and a wireless access point is not functional, wherein a non-functional connection between the first device and a backhaul network causes the first connection between the first device and the wireless access point to become not functional. Information is received from a second device via a second connection, wherein the second connection includes a wireless connection via a dedicated channel of a radio access network of the second connection. The dedicated channel will not be released while providing service via the second connection, the information being provided to the first device via a wireless channel. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2021Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Barrett Kreiner, Ryan Schaub, Timothy Knezevich
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Patent number: 11663725Abstract: One example of a method includes receiving a plurality of video streams depicting a scene, wherein the plurality of video streams provides images of the scene from a plurality of different viewpoints, identifying a target that is present in the scene, wherein the target is identified based on a determination of a likelihood of being of interest to a viewer of the scene, determining a trajectory of the target through the plurality of video streams, wherein the determining is based in part on an automated visual analysis of the plurality of video streams, wherein the determining is based in part on a visual analysis of the plurality of video streams, rendering a volumetric video traversal that follows the target through the scene, wherein the rendering comprises compositing the plurality of video streams, receiving viewer feedback regarding the volumetric video traversal, and adjusting the rendering in response to the viewer feedback.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2021Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: David Crawford Gibbon, Tan Xu, Lee Begeja, Bernard S. Renger, Behzad Shahraray, Raghuraman Gopalan, Eric Zavesky
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Patent number: 11664883Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, a device having an envelope detector, an oscillator, a switch driver, a processing system including a processor; and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations, the operations of comparing a first signal received from the envelope detector and a second signal received from the oscillator within a high probability interval, thereby generating a valid detection; and activating the switch driver responsive to the valid detection. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2021Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Robert Bennett, Irwin Gerszberg, Giovanni Vannucci, Farhad Barzegar
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Patent number: 11665596Abstract: Intelligent, automated, fixed wireless internet planning (e.g., using a computerized tool) is enabled. For instance, a system can comprise a processor and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising: determining, for a user equipment determined to be within a defined coverage area, a signal to interference and noise ratio, based on the signal to interference and noise ratio, determining a spectral efficiency value corresponding to the user equipment, based on the spectral efficiency value and a total available bandwidth of a network via which the defined coverage area is enabled, determining an available throughput corresponding to the user equipment, and in response to a determination that the available throughput exceeds a threshold throughput, designating the user equipment, in a data store, as being covered within the defined coverage area by the total available bandwidth of the network.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2021Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.Inventors: Huahui Wang, Yuning Yang, Ye Ge, Wenjie Zhao
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Patent number: 11663825Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, analyzing media content to recognize an object therein, wherein the media content is provided as a video stream displayed to a user of a communication device, the media content comprising a plurality of digital frames transported to the communication device over a private network; associating product information of a product with the object; receiving a user input selecting the object; determining providers of goods or services of the product, wherein the providers of goods or services are selected during the determining based on a proximity of the providers to the user of the communication device; and providing the product information to the communication device. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2021Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLCInventor: Manouchehr Bagheri
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Patent number: 11664032Abstract: Multi-agent input coordination can be used to for acoustic collaboration of multiple listening agents deployed in smart devices on a premises, improving the accuracy of identifying requests and specifying where that request should be honored, improving quality of detection, and providing better understanding of user commands and user intent throughout the premises. A processor or processors such as those in a smart speaker can identify audio requests received through at least two agents in a network and determine at which of the agents to actively process a selected audio request. The identification can make use of techniques such as location context and secondary trait analysis. The audio request can include simultaneous audio requests received through at least two agents, differing audio requests received from different requesters, or both.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2021Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: James Pratt, Timothy Innes, Eric Zavesky, Nigel Bradley
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Patent number: 11665060Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, determining, an application requirement for a server of a data center geographically separated from a central location. A configuration file adapted for the server according to the application requirement is obtained at the central location and a host processor located at the data center is selected according to the application requirement. A static IP address preassigned to an administrative portion of the selected host processor is identified. The selected host processor is initialized remotely over a wide area network via the administrative port without utilizing any software resources pre-existing at the data center. The initializing configures the selected host processor according to the configuration file to service the application requirement. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2022Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Srinandan Hullahalli, Sunil Maloo, Anestis Karasaridis, Robert Roschewsk
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Patent number: 11663791Abstract: An example method includes identifying a need and an emotional state of a user who is participating in an interaction with a support application, retrieving a set of preferences for the user, selecting a set of features for an avatar to be presented to the user, wherein the set of features is selected based at least on the emotional state of the user and the set of preferences, selecting a stored workflow based on the need of the user, and rendering the avatar to exhibit the set of features and to present the stored workflow as part of the interaction.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2021Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: James Pratt, Yupeng Jia, Eric Zavesky
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Patent number: 11663298Abstract: Concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to managing enterprise software licenses for virtual network functions (“VNFs”). According to one aspect disclosed herein, a system can acquire a software license for a software asset to be instantiated and used by a cloud computing environment associated with an enterprise. The system can prepare, with an enterprise anchor point (“EAP”) module managed by a vendor of the software asset, a certificate validation process that uses an enterprise security certificate to ensure the software license is valid for an execution instance of the software asset. The system can instantiate the execution instance of the software asset in the cloud computing environment. The system can validate, by the EAP module, the enterprise security certificate to ensure the software asset is instantiated and used in accordance with the software license.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2019Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: James Fan, Sanjay Agraharam, Steven Polston, Michelle Martens
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Patent number: 11665550Abstract: An overlay of millimeter wave (mmWave)-capable cells are added to a citizens broadband radio service (CBRS) network to provide coverage in a next generation fixed wireless (NGFW) network. The availability of mmWave spectrum, with limited reach, can be utilized as a wireless backhaul for subsequent hops. In one aspect, integrated access front-haul nodes (IAFHNs) that are utilized for mmWave transmissions at a second (and/or subsequent) hop can be deployed with self-aligning receivers. Further, the IAFHNs can facilitate adaptive resource allocation scheduling in an integrated access and backhaul (IAB) chain. In addition, an interface between macro access points can be enhanced to enable the adaptive resource allocation on the IAB chain. In one aspect, a fixed user equipment (UE) can be configured with dual connectivity (DC) and a network operator can offer different tiers of services based on a location of the UE.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2021Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.Inventors: Tony Wah-Tung Wong, Spyridon Kapoulas, Rajeev Jayaram
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Patent number: 11665140Abstract: Distributed firewalls in a network are disclosed. Example firewall controllers disclosed herein are to instruct a first network node of a software-defined network to implement a first firewall instance of a distributed firewall, the first network node to implement the first firewall instance with a first virtual machine. Disclosed example firewall controllers are also to configure a second network node of the software-defined network to route network traffic through the first firewall instance and, after at least some of the network traffic is dropped by the first firewall instance, instruct the second network node to implement a second firewall instance of the distributed firewall, the second network node to implement the second firewall instance with a second virtual machine.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2021Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.Inventors: Dustin Grant, Sandeep Gupta, Sridhar Narahari, Michael J. Satterlee
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Patent number: 11664840Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving, by a first radio module at a first location, a wireless signal, to obtain a first received RF signal. The wireless signal includes information originating at a remote transmitter and conveyed via a wireless channel. An envelope of the first received RF signal is detected by the first radio module without requiring a local oscillator, to obtain a first baseband signal. The first baseband signal may be filtered and/or amplified, after which it is provided to a processor. The processor also obtains a second digital signal from a second radio module receiving the wireless signal at a second location and determines an estimate of the information originating at the remote transmitter according to the first and second signals. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2022Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignees: UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME DU LAC, AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.Inventors: Ralf Bendlin, Jonathan David Chisum, Nicholas Joseph Estes, Bertrand Martyn Hochwald, Aditya Chopra
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Patent number: 11665686Abstract: Facilitating a time-division multiplexing pattern-based solution for a dual-subscriber identity module with a single radio in advanced networks (e.g., 5G, 6G, and beyond) is provided herein. Operations of a method can comprise obtaining, by a network device comprising a processor, multiple time-division multiplexing patterns applicable to a mobile device. The multiple time-division multiplexing patterns indicate respective repeating patterns of an on state and an off state of a defined identity of the mobile device. The method also can comprise facilitating, by the network device, a transmission, to the mobile device, of information indicative of the multiple time-division multiplexing patterns. In an example, the mobile device can be configured to operate with at least two subscriber identity modules.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2022Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.Inventors: Xiaoyi Wang, Ralf Bendlin, Thomas Novlan, Milap Majmundar, Arunabha Ghosh
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Patent number: 11665215Abstract: Personalized content delivery (e.g., using a computerized tool) is enabled. For example, a system can comprise: a processor and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising: determining a quality of service metric representative of a quality of service of streamed content delivered via a content delivery network, determining a quality of experience metric representative of a quality of experience associated with a user profile of a consumer of the streamed content, and based on the quality of service and the quality of experience, modifying the streamed content.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2022Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignees: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P., AT&T MOBILITY II LLCInventors: Eric Zavesky, Jing Guo, Eric Petajan, Jessica Owensby, James Pratt
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Patent number: 11665117Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a service platform that receives a chat request from a client device associated with a user. A chat database of previous chat sessions associated with other users is searched based on the chat request to identify a previous chat session corresponding to the chat request. Chat data corresponding to the previous chat session is retrieved from the chat database and sent to the client device. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2020Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventor: Mazin E. Gilbert
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Patent number: 11665309Abstract: A processing system having at least one processor may establish a communication session between a first communication system of a first user and a second communication system of a second user, the communication session including first video content of a first physical environment of the first user and second video content of a second physical environment of the second user, determine a first visualization action for a first physical object in the first physical environment in accordance with a first configuration setting of the first user for the communication session, obtain the first video content from a first camera of the first communication system, detect the first physical object in the first video content, and perform the first visualization action to modify the first video content. The processing system may then transmit first visualization information including the first video content that is modified to the second communication system.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2022Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Eric Zavesky, Zhu Liu, David Crawford Gibbon, Bernard S. Renger, Behzad Shahraray, Tan Xu
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Patent number: 11665527Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, storing, in a database, subscriber information associated with a plurality of subscribers of a wireless carrier, the subscriber information comprising first subscriber information associated with a first subscriber of the wireless carrier, the first subscriber information comprising first configuration data for a first router of the first subscriber, the first router being located at a first physical location; wirelessly receiving from a second router of the first subscriber, via a wireless service of the wireless carrier, a first registration request made by the second router, the second router being located at a second physical location; responsive to receiving the first registration request, generating first provisioning information, the first provisioning information being based at least in part upon the first configuration data for the first router that is stored in the database; and wirelessly sending to the second router, via the wireless servType: GrantFiled: November 10, 2021Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Arturo Barraza Lopez, Eduardo Bolivar Gaytan
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Patent number: 11665377Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device having a processing system including a processor; and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations including receiving encrypted hypertext transport protocol (HTTPS) traffic including media content; separating the HTTPS traffic into audio segments and video segments; calculating a size for each audio segment in the HTTPS traffic; maintaining a sliding window of a plurality of sizes of consecutive audio segments to form a fingerprint; and identifying the media content by matching the fingerprint with a reference in a catalog. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2021Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Yuan Ding, Natalia Schenck, Daniel Sanchez, Umut Akyol, Lawrence E. Bakst, Vinay Sharma
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Patent number: 11665616Abstract: A software defined network controller receives from a radio access network access point an attach request generated by a user equipment that includes a user equipment identification and an IP address for the radio access network access point. The controller assigns a temporary identification to the user equipment and sends a modified attach request including the temporary identification, and application server identification and an application server IP address to the radio access network access point. The controller configures a forwarding table associated with the radio access network access point so that the access point forwarding table matches the user equipment identification, the application server identification and the application server IP address. The controller configures a service edge creation environment function forwarding table so that the forwarding table matches the user equipment identification mapped to the radio access network access point IP address.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2021Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Zhi Cui, Jiansong Wang, Thomas Anschutz
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Patent number: 11665531Abstract: The end-to-end troubleshooting system may use machine learning models to predict the network quality degradation and provide resolution recommendations. The end-to-end troubleshooting system may be a self-evolving closed loop system that helps monitor the network health, provide real-time prediction of network health, and anticipate potential network outages. This intelligent system may provide recommendation resolutions based on the analysis of prediction results.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2020Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Yu Liu, Baofeng Jiang, Yuhong Zheng, Hyun Ok Lee
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Publication number: 20230161072Abstract: The concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed towards a predictive hydrological impact diagnosis system. According to one aspect disclosed herein, the system can obtain weather data associated with an area. The weather data can include an interval rainfall forecast and a total accumulated rainfall forecast for the area. The system can execute a flood index algorithm using the interval rainfall forecast and the total accumulated rainfall forecast. In response to executing the flood index algorithm, the system can obtain an output of the flood index algorithm. The output can include flood index data for the area. The system can plot the flood index data on a graph to show a forecasted rainfall intensity over a time. The system can determine hydrological potential energy data for the area. This data is representative of a cumulative area of the graph that is above a predetermined threshold value.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 23, 2021Publication date: May 25, 2023Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Daniel Addington, Christopher Maltese, Eli Siegel
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Publication number: 20230160706Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, generating a graph having nodes corresponding to garages, and edges corresponding to distances between pairs of garages that store moveable assets. A complexity of the graph in terms of nodes and/or edges is reduced, e.g., by segmenting the graph into sub-graphs, to obtain a modified graph. For each sub-graph, utilization values of the moveable assets are estimated for each node and metrics are calculated as pairwise differences between estimated utilizations less twice the distance between the corresponding garages. Candidate node pairs are identified as having metric values greater than zero. Node assets are ordered according to utilizations and a transfer recommendation is identified according to a garage pair having a maximum metric and an asset pair utilization having maximum difference. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 23, 2021Publication date: May 25, 2023Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Rudolph L. Mappus, IV, Debashish Bhattacharjee, Shane McCord
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Patent number: 11658851Abstract: The disclosed subject matter relates to employing modulation layer mapping to improve the performance of multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) communication systems. In one embodiment, a method comprises determining, by a device comprising a processor, codeword information in association with establishment of a wireless communication link with a network device of a wireless communication network, wherein the device and the network device are configured to communicate via the communication link using a MIMO communication scheme. The determining the codeword information comprises determining a code rate and determining a number of modulation indexes for the code rate based on signal-to-noise ratios respectively associated with channel layers included in the MIMO communication scheme. The method further comprises sending, by the device, the codeword information to the network device via a control channel of the wireless communication link.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2022Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.Inventors: SaiRamesh Nammi, Arunabha Ghosh, Xiaoyi Wang
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Patent number: 11658879Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining a model of a communication network, applying first data to the model to generate an updated model, processing the updated model to establish a first control, enabling first communications in the communication network in accordance with the first control, obtaining first parametric data regarding the first communications in the communication network that are based on the first control, processing the first parametric data in accordance with the updated model to generate an updated first control, and enabling second communications in the communication network in accordance with the updated first control. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2021Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Cagatay Buyukkoc, Reuben Klein, Vimal Begwani, John F. Murray, Paul Edward Smith, Jr., Rittwik Jana
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Patent number: 11657086Abstract: A monitored space is monitored including the production of a first audio signal from received acoustic energy. The first audio signal is then processed against a whitelist of acoustic profiles and, based on lack of substantial correspondence with any of the acoustic profiles, a drone is navigated toward an apparent position of an apparent source. While in-flight, additional acoustic energy is received and a second audio signal is produced from the additional acoustic energy. The second audio signal is processed against the whitelist and, based on lack of substantial correspondence with any of the acoustic profiles of the whitelist, an investigate mode of the drone is initiated. The investigate mode includes notifying a remote monitor and supplying the remote monitor with an audiovisual feed. Responsive to a characterization by the remote monitor, an entry of the whitelist may be updated, added or replaced.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2021Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.Inventors: James H. Pratt, Gregory Edwards
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Patent number: 11658843Abstract: Full-duplex communications are provided by modifying the Media Access Control sub-layer of communication node protocols. The modification allows communication nodes to communicate with one another in full-duplex, where each node transmits and receives data simultaneously with other nodes in a single frequency. A timing of the simultaneous data transmissions, acknowledgments, and short-interframe-space waiting periods can be determined based on network-allocation-vector data transmitted in association with request-to-send or clear-to-send signals.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2021Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.Inventors: Vaneet Aggarwal, Rittwik Jana, Christopher W. Rice, Nemmara K. Shankaranarayanan
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Patent number: 11658697Abstract: Embodiments for port reconfiguration for passive intermodulation interference mitigation are presented herein. A base station device comprises a signal processing component comprising a passive intermodulation interference component and an antenna configuration component. The passive intermodulation interference component determines passive intermodulation interference corresponding to uplink signals that have been received, via a configurable cellular antenna array of the base station device, from respective wireless devices of a group of wireless devices that have been communicatively coupled to the base station device. The antenna configuration component selects a defined configuration of a group of cellular antenna ports of the configurable cellular antenna array to facilitate a reduction of the passive intermodulation interference corresponding to the uplink signals.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2020Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignees: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P., AT&T Mobility II LLCInventors: Ernest Tsui, Michael Taylor, Weihua Ye, Young Suh, Paul Maxwell, Guanying Ru, James Hollister
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Patent number: 11656619Abstract: Example methods and systems are disclosed to provide autonomous vehicle sensor security. An example method may include generating, by a first autonomous vehicle, a first map instance of a physical environment using first environmental information generated by a first sensor of a first autonomous vehicle. A second map instance from at least one of a second autonomous vehicle located in the physical environment is received. The first map instance may be correlated with the second map instance. In response to a discrepancy between the first map instance and the second map instance, a secure sensor may be activated to generate a third map instance. In response to the third map instance verifying that the discrepancy accurately describes the physical environment, the first environmental information including the discrepancy is used to navigate the first autonomous vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2021Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.Inventors: Joseph Soryal, Dylan C. Reid
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Patent number: 11658739Abstract: Architectures and techniques are presented that improve or enhance a network planning procedure such as by selecting a more efficient test buffer that is used to identify objects that might intersect a Fresnel zone between two transceivers. An improved test buffer (e.g., buffer region) can be one that is constructed from a plurality of rectangles situated along a line of sight of the two transceivers and that are oriented according to cardinal directions.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2022Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.Inventors: Velin Kounev, Arun Jotshi, Krystian Czapiga, Yaron Kanza
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Patent number: 11657852Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining, at a first location, media content capturing an event occurring at a capture location. The media content is analyzed proximal to the first location to obtain an analysis result, a context of the event is determined, and a rule is applied according to the context to obtain a rule application. The media content is modified according to the rule application to obtain a modified media content adapted for distribution to a media consumer at a second location, while preventing distribution of the media content for consumption by the media consumer. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2022Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Eric Zavesky, James H. Pratt
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Patent number: 11658422Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include a generator that facilitates generation of an electromagnetic wave, a core, and a waveguide that facilitates guiding the electromagnetic wave towards the core to induce a second electromagnetic wave that propagates along the core. The core and/or the waveguide can be configured to reduce radiation loss of the second electromagnetic wave, propagation loss of the second electromagnetic wave, or a combination thereof. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2021Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Paul Shala Henry, Thomas M. Willis, III, Robert Bennett, Farhad Barzegar, Irwin Gerszberg, Donald J. Barnickel
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Patent number: 11657871Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, applying a setting voltage across first and second electrodes, wherein a nanowire with a first electrical resistance is electrically connected between the first and second electrodes, wherein the applying of the setting voltage causes a migration of ions from the first and/or second electrodes to a surface of the nanowire, and wherein the migration of ions effectuates a reduction of electrical resistance of the nanowire from the first electrical resistance to a second electrical resistance that is lower than the first electrical resistance; and applying a reading voltage across the pair of electrodes, wherein the reading voltage is less than the setting voltage, and wherein the reading voltage is sufficiently small such that the applying of the reading voltage causes no more than an insignificant change of the electrical resistance of the nanowire from the second electrical resistance. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2021Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Sheldon Kent Meredith, Yevgeniy Puzyrev, William C. Cottrill
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Patent number: 11657705Abstract: Concepts and technologies directed to an integrated telecommunications roadside unit for supporting vehicle-to-everything (“V2X”) communications are disclosed herein. Embodiments of an integrated telecommunications roadside unit can include a processor and a memory that store computer-executable instructions that configure a processor to perform operations. The operations can include intercepting a vehicle-to-vehicle communication that is provided from a first vehicle to a second vehicle. The vehicle-to-vehicle communication can be transmitted using a direct transmission mode. The operations can further include encapsulating the vehicle-to-vehicle communication in a user plane package. The operations can also include routing the user plane package to a destination network access node, where the destination network access node is outside of a direct communication range corresponding to the first vehicle and the second vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2021Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignees: AT&T Mobility II LLC, AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.Inventors: Zachery Carter, Roger Mahler, Erie Lai Har Lau, Sangar Dowlatkhah
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Patent number: 11659495Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining a reference signal, power information regarding the reference signal, and maximum power threshold for the communication device from a base station over a communication network. Further embodiments can include measuring a power of reference signal obtained from the base station resulting in a measure power, and determining a path loss between the base station and the communication device based on the measured power. Additional embodiments can include adjusting the antenna array to generate a coarse power adjustment for the communication device based on the path loss and the maximum power threshold, and providing a transmission signal to the base station according to the coarse power adjustment over the communication network. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2022Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Yupeng Jia, Yizhe Zhang, Ronald W. Borsato
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Patent number: 11658762Abstract: The gains with non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) for uplink data transmissions can be high when chosen codes are orthogonal. However, when codes are non-orthogonal, the gains can be low. NOMA can be used when there is more than one mobile device using the same resources. Since orthogonal codes cannot be possible for every length, codes which have low cross-correlation properties can be used. However, when there are a large number of mobile devices using the same resources, the cross-correlation between the codes can cause interference to the mobile devices. Reducing the gains of a NOMA system can reduce the overall throughput. Thus, transmitting data on the same resources in a NOMA can occur in spite of the interference to the UEs transmitting data on the same resources. Therefore, a non-orthogonal multiple access design for a 5G network can mitigate interference.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2021Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.Inventors: SaiRamesh Nammi, Arunabha Ghosh, Saeed Ghassemzadeh
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Patent number: 11659357Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a network device that comprises a processing system including a processor and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations. The operations include obtaining timing advance data regarding a communication device served by the network; the timing advance data is collected by a network element coupled to the network device, and the network element communicates with the communication device using control-plane signaling. The timing advance data is processed using location data regarding the network element to determine a geolocation of the communication device. The geolocation is stored at a storage device; the network device and storage device are included in a secure portion of the network. The geolocation is provided to equipment of a network customer accessing the secure portion of the network via a secure interface. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2021Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Mobility II LLCInventors: Jeff Bartlett, Jordan Alexander, Thomas Becker
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Patent number: 11659053Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses, for real-time operation control, among other things. There may be adjustments to a first device in which a first network service operates. The adjustment to the device may include moving a second network service of the first device to a second device. The first network service and the second network service may be associated with virtual machines.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2022Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Gregory Glover, John Oetting, George Dome
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Patent number: 11658967Abstract: Artificial biometric traits self-nullify due to natural physiological processes. Biometric enrollment and authentication may then be based on a life associated with the self-nullifying biometric trait. Once the life is expected to have expired, no further authentication may be performed until a new artificial biometric is applied.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2021Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventor: Julio A. Cartaya
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Patent number: 11659232Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device that includes a processing system including a processor and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations, where the operations include receiving a request from a viewer of a content stream to pause the content stream, displaying a pause screen, requesting an advertisement to display during the pause of the content stream, retrieving content for the advertisement, and displaying the advertisement as an overlay on the pause screen. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2022Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Interwise Ltd.Inventors: Erez A. Korn, Hans Fischmann, Matthew Van Houten, Rinat Zilberstein, Yehuda Volk, Yair Gil, Dror Yashar
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Patent number: 11659407Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving a first plurality of operating parameters associated with a first plurality of communication devices, obtaining a first prediction of a performance of a first communication device included in the first plurality of communication devices that is based on an application of the first plurality of operating parameters to a model, and responsive to a determination that the first prediction of the performance is inadequate in accordance with a first threshold, transmitting a first command to at least one communication device included in the first plurality of communication devices to modify at least one operating parameter of the at least one communication device. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2021Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Zhengye Liu, Donglin Hu, Yali Liu, Jin Wang
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Patent number: 11659216Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a processing system of a communication node routing data packets for a first streaming session between a viewer node of a plurality of viewer nodes and a content streaming server through the communication node without interrupting delivery of content data to the viewer node, establishing a second streaming session with the content streaming server to receive the content data, creating a first and second replacement connections by imitating a connections with the content streaming server and the viewer node, receiving a control packet over the second streaming session from the content streaming server, and splitting the first streaming session responsive to receiving the control packet. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2021Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Shu Shi, Rittwik Jana, Bo Yan
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Patent number: 11659373Abstract: A method, computer-readable medium, and apparatus for transmitting a unicast message comprising a message content of a wireless emergency alert message to an endpoint device that did not receive the wireless emergency alert message are disclosed. For example, a processing system of a cellular network including at least one processor may receive a request to broadcast a wireless emergency alert message, where the request comprises an alert area and a message content, broadcast the wireless emergency alert message in the alert area, where the wireless emergency alert message includes the message content, obtain a notification that a first endpoint device did not receive the wireless emergency alert message, and transmit a unicast message comprising the message content to the first endpoint device.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2020Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventor: Sreejith Menon
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Patent number: 11659434Abstract: The described technology is generally directed towards a transport protocol for latency sensitive applications. The disclosed transport protocol is “semi-reliable” in that it allows for specification of an importance of data being transmitted, thereby allowing important data to be sent reliably, while other data can be dropped if necessary, e.g., under bad network conditions. A deadline can be specified for such other data, and if the other data cannot be sent prior to the deadline, it can be dropped. Furthermore, the disclosed transport protocol can allow for early discovery of network jitter. A client device can send regular acknowledgments which identify most recently received data packets as well as a number of “heartbeat transmissions” received at the client device. A server device can use the acknowledgments to discover and respond to jitter.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2022Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.Inventors: Shu Shi, Rittwik Jana, Bo Han, Bo Chen
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Patent number: 11658938Abstract: A content filtering system and method includes receiving in a network device in a network from a user device, a user selected set of rules identifying a set of URLs to be blocked. The set of rules are loaded into the network device. The network device receives from the user device a request to access a specified URL. A determination is made at the network device whether the specified URL is in the user selected set of rules. If the specified URL is in the user selected set of rules, then the specified URL is blocked.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2021Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignees: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P., AT&T Mobility II LLCInventors: Mark Austin, Shahab Azmoudeh, Joseph Dorsey, Victor Nilson, Christopher Sambar, Jerald Weber
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Patent number: 11656361Abstract: Selective broadcast of corrective vehicle positioning information using a hyper-precise-positioning (HPP) proxy is presented herein. A system can obtain satellite navigation correction data; assign respective portions of the satellite navigation correction data to defined geographical regions to facilitate respective point-to-multipoint wireless broadcasts of the respective portions of the satellite navigation correction data to respective vehicles that have been determined to be located within the defined geographical regions; and distribute, via respective signaling planes, broadcast requests comprising the respective portions of the satellite navigation correction data to respective wireless access point devices to facilitate the respective point-to-multipoint wireless broadcasts of the respective portions of the satellite navigation correction data—such satellite navigation correction data facilitating correction of satellite navigation data that has been received by the respective vehicles.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2022Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignees: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P., AT&T Mobility II LLCInventors: Julius Mueller, Erie Lai Har Lau, Reza Hussain Hussaini, Hendrawan Susanto
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Patent number: 11659415Abstract: Facilitating antenna farm intelligent software defined networking enabled dynamic resource controller networks (e.g., 5G, 6G, and beyond) is provided herein. Operations of a system can comprise evaluating a condition, the condition being at a mobile device, and a characteristic related to a defined network service associated with a connection to the mobile device. The operations can also comprise selectively modifying a quantity of antennas utilized to provide the connection to the mobile device based on the condition being determined to influence a level of service associated with the defined network service.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2020Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignees: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P., AT&T MOBILITY II LLCInventors: Sangar Dowlatkhah, Zhi Cui, Paul Smith, Jr.
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Patent number: 11658969Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving, by a processing system including a processor that is operative in a first communication network, a certificate from a communication device that is operative in a second communication network, extracting, by the processing system, an identifier of the communication device from the certificate, authenticating, by the processing system, the communication device in accordance with the identifier, comparing, by the processing system, the identifier with a plurality of identifiers to determine that the communication device is authorized to access data, resulting in an authorization determination, and transmitting, by the processing system, the data to the communication device based on the authorization determination. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2020Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Timothy Yao, Christopher Bryant, Qun Wei
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Patent number: 11654372Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining portions of video content from a video game from video game server(s) associated with a video game provider, selecting a first portion of video content from the portions of the video content, and providing the first portion to device(s) associated with viewer(s). Each device presents the first portion of the video content. Further embodiments include obtaining popularity information from the device(s) according to feedback based on presenting the first portion of the video content to the device(s), determining that the popularity information satisfies a popularity threshold associated with the video content, determining a subject matter corresponding to the first portion of the video content, and identifying a second portion of the video content from the video game to be recorded according to the subject matter. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2021Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: David Crawford Gibbon, Jean-Francois Paiement, Lee Begeja, Jianxiong Dong, Tan Xu, Eric Zavesky
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Patent number: 11659492Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method in which a processing system of a first network element receives information indicating that a user equipment (UE) support dual connectivity with first and second inter-radio access technologies (IRATs). The UE is enabled to communicate with a second network element using the second IRAT. The system provides to the UE uplink power configurations for data transmissions between the UE and the network elements, and performs a closed loop control procedure that includes determining a first transmit power control (TPC) value for first data transmissions from the UE and a second TPC value for second data transmissions from the UE, and adjusting the first TPC value and the second TPC value to allocate UE uplink transmission power between the first IRAT and the second IRAT. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2021Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Technical Services Company, Inc.Inventors: Daniel Vivanco, Slawomir Stawiarski, David Ross Beppler
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Patent number: 11659238Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving, over a communication network, a plurality of requests for frames of video content to provide to a mobile device. Further embodiments can include determining a first portion of the plurality of requests are for pre-fetch frames of the video content, and providing, over the communication network, the pre-fetch frames to the mobile device over a default bearer path. Additional embodiments can include determining a second portion of the plurality of requests are for emergent frames of the video content, and providing, over the communication network, the emergent frames to the mobile device over a dedicated bearer path. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2022Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Zhehui Zhang, Shu Shi, Rittwik Jana, Varun Gupta