AT&T Patent Applications

AT&T patent applications that are pending before the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20240007909
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, identifying a communication device communicatively coupled to a serving base station, requesting a device type associated with the communication device from the serving base station, and determining the communication device comprises an unmanned aerial vehicle based on the device type. Further embodiments can include generating a customized radio resource control (RRC) reconfiguration message based on the communication device comprising the unmanned aerial vehicle, and transmitting the customized RRC reconfiguration message to the communication device via the serving base station. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Applicant: AT&T Technical Services Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Daniel Vivanco
  • Publication number: 20240007941
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, identifying a communication device communicatively coupled to a serving base station, requesting a device type associated with the communication device from the serving base station, and determining the communication device comprises an unmanned aerial vehicle based on the device type. Further embodiments can include obtaining a geolocation of the communication device based on the communication device comprising the unmanned aerial vehicle, generating a customized radio resource control (RRC) reconfiguration message, which includes a reportCGI object that involves setting a discontinuous sleep state timer, which stops the data transmission and reception of the communication device with the serving base station. During this discontinuous sleep state timer, the communication device disconnects to its serving base station to read and decode the ECGI of base station associated with neighboring cells. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Applicant: AT&T Technical Services Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Daniel Vivanco
  • Publication number: 20240005082
    Abstract: Concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to embedding texts to high dimensional vectors in natural language processing (“NLP”). According to one aspect, an NLP system can receive an input text that includes n number of words. The NLP system can encode the input text into a first matrix using a word embedding algorithm, such as Word2Vec algorithm. The NLP system can encode the input text into the Word2Vec by embedding each word in the n number of words of the input text into a k-dimensional Word2Vec vector using the Word2Vec algorithm. The NLP system also can decode the first matrix into a second matrix using a text embedding algorithm. In some embodiments, the second matrix is a congruence derivative matrix. The NLP system can then output the second matrix to a machine learning module that implements a machine learning technique such as short text classification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Applicant: AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Changchuan Yin, Shahzad Saeed
  • Publication number: 20240007210
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a machine-readable medium with executable instructions that facilitate performance of operations by a processor including receiving a registration for a trajectory of a satellite; estimating a zone of occupancy at a future time for the satellite; determining an interference of the satellite from the zone of occupancy at the future time; determining a deconfliction for minimizing or eliminating the interference; and sending the deconfliction to a controller of the satellite. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Eric Zavesky, James H. Pratt, Nigel Bradley, David Crawford Gibbon, Timothy Innes
  • Publication number: 20230421200
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media for facilitating operations. The operations may include transmitting a first electromagnetic wave, where the first electromagnetic wave is guided by and propagates along a first transmission medium without requiring an electrical return path, and transmitting a second electromagnetic wave, where the second electromagnetic wave is guided by and propagates along a second transmission medium without requiring the electrical return path, the second transmission medium being different from the first transmission medium. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2022
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Donald J. Barnickel, Robert Bennett, Irwin Gerszberg, Farhad Barzegar, Thomas M. Willis, III, Peter Wolniansky
  • Publication number: 20230421646
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining information regarding a metaverse object and data regarding network resources, deriving a mapping between the metaverse object and one or more of the network resources based on the information and the data, and providing a hybrid service design and orchestration (H-SDO) system with access to the mapping to facilitate selection of particular network resources for supporting one or more metaverse service requests relating to the metaverse object. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2022
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventor: Zhi Cui
  • Publication number: 20230419235
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining first positional information comprising a location of a non-stationary entity mobile within an environment, the first positional information obtained from a service provider monitoring a positional status of the non-stationary entity within the environment. A path of the non-stationary entity is predicted according to the first positional information. A delivery device mobile within the environment is directed according to the predicted path to deliver an item to the non-stationary entity. Second positional information is obtained, identifying a location of the delivery device within the environment. A separation distance is calculated between the location of the non-stationary entity and the location of the delivery device within the environment and a delivery opportunity is detected based upon the separation distance not exceeding a threshold distance. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Zhi Cui, Hongyan Lei
  • Publication number: 20230421448
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a network system, comprising a plurality of access networks including access network resources, a plurality of transport networks including transport network resources, a plurality of core networks including core network resources, and a hybrid software-defined network (H-SDN), wherein the access network resources, the transport network resources, and the core network resources are abstracted into respective universal resource ports, resulting in a plurality of universal resource ports, and wherein the H-SDN leverages metaverse resources and select universal resource ports of the plurality of universal resource ports to facilitate end-to-end metaverse service delivery. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2022
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Zhi Cui, Hongyan Lei, Ye Chen
  • Publication number: 20230422157
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method in which a processing system creates a network element by consolidating a control plane including a combination of a plurality of 5G control plane functions and a plurality of IMS control plane functions with an associated user plane including a combination of a 5G user plane function (UPF) and one or more IMS user plane functions. The method also includes deploying the network element at a network edge of the service provider network, receiving a request from a user endpoint (UE) device for a network service, and attaching the UE to the network element. The network element is configured to facilitate providing the requested network service. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Chaoxin Qiu, Min Lu, Eric Ashby
  • Publication number: 20230412622
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining a first group of Internet Protocol (IP) addresses from a group of network devices, and determining a second group of IP addresses from the first group of IP addresses includes possible malicious IP addresses utilizing a machine learning application. Further embodiments can include obtaining a first group of attributes of malicious IP addresses from a first repository, and determining a third group of IP addresses from the second group of IP addresses includes possible malicious IP addresses based on the first group of attributes. Additional embodiments can include receiving user-generated input indicating a fourth group of IP addresses from the third group of IP addresses includes possible malicious IP addresses, and transmitting a notification to a group of communication devices indicating that the fourth group of IP address includes possible malicious IP addresses. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2022
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Srivathsan Srinivasagopalan, Ganesh Subramaniam, Robert Archibald
  • Publication number: 20230413137
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure may include identifying, by a processing system including a processor, a type of a communication service being provided to a communication device, wherein the communication service is facilitated via a first signal that is transmitted to the communication device, the first signal having a first frequency, determining, by the processing system, a degree of a mobility of the communication device relative to a communication range of a first frequency band, the first frequency included in the first frequency band, and causing, by the processing system and based on the type of the communication service and the degree of the mobility of the communication device, a second signal to be transmitted to the communication device as part of the communication service, wherein the second signal has a second frequency included in a second frequency band that is different from the first frequency band. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2022
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Hongyan Lei, Yupeng Jia
  • Publication number: 20230410159
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining contextual information associated with a user, wherein the user is engaged in an immersive environment using a target user device, and wherein the contextual information comprises user profile data, data regarding a location of the user, data regarding one or more inputs provided by the user, or a combination thereof, receiving data regarding a metaverse object in the immersive environment, determining a relevance of the metaverse object to the user based on the contextual information and the data regarding the metaverse object, responsive to the determining the relevance of the metaverse object to the user, generating a personalized recommendation or review of the metaverse object for the user, and causing the personalized recommendation or review to be provided to the user in the immersive environment for user consumption. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2022
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Eric Zavesky, Jean-Francois Paiement, Aritra Guha, Qiong Wu, Wen-Ling Hsu, Jianxiong Dong, Tan Xu
  • Publication number: 20230413307
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a broadband modem that includes a wireless modem and a wireline modem. A traffic integrate and split unit (TISU) within the broadband modem may split uplink data between the wireless and wireline connection based on a scheduling criteria. The TISU may also integrate or combine downlink data received by the wireless and wireline modems. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Weidong Allen Hu, Prabhakara Aithal
  • Publication number: 20230413189
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, methods and apparatus to configure low power transmitters that operate in unlicensed 6 GHz spectrum in an effort to reduce the likelihood that the low power transmitters will cause interference to incumbent operators of fixed microwave links in the same 6 GHz spectrum. The low power transmitters may be any transmitter in the unlicensed spectrum, including for example, low power indoor access points, 5G small cells, and the like. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2022
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventor: Feng Wang
  • Publication number: 20230403549
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device comprising: 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 comprising: receiving, based upon a first communication between first user equipment and a first wireless network, a first temporary identifier of the first user equipment; correlating the first temporary identifier to a first permanent identifier of the first user equipment; tracking a first amount of data that is carried by the first wireless network and that is associated with the first user equipment, resulting in first tracked data usage, wherein the tracking is based upon the correlating of the first temporary identifier to the first permanent identifier; determining whether the first tracked data usage exceeds a first threshold, resulting in a first determination; and responsive to the first determination being that the first tracked d
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2022
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicants: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Howard Lang, Jasminka Dizdarevic, Willem DuPlessis, Joseph Soryal, Nicholas Thompson, Marcus Thor
  • Publication number: 20230401642
    Abstract: The concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to incentivized rental vehicle return. According to one aspect disclosed herein, a user device can determine a return location and a return date for a rental vehicle that is subject to an existing vehicle rental agreement between a user and a rental company. The user device can calculate a return on investment (“ROI”) for the return location and the return date in consideration of an incentive to be provided to the user, compare the ROI to an initial ROI based on the existing vehicle rental agreement, and determine whether the ROI is greater than the initial ROI. The user device also can present, to the user, a return option that identifies the return location, the return date, and the incentive when the ROI is greater than the initial ROI.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2022
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Wasib Khallil, Iftekhar Alam, Bhumit Patel, Jonathan Chang
  • Publication number: 20230403096
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining, by a processing system including a processor, a first broadcast message, wherein the first broadcast message includes a value for a parameter associated with a first frequency band, determining, by the processing system and based on the value, that the processing system is not configured to use the first frequency band as part of communications in a network, and subsequent to the determining, the processing system refraining from scanning for an availability of the first frequency band within the network. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2022
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Hongyan Lei, Yupeng Jia
  • Publication number: 20230402056
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device, including a processing system including a processor; and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations of receiving an original audio signal for an interval; creating a time-series graphical image of the original audio signal for the interval; compressing the time-series graphical image, thereby creating a reduced resolution image; recreating a retrieved audio signal from the reduced resolution image; determining whether a comparison of the retrieved audio signal to the original audio signal meets a quality threshold; responsive to meeting the quality threshold, compressing the reduced resolution image further and repeating the recreating and determining steps; and transmitting a last reduced resolution image that meets the quality threshold. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2022
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventor: Joseph Soryal
  • Publication number: 20230396503
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, generating a topological representation of a first portion of a communication network, obtaining data via an activation of a probe, wherein the data corresponds to an indicator of performance within the first portion of the communication network, modifying the topological representation to include a value corresponding to the indicator of the performance, resulting in a modified topological representation, and presenting the modified topological representation via an input/output device. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2022
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Seyed Hashemi, Harish Chalageri
  • Publication number: 20230396596
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device, including: a processing system including a processor; and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations of allocating a port for receiving a request to access a resource of a second device, wherein the second device has a non-routable network address, wherein the device is on a first network, wherein the second device is on a third network, and wherein the first network and the third network are communicatively coupled by the second network; opening a second connection to a network element on the second network responsive to receiving a first connection; sending a first message to the network element to create a meeting with the resource; and sending a Geocast message requesting that the second device create a third connection that enables access to the resource, wherein the Geocast message identifies a geographic area in which the second device is physically
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2022
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventor: Robert J. Hall
  • Publication number: 20230394488
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method that includes registering, by a processing system including a processor, a first financial compliance app (FCA) executing on a first user device and a second FCA executing on a second user device; communicating with the first and second user devices to facilitate a transaction between the user devices that includes disposition of a cryptocurrency asset; receiving a report of the transaction from the first and second FCAs; recording information regarding the transaction; and generating an accounting report, a taxation report, a compliance report, and/or a user report regarding the transaction. The first and/or second user device provides a virtual environment; the processing system includes application program interfaces (APIs) for communicating with the first and second user devices; and the first and/or second FCA determines applicable rules relating to the transaction. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2022
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Joseph Soryal, Howard Lang, Satyendra Tripathi
  • Publication number: 20230396515
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device, including: a processing system including a processor; and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations of identifying a public land mobile network (PLMN) identifier associated with a communications network; determining a tracking area code (TAC) range of a plurality of cell sites in a radio access network (RAN) associated with the PLMN identifier; identifying transport network circuits of a transport network connecting the plurality of cell sites with a core network of the communications network; and displaying a user interface comprising a graphical representation of the core network, the transport network and the RAN. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2022
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventor: Seyed Hashemi
  • Publication number: 20230388893
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device comprising: 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 comprising: determining that the device will be communicating as a remote user equipment (UE) with a wireless access point of a network via a relay UE, wherein the relay UE is configured to forward first communications from the device when the device is operating as the remote UE to the wireless access point, and wherein the relay UE is configured to forward second communications from the wireless access point to the device when the device is operating as the remote UE; creating a message indicative of the device operating as the remote UE, the message conforming to a communication protocol; and transmitting the message to the relay UE. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventor: Weidong Allen Hu
  • Publication number: 20230388761
    Abstract: Concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to autonomous vehicle pairing management. According to one aspect disclosed herein, a fleet pairing management application executed by a processor of an autonomous vehicle can initiate a fleet pairing process with a plurality of other autonomous vehicles, each of which can execute one of a plurality of other fleet pairing management applications. The fleet pairing management application can send, over a network, an initiate network pairing request to the plurality of other autonomous vehicles. The fleet pairing management application can receive a confirm network pairing response from at least one other autonomous vehicle of the plurality of other autonomous vehicles. A fleet can then be established. The fleet can include the autonomous vehicle and the at least one other autonomous vehicle of the plurality of other autonomous vehicles. The autonomous vehicles in the fleet can then share data among the fleet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Joseph Soryal, Howard L. Lang
  • Publication number: 20230388764
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device comprising: 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 comprising: obtaining a list of a plurality of known cell sites, the list comprising for each known cell site of the plurality of known cell sites a respective set of known geospatial coordinates; obtaining for each set of known geospatial coordinates, a corresponding aerial image; applying each corresponding aerial image to an automated process to generate a model, the model being usable to determine whether a particular test aerial image depicts a cell site; obtaining from a database an identification of an asserted cell site, the identification of the asserted cell site comprising a set of asserted geospatial coordinates; obtaining for the set of asserted geospatial coordinates, a test aerial image; applying the test aerial image to the mo
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Manoop Talasila, Syed Anwar Aftab, Leimeng Shi, Mukesh Mantan
  • Publication number: 20230388570
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include a method including steps of, for each segment of a content item during presentation of a content item, obtaining current consumption context information, determining a current consumption context for the segment according to the consumption context information, selecting a filtered set of audio track and video track variants for the segment according to the current consumption context and track variant information, selecting an audio track and a video track for the segment from the filtered set of audio track and video track variants according to a dynamic network condition, receiving a data stream for the segment from a server over a network including the audio track and the video track for the segment, and presenting the segment of the content item according to the audio track and the video track via a video output and an audio output. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2022
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicants: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., University of Connecticut
    Inventors: Subhabrata Sen, Bing Wang, Chinmaey Shende, Cheon Jin Park
  • Publication number: 20230388796
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device, including a processing system including a processor; and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations of authenticating an identity of a user of user equipment that controls a virtual entity in a virtual environment; receiving a data feed providing images from the virtual environment; correlating signals from the user equipment with actions of the virtual entity observed in the images; and issuing a warning responsive to the user being unidentified or the signals being uncorrelated with the actions. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Joseph Soryal, Dylan Reid
  • Publication number: 20230385653
    Abstract: 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: selecting a first building block pattern function (bbDNA) having a first weight from a catalog, wherein the first bbDNA is based on a first mature pattern reaching a first bbDNA frequency threshold, wherein the first bbDNA is associated with at least one machine learning (ML) model of a plurality of ML models; selecting a second bbDNA having a second weight from the catalog, wherein the second bbDNA is associated with at least one ML model in the plurality of ML models; and creating a new ML model based on a combination of the first bbDNA and the second bbDNA. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Mukundan Sarukkai, Eshrat Huda
  • Publication number: 20230379128
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, methods and apparatus to configure low power transmitters that operate in unlicensed 6 GHz spectrum in an effort to reduce the likelihood that the low power transmitters will cause interference to incumbent operators of fixed microwave links in the same 6 GHz spectrum. The low power transmitters may be any transmitter in the unlicensed spectrum, including for example, low power indoor access points, 5G small cells, and the like. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2022
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventor: Feng Wang
  • Publication number: 20230379840
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, methods and apparatus to configure low power transmitters that operate in unlicensed 6 GHz spectrum in an effort to reduce the likelihood that the low power transmitters will cause interference to incumbent operators of fixed microwave links in the same 6 GHz spectrum. The low power transmitters may be any transmitter in the unlicensed spectrum, including for example, low power indoor access points, 5G small cells, and the like. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2022
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventor: Feng Wang
  • Publication number: 20230379724
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, identifying a private cellular network that includes a group of wireless communication devices and a private cellular service area in which the group of wireless communication devices may receive a private cellular network service. A radio access network (RAN) of a group of RANs in communication with a mobile core network of a public mobile cellular network is configured to provide a wireless coverage area that contains an entirety of the private cellular service area. A virtual machine is configured as a private cellular network controller that is adapted to provide the private cellular network service to wireless communication devices of the private cellular network group operating within the service area. The private cellular network service does not utilize the mobile core network. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2022
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventor: Joseph Soryal
  • Publication number: 20230370889
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining input data, processing the input data to generate output data, the output data including an identification of one or more characteristics associated with tethered communications involving at least a first user equipment, and based on the identification of the one or more characteristics, causing an action to be taken. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2022
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Vinay Sharma, Natalia Schenck, Yuan Ding, Pradeep K. Bansal
  • Publication number: 20230368636
    Abstract: Embodiments of this disclosure may include monitoring, via a circuit, a level of a current, detecting, based on the monitoring, that the level of the current exceeds a threshold, where the threshold is indicative of an occurrence of at least one event, engaging, based on the detecting, a health check in respect of: a first component of a first waveguide device, a second component of a second waveguide device, a portion of a transmission medium between the first waveguide device and the second waveguide device, or any combination thereof, where the transmission medium is utilized to convey a first electromagnetic wave that is guided by and propagates along the transmission medium without requiring an electrical return path, and transmitting, based on the engaging, a report, a signal, or a combination thereof, that is indicative of a health status resulting from the health check. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2022
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Donald J. Barnickel, Robert Bennett, Thomas M. Willis, III, Irwin Gerszberg, Farhad Barzegar, Peter Wolniansky
  • Publication number: 20230371096
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, analyzing data in accordance with at least one algorithm to select one of carrier aggregation or dual connectivity for providing a communication service in respect of a communication device, resulting in a selection, and providing the communication service to the communication device in accordance with the selection. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2022
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Ye Chen, Wen Yang, Hongyan Lei, Yupeng Jia
  • Publication number: 20230370391
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining data pertaining to a plurality of user equipment and a plurality of network resources, analyzing the data to identify that a first user equipment included in the plurality of user equipment is a reduced capability device, based on the analyzing, allocating first network resources included in the plurality of network resources to the first user equipment, resulting in a first allocation, and based on the analyzing, allocating second network resources included in the plurality of network resources to a second user equipment included in the plurality of user equipment, resulting in a second allocation. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2022
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Hongyan Lei, Yupeng Jia
  • Publication number: 20230368108
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving environmental data from a plurality of environmental data sources, identifying environmental risks based on the environmental data, obtaining profile information relating to a user or entity, based on the obtaining the profile information and the identifying the environmental risks, generating a recommendation for one or more locations of possible interest, and causing the recommendation to be presented to the user or entity, thereby providing location-based environmental risk information that is customized on a per user or per entity basis. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2022
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Shazim Chaudhary, Christopher Thomas, Roque Rios, III, Osama Syed, Denis Zou
  • Publication number: 20230370866
    Abstract: 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 of receiving network configuration data from a plurality of location-based services nodes in a network; transforming the network configuration data into reference audit values; comparing the reference audit values with the network configuration data received from each location-based services node in the plurality of location-based services nodes to generate corrections; and sending the corrections to each location-based services node in the plurality of location-based services nodes responsive to the network configuration data deviating from the reference audit values. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2022
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Abbas Fazal, Leimeng Shi, Syed Anwar Aftab
  • Publication number: 20230371097
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, determining, by a wireless router or a wireless access point (WAP) associated with a fixed network connection, that a network condition is satisfied, based on the determining that the network condition is satisfied, detecting for available networks operating in licensed spectrum and available networks operating in unlicensed spectrum, responsive to the detecting, identifying a first available network operating in licensed spectrum and a second available network operating in unlicensed spectrum, and aggregating, in one or more link aggregation groups, a first connection established with the first available network and a second connection established with the second available network, thereby augmenting a network capacity of the fixed network connection. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2022
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventor: Adrian Moore
  • Publication number: 20230370658
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, adjusting bandwidth allocated for first communication devices of a first communication network from a first bandwidth limit to no bandwidth limit, measuring first metrics of the first communication devices, computing second metrics of second communication devices of a second communication network, in which there is no bandwidth limit allocated to the second communication devices, determining a first allocation of first network resources for the second communication devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2022
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Emir Halepovic, Cheuk Yiu Ip
  • Publication number: 20230370956
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, adjusting bandwidth allocated for a first group of communication devices communicatively coupled to a first communication network from a bandwidth limited allocation to a no bandwidth limited allocation, and measuring a first group of metrics associated with the first group of communication devices associated with the first communication network. Further embodiments include computing a second group of metrics associated with a second group of communication devices communicatively coupled to a second communication network according to the first group of metrics, the second group of communication devices have the no bandwidth limited allocation, and allocating a first group of network resources for the second group of communication devices according to the second group of metrics. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2022
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Emir Halepovic, Cheuk Yiu Ip
  • Publication number: 20230370530
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a mechanism to switch mobile device management solutions used to manage device functions. A device may have multiple mobile device management solutions resident on the device, and in response to a received trigger, may activate one mobile device management solution and deactivate another mobile device management solution. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2022
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventor: Catherine Kalke
  • Publication number: 20230370363
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining node data identifying for a network a source node, a destination node and a plurality of other nodes; obtaining reference path data identifying a reference path from the source node to the destination node; obtaining alternate path data identifying a plurality of alternate paths from the source node to the destination node, setting for the reference path a possible split threshold identifying a traffic bandwidth which can trigger a re-direction of traffic from the reference path; determining whether a current traffic flow on the reference path meets the possible split threshold, resulting in a first determination; responsive to the first determination, obtaining, subsequent to the setting for the reference path of the possible split threshold, current alternate path data for each of the plurality of alternate paths, wherein the current alternate path data comprises for each of the alternate paths a respective current alternate path bandwidt
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2022
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Narayan Padi, Gagan Choudhury, Alvin C. Goddard, Harpreet Ahluwalia, Aswatnarayan Raghuram
  • Publication number: 20230362974
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, assessing a priority of a particular user at a service area in a mobile communications network for a strong radio signal from a cell site of the mobile communications network, and providing the strong radio signal to a mobile device of the particular user according to the priority of the particular user, wherein the providing the strong radio signal comprises focusing an antenna beam of a beamforming antenna at the service area and assigning the antenna beam to the particular user for downlink communication between the cell site of the mobile communications network and the particular user. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2022
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Howard Lang, Joseph Soryal
  • Publication number: 20230362208
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device in which a processing system defines service attributes for a function of an internet multimedia subsystem (IMS) core; the function is dedicated for providing a service to a user endpoint (UE) device. The processing system facilitates constructing a resource profile of the IMS core that includes the function; registering the function at a network repository function (NRF) associated with the IMS core; discovering the function from the NRF; obtaining a service requirement of the UE; and matching the service requirement with the service attributes in accordance with matching criteria. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2022
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Chaoxin Qiu, Eric Ashby, Min Lu
  • Publication number: 20230362650
    Abstract: The concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed detecting and mitigating drive-by home WI-FI hijack attacks. According to one aspect, a war driving activity correlation system can obtain a report from a home gateway system. The report can identify a suspicious device attempting to connect to a WI-FI network provided, at least in part, by the home gateway system. The war driving activity correlation system can determine, based upon the report, a route of an attacker who uses the suspicious device. The war driving activity correlation system can send instructions to the home gateway system. The instructions can include the route and can specify one or more mitigation actions to be performed by the home gateway system, such as blacklisting a media access control address associated with the suspicious device. The mitigation action(s) can be based upon one or more policies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2022
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Yaron Koral, Shraboni Jana, Kaustubh Joshi
  • Publication number: 20230362070
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining a list of a plurality of communication channels, each communication channel being associated with at least one respective feature of a plurality of features; correlating each communication channel in the list with at least one respective user response of a plurality of user responses; receiving an identification of a new communication channel that does not exist in the list, the new communication channel being associated with at least one feature of the plurality of features; determining, based upon the at least one feature that is associated with the new communication channel, with which one or more of the plurality of communication channels in the list the new communication channel is similar, resulting in a determination; and assigning, based upon the determination, at least one of the plurality of user responses to the new communication channel. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2022
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Wen-Ling Hsu, Jing Guo, Wen Wang, Zhengyi Zhou, Eric Zavesky
  • Publication number: 20230362420
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, identifying a threshold value of a streaming-media key performance indicator (KPI) based on a predetermined target portion of end-user devices that provide an acceptable performance. Performance records are obtained for a content delivery network (CDN) adapted to cache and serve media content requested by the end-user devices. Predicted values of the streaming-media KPI are generated according to the performance records of the CDN and compared to the threshold value of the streaming-media KPI to obtain a comparison. An anomaly is detected according to the comparison, to indicate that a predetermined number of the predicted values of the streaming-media KPI fail to satisfy the threshold value. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2022
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Xiaowen Mang, Carolyn Roche Johnson, Gregory J. Smith, Peni-Taito Payne
  • Publication number: 20230359781
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, dividing a feature range of a feature into a plurality of subsets that span the feature range, calculating an average target variable value for each subset of the plurality of subsets, resulting in a plurality of average target variable values, and estimating a measure of feature significance with respect to a target variable by determining a difference between a maximum average target variable value and a minimum average target variable value in the plurality of average target variable values. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2022
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Vladimir Sevastyanov, Abhay Dabholkar, Rakhi Gupta, James H. Pratt, Nikhlesh Agrawal
  • Publication number: 20230360057
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, analyzing, by a processing system, a customer message to determine a customer care issue and a customer sentiment, and generating a response to engage with the customer based on the customer sentiment; the response includes the information to address the customer care issue. The system also delivers the response to the equipment of the customer; monitors for a customer reaction to the delivered response to determine a change in the customer sentiment; and generates an additional response to further engage with the customer based on the change in the customer sentiment. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2022
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Applicants: AT&T Communications Services India Private Limited, AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Wen-Ling Hsu, Zhengyi Zhou, Eric Zavesky, Hasanathullah Inayathullah Mohammed, Jing Guo, Nishant Bhadauria, Amarendra Mahapatra, Nancy Herrero, Sarah Green
  • Publication number: 20230354213
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, determining a self-interference channel response of a transceiver of a mobile base station having a transmitter and a receiver. The self-interference channel response spans multiple sub-bands of a predetermined mobile cellular frequency channel. A first sub-band of the multiple sub-bands is identified according to the self-interference channel response and, an estimate is determined, at the receiver, of a first coupled transmit power level of the transmitter when operating within the first sub-band. A receiver sensitivity is adjusted according to the first coupled transmit power level to obtain an adjustment adapted to increase receiver sensitivity, while restricting operation of the receiver to a substantially linear region. The adjustment allows a transmission within the first sub-band and a reception within a second sub-band of the plurality of sub-bands to occur simultaneously at the mobile base station. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Aditya Chopra, Salam Akoum, Thomas Novlan