AT&T Patent Applications

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

  • Publication number: 20230354051
    Abstract: Improving configuration of routing areas within an area of interest can include obtaining input data including a list of common language location identifiers within a defined area of interest and identification of a number of routing areas to be created within the area of interest; creating a bounding rectangle around the area of interest represented by the list of common language location identifiers; generating, within the bounding rectangle, a uniformly distributed sequence point; determining, from within the list of common language location identifiers, if the uniformly distributed sequence point is located in a particular common language location identifier of the list of common language location identifiers; if so, adding, to a list of kernel common language location identifiers the uniformly distributed sequence point; and if not, discarding the uniformly distributed sequence point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Vladimir Sevastyanov, Abhay Dabholkar, James Pratt, Rakhi Gupta, Nikhlesh Agrawal
  • Publication number: 20230353982
    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 a smart contract for tracking a position of a mobile device from a quantum blockchain; issuing a token uniquely identifying location data for the position of the mobile device; receiving location data including the token from the mobile device, wherein the position of the mobile device is determined by displacement from an initial position using a quantum accelerometer; verifying the location data using the token; and storing the location data in the quantum blockchain. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2022
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicants: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Thomas J. Routt, Mark Stockert
  • Publication number: 20230353482
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving network performance metrics for a plurality of paths through a network, each path extending from a customer equipment to an application server for data communication by the customer equipment with an application running on the application server, selecting a selected path among the plurality of paths, wherein the selecting is based on the network performance metrics, and communicating between the customer equipment and the application server according to the selected path. Border gateway protocol (BGP) community values (BGP CV) add BGP performance metrics community values (BPM CV) to convey network performance metrics to provider edge routers and customer premises equipment for network selection. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Israel Means, Barry Elia, Mark Lyn
  • Publication number: 20230354050
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving network requirements for a new telecommunications network to be developed by a network operator, developing a workflow for design and development of the new telecommunications network based on stored knowledge base data about past telecommunications network projects of the network operator, the stored knowledge base data including information about prior milestone processes of the past telecommunications network projects of the network operator, modifying the information about prior milestone processes based on the network requirements for the new telecommunications network, forming a plurality of milestone processes for the new telecommunications network, and performing respective milestone processes of the plurality of milestone processes to design, develop and test the new telecommunications network, including performing a network ready milestone process of final testing of network functions and a certification that the new telecommunica
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Christopher T. Anderson, Christopher Gregston, Shaunna Levell, Julie McNew, Barbara Adcock, Brandon Roche, Rick Williams, Judy Banker, Stacy Jackiewicz, Irma Mix, Kristen Hyslope, Yongmei Chen, Saurav Vasishat
  • Publication number: 20230353715
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining sensor data that includes an image of a projection environment, determining physical objects portrayed within the image, and characterizing physical properties of the physical objects according to the sensor data to obtain a characterization. A first target object of the physical objects having a first projection surface is identified according to the characterization, and a source image is modified according to the first projection surface. The modified image is provided to a projector adapted to project the modified image onto the first projection surface. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Eric Zavesky, Brian Novack, Rashmi Palamadai, Tan Xu
  • Publication number: 20230344862
    Abstract: Aspects of detecting and mitigating denial of service (“DoS”) attacks over home gateway network address translation (“NAT”) are disclosed herein. According to one aspect disclosed herein, a home gateway system can detect that a NAT table is overpopulated. In response to detecting that the NAT table is overpopulated, the home gateway system can determine a mitigation action to be performed. The home gateway system can then perform the mitigation action in an attempt to mitigate an effect of the NAT table overpopulation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Yaron Koral, Shraboni Jana, Kaustubh Joshi
  • Publication number: 20230344767
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, detecting a scenario that warrants a pooling of first resources associated with a first network operator with second resources associated with at least a second network operator that is different from the first network operator, based on the detecting, obtaining first data indicating an availability of a first portion of the first resources and second data indicating an availability of a first portion of the second resources, processing at least the first data and the second data to generate a plan for facilitating a communication service involving the first portion of the first resources and the first portion of the second resources, and facilitating the communication service based on the plan. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Applicants: AT&T Global Network Services Belgium Luxembourg SPRL, AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Tracy Van Brakle, Giovanni Vannucci, Cagatay Buyukkoc, Christophe Closset, Mukundan Sarukkai
  • Publication number: 20230344474
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining compressed sounding reference signal (SRS) information associated with a user end device from a distributed unit device. The distributed unit device compresses SRS information utilizing a first compression algorithm resulting in the compressed SRS information. Further embodiments include decompressing the compressed SRS information utilizing a first decompression algorithm resulting in the SRS information and determining SRS channel estimation based on the SRS information. Additional embodiments include determining a group of beamforming weights based on the SRS channel estimation, and adjusting an antenna array according to the group of beamforming weights. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2022
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Salam Akoum, Aditya Chopra, Milap Majmundar
  • Publication number: 20230342131
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a non-transitory machine-readable medium comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processing system including a processor, facilitate performance of operations, the operations comprising: receiving by a selected one of a plurality of containers incoming traffic from a legacy application, the legacy application having been associated with a migrated application prior to the migrated application having been installed on a Software as a Service (SaaS) cloud infrastructure, the incoming traffic comprising a first instruction to perform a first legacy operation; mapping the first legacy operation of the legacy application to a replacement instruction for the migrated application by receiving data from the selected container and assigning the replacement instruction to replace the first instruction; and communicating with the migrated application on the SaaS cloud infrastructure, the communicating comprising sending to the migrated appli
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Muneer Keezhana, Sridar Seetharaman, Venkata Goutham Reddy Kuncham, Mundakkapatta Dileep Kainary
  • Publication number: 20230344483
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a system comprising a distributed unit (DU) configured to generate sounding reference signal (SRS)-based beams, and a remote unit (RU) communicatively coupled with the DU over a fronthaul, wherein the RU is configured to generate demodulation reference signal (DMRS)-based beams and perform digital beamforming for an uplink using the DMRS-based beams in combination with the SRS-based beams. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2022
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Salam Akoum, Aditya Chopra, Milap Majmundar
  • Publication number: 20230344622
    Abstract: The concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to quantum key distribution (“QKD”) networking as a service. According to one aspect disclosed herein, a microservices controller can establish a plurality of quantum connections with a plurality of virtual quantum connection managers (“vQCMs”) deployed in association with a set of quantum user nodes (“QUNs”) in a QKD network. The microservices controller can receive a request to initialize the QKD network. The microservices controller can coordinate with the plurality of vQCMs to handle initialization of the QKD network. The microservices controller can receive a QKD service request from a QKD network operator. The microservices controller can invoke a plurality of microservices to handle the QKD service request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2023
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Moshiur Rahman, William Trost, Daniel Solero, Daniel Sheleheda
  • Publication number: 20230344680
    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: receiving sounding reference signal (SRS) data for an uplink transmission of a user equipment (UE) from a remote unit (RU); generating SRS-based beam weights; transmitting the SRS-based beam weights to the RU; instructing the RU to generate DMRS-based beam weights and send demodulation reference signal (DMRS) channel estimates from subsequent uplink transmissions of the UE; and receiving the DMRS channel estimates from the RU. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2022
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Salam Akoum, Aditya Chopra, Milap Majmundar
  • Publication number: 20230344765
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, network device(s) capable of on-demand virtual routing and forwarding (VRF) table creation. A network device may receive a request from a customer device requesting on-demand VRF creation, and may instantiate and provision a VRF in response. The request made by the customer device may be made by announcing an attribute in a border gateway protocol (BGP) message. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Israel Means, Praveen Ramadenu
  • Publication number: 20230336455
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, identifying a flow of data packets between first and second network addresses of a network, with each packet including respective header and payload portions. The identified flow of data packets is monitored over a number of sample periods to obtain a number of monitored results. A data-flow activity record is generated, having a number of symbols corresponding to the number of monitored results, the symbols including an active symbol value indicative of a presence of an exchange of data and an idle symbol value indicative of an absence of an exchange of data. A suitability of the identified data flow is inferred for estimating a throughput of the network according to the data-flow activity record without interpreting contents of each respective packet payload portion. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2022
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Applicants: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Emir Halepovic, Mats Elf, Chan-Ching Hsu, Cheuk Yiu Ip
  • Publication number: 20230336585
    Abstract: A distributed denial of service (“DDoS”) attack profiler can determine a plurality of DDoS attack properties associated with a DDoS attack that utilizes an Internet of Things (“IoT”) device operating in communication with a home gateway. The DDoS attack profiler can create a DDoS attack profile and can provide a DDoS attack report based upon the DDoS attack profile to a correlator. An IoT device profiler can determine a plurality of IoT device properties and can create, based upon the plurality of IoT device properties, an IoT device profile. The IoT device profiler can create an anomaly report that identifies an anomaly associated with the IoT device. The correlator can correlate the DDoS attack report with the anomaly report to determine if a match exists. In response to determining that the match exists, the home gateway system can store the bot match record in a bot match repository.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2022
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Yaron Koral, Shraboni Jana, Kaustubh Joshi
  • Publication number: 20230337040
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, detecting a loss of at least a part of a packet conveyed via a wireless link coupling a processing system and a user equipment, based on the detecting, identifying a cause of the loss as being due to one of a signal strength of a signal being less than a first threshold or an amount of data in a buffer exceeding a second threshold, resulting in an identification, and based on the identification, invoking an action. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2022
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Zhengye Liu, Yali Liu, Jin Wang, Raghvendra Savoor
  • Publication number: 20230337058
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining data pertaining to a communication service facilitated at least in part by a first gateway located in a building, the communication service involving at least a first user equipment, analyzing the data to determine that a processing load supported by the first gateway exceeds a first threshold, wherein the first threshold is expressed as a function of a capacity of the first gateway, resulting in a determination, and based on the determination, performing an action that causes the processing load supported by the first gateway to be reduced to a level that is less than the first threshold. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2022
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Zhengye Liu, Yali Liu, Jin Wang, Raghvendra Savoor
  • Publication number: 20230330521
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a user input module to receive collected user inputs during game play by a user at user equipment, in an interactive game with a remote user provided by a gaming application, the user equipment in data communication over a network with remote user equipment of the remote user. Aspects of the subject disclosure may further include a network monitor module to monitor a network connection over the network with the remote user equipment and to identify a network game play interruption during the game play, and a game application programming interface (API) to automatically control game play during the network game play interruption to simulate game inputs of the user based on the collected user inputs so the remote user is unaware of the network game play interruption, wherein the game API is responsive to identification of the network game play interruption for automatically controlling the game play. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2022
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Joseph Soryal, Nishit J. Sanghavi
  • Publication number: 20230336468
    Abstract: Packet-based network delivery control can include receiving, at a router of a network route, data packets associated with traffic generated by an application server, the traffic being sent by an application server to a destination device via the network route, determining, at the router, if executable code is to be generated for the data packets, in response to a determination that the executable code is to be generated for the data packets, determining handling instructions for the data packets, generating the executable code, the executable code, when executed by the router, causing the router to transmit the data packets across the network route in accordance with the handling instructions, and implementing the handling instructions at the router to transmit the data packets across the network route in accordance with the handling instructions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2022
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Adam Christa, Ayman Braik, Chelby Rhoades, Morgan Muir, Sarah Witt, Eric Zavesky, Gargi Kand
  • Publication number: 20230334287
    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 a plurality of data packets captured from a network, wherein the data packets are associated with streaming video content across the network, and wherein the video content is encrypted; processing the plurality of data packets to extract features from each of the data packets in the plurality of data packets; providing the features to a trained machine learning (ML) model comprising a plurality of layers; and outputting an identification of the video content determined by the ML model. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2022
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Yuan Ding, Natalia Schenck, Vinay Sharma, Ankita Prashant Joshi
  • Publication number: 20230336443
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining, over a communication network, flow records from each of a group of smart residential gateways (SRGs) resulting in a group of flow records. Each of the group of SRGs is associated with one or more communication devices resulting in a group of communication devices. Further embodiments include determining a first Quality of Experience (QoE) metric for a first portion of the group of communication devices based on the group of flow records, and determining that the first QoE metric is below a first QoE metric threshold. Additional embodiments include identifying a first portion of the group of SRGs associated with the portion of the group of communication devices, and allocating a first group of network resources to a first portion of the communication network associated with the first portion of the group of SRGs. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2022
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Zhengye Liu, Yali Liu, Jin Wang, Raghvendra Savoor
  • Publication number: 20230336794
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method including facilitating communications between a wide area network (WAN) and a local area network (LAN), executing an application mirror, associated with a media server coupled to the WAN, via an operating system at the residential gateway device, prefetching, via the application mirror, a plurality of prefetched media content from the media server according to a client application associated with the media server and operating at user device coupled to the LAN, storing, via the application mirror, the plurality of prefetched media content, determining, via the application mirror, that the plurality of prefetched media content includes a first media content, and responsive to the determining the plurality of prefetched media content includes the first media content, transmitting, via the application mirror, the first media content to the client application at the user device. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2022
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Zhengye Liu, Yali Liu, Jin Wang, Raghvendra Savoor
  • Publication number: 20230337118
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method that includes receiving, by a processing system, a query from a server regarding a frequency range for use in a communication by user equipment (UE); responding to the query by providing information to the server regarding whether use of the frequency range is authorized; receiving an updated report from the UE, based on the information, regarding capability of the UE to communicate using the frequency range; directing the UE to initiate the communication using a selected frequency range; and dynamically adjusting the selected frequency range. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2022
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventor: Yupeng Jia
  • Publication number: 20230326338
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method that includes downloading, to each of a plurality of vehicles each including a sensor, a sharing microservice (SM) to collect sensor data comprising information regarding operation of the vehicle and an environment of the vehicle; receiving from each SM a sensor data feed comprising the collected sensor data, where each of the data feeds is accessible to each of the plurality of vehicles; generating for each of the plurality of vehicles an image of a local environment of that vehicle based on the sensor data feed; and communicating with a target vehicle to recommend a sensor data feed from another vehicle. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2022
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Nishit J. Sanghavi, Joseph Soryal
  • Publication number: 20230325845
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method in which a processing system analyzes data including a user profile and historical data relating to previous interactions between an automated agent and equipment of the user. The method also includes determining a desirable outcome of an interaction between the automated agent and the user equipment; constructing a model for generating an expected outcome of a step of the interaction; using the model to perform a simulation of a next step of the interaction by generating an expected outcome for each of a plurality of possible actions, resulting in a plurality of expected outcomes; and selecting a next action for the next step of the interaction. If the desirable outcome is not obtained, the system can refine the plurality of possible actions to perform a simulation of a subsequent step of the interaction. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Zhengyi Zhou, Jing Guo, Wen-Ling Hsu, Eric Zavesky
  • Publication number: 20230325226
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, detecting data streams by a processing system including a processor, wherein the processing system is associated with an anomaly detection and alerting system in which stream processing and model maintenance is decoupled from one another, and wherein one or more dedicated virtual machines (VMs) store and maintain anomaly detection and alerting models, based on the detecting, causing, by the processing system, a plurality of stream-processing VMs to be instantiated for processing the data streams, and managing, by the processing system, data stream assignments for the plurality of stream-processing VMs based on monitoring of one or more conditions, wherein the plurality of stream-processing VMs process assigned data streams by executing instances of the anomaly detection and alerting models, and provide model outputs to the one or more dedicated VMs for updating of the anomaly detection and alerting models. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Rajat Malik, Tamraparni Dasu, Yaron Kanza, Divesh Srivastava, Eleftherios Koutsofios, Gordon Woodhull
  • Publication number: 20230325865
    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: detecting a target behavior of a person and a first location of the person using a computer vision system in a monitored location; confirming the first location detected by the computer vision system matches a mobile location of a mobile device possessed by the person, wherein the mobile device is connected to a network providing communication services at the monitored location, and wherein the mobile location is determined by the network; and providing a reward to the mobile device responsive to the target behavior detected and the first location matching the mobile location. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2022
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: John Francis, Eli Schultz, Andrew Durden, Jianxiong Dong, Eric Zavesky
  • Publication number: 20230325064
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving, via an interactive user interface, user selections of a dataset and a first dimension of a plurality of dimensions in a hierarchical structure, wherein the dataset corresponds to a specific domain and comprises anomalies or alerts that are aggregated in certain dimensions, and wherein a lattice of aggregations of the anomalies or alerts is defined for the specific domain, causing the interactive user interface to present a time series chart and a heatmap, wherein the time series chart portrays alert density across dimensions below the first dimension, wherein the heatmap displays, according to a visual scheme, concentrations of the anomalies or alerts across at least a portion of the dimensions below the first dimension, and wherein user interaction with the time series chart and/or the heatmap facilitates navigation of subspaces of the lattice and exploration of the concentrations of the anomalies or alerts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Gordon Woodhull, Yaron Kanza, Eleftherios Koutsofios, Rajat Malik, Divesh Srivastava, Tamraparni Dasu
  • Publication number: 20230327952
    Abstract: Restoring network configurations using network topology snapshots can include obtaining a first network topology snapshot that describes a first configuration of a network environment at a first point in time, obtaining a second network topology snapshot that describes a second configuration of the network environment at a second point in time, calculating a difference between the first network topology snapshot and the second network topology snapshot, presenting the difference for display, in response to determining that a request to restore a previous configuration has been received, identifying a configuration change that is to be reverted and a restore point associated with the configuration change to be reverted, and outputting a command that, when executed by an orchestration service, causes the orchestration service to revert the configuration change.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2022
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: William E. Reehil, III, Robby Maharajh, Harish Venkata Kajur
  • Publication number: 20230315267
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method including generating a plurality of discrete polygons from a digital image of a location, modifying a boundary of a first discrete polygon of the plurality of discrete polygons based on a user input at a venue map graphical user interface, assigning, at the venue map graphical user interface, a first zone of a plurality of zones associated with a first venue of a plurality of venues to a second discrete polygon of the plurality of discrete polygons, and presenting a performance map graphical user interface for the first venue of the plurality of venues including the second discrete polygon of the plurality of discrete polygons overlaid onto the digital image of the location. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Jason Young, Muhammed Abughrara
  • Publication number: 20230319665
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, determining a Reference Signal Received Power (RSRP) and a Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR) for a plurality of carriers at a user equipment (UE) device, the plurality of carriers transmitted by a source group of cells including a source primary cell (PCell) and one or more source secondary cells (SCells) associated with the source PCell, and initiating a handover of communication with the UE device from the source group of cells to a target group of cells, wherein the target group of cells includes a target PCell and one or more target SCells, wherein the initiating the handover is responsive to the RSRP exceeding a predetermined RSRP threshold and the SNR exceeding a predetermined SNR threshold. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2022
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Jianchun Zhou, Yakun Gao
  • Publication number: 20230319513
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, an end-user 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: storing for each other end-user device of a plurality of other end-user devices a respective identification, the end-user device and the plurality of other end-user devices forming a group; receiving a first indication of a first subset of the group with which to carry out first communications, the first subset comprising one or more first target end-user devices selected from the group; responsive to receipt of the first indication, sending to each of the one or more first target end-user devices a first instruction to communicate with the end-user device via a first dynamically determined channel; and engaging in the first communications with each of the one or more first target end-user devices after each of the one o
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2022
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicants: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Sheldon Kent Meredith, Zachary Meredith, Roger Kirk Reese, JR.
  • Publication number: 20230319517
    Abstract: A method, where the method includes discovering an event where at least one device is offline and instantiating an emergency mode causing the at least one device to permit data or message aggregation. The method further includes defining a community of devices including an identity of the at least one device and establishing communication between the at least one device and a mobile aggregation device. The method further includes when the mobile aggregation device is in communication with the at least one device, aggregating a payload of a message or data from the at least one device and the community having an artificial intelligence instantiated as a virtual network function or network device, the community communicating with the mobile aggregation device to receive data from the at least one device, and the artificial intelligence being configured to assess the event based on the data obtained by the mobile aggregation device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Jason DeCuir, Robert Gratz, Eric Zavesky, James Pratt
  • Publication number: 20230309071
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, transmitting a first value for a first parameter to a first user equipment, wherein the first parameter pertains to a first number of scans to be performed by the first user equipment to detect a first signal having a first frequency within a first frequency band as part of a first scanning procedure, and transmitting a second value for a second parameter to the first user equipment, wherein the second parameter pertains to a first amount of time that the first user equipment is to wait between the first scanning procedure and a second scanning procedure, the second scanning procedure pertaining to detection of the first signal having the first frequency within the first frequency band. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Yupeng Jia, Hongyan Lei
  • Publication number: 20230308467
    Abstract: The concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to home gateway monitoring for vulnerable home Internet of Things (“IoT”) devices. According to one aspect disclosed herein, a home gateway can scan a home network address space of a home network for an IoT device. The home gateway can perform a vulnerability test on the IoT device to determine whether the IoT device is vulnerable to a known vulnerability. In response to determining that the IoT device is vulnerable to the known vulnerability, the home gateway can change a device status of the IoT device to a vulnerable status and can change a permissions level of the IoT device to a quarantine permissions level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Yaron Koral, Shraboni Jana, Kaustubh Joshi
  • Publication number: 20230308878
    Abstract: An access point impersonation protection system (“the system”) can scan for wireless network signals to detect a wireless network provided by a malicious access point. The system can collect a network feature associated with the wireless network. The system can analyze the network feature and can provide analysis results to a machine learning classifier. The machine learning classifier can assign a classification to the access point. The classification can be a benign classification indicative of the access point being benign. The classification can be a malicious classification indicative of the access point being malicious. The network feature can be an active time, an SSID name, a vendor, a model, a signal strength, an authentication requirement, or a combination thereof. The system can alert upon identifying a malicious access point and apply counter measures to prevent the malicious access point from causing harm to nearby devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Yaron Koral, Shraboni Jana, Kaustubh Joshi
  • Publication number: 20230309072
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a drone service retrieving network state information describing a network state of at least a portion of a communication network, determining an impact of the network state on operation of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), selecting a carrier frequency to be used for communication by the UAV, and providing the data describing the carrier frequency to the UAV and/or to communication network nodes. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Xuan Tuyen Tran, Kaustubh Joshi
  • Publication number: 20230308946
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving a data packet for transmission over a wireless network to a user equipment (UE) device in data communication with one or more network elements over one or more carrier legs of the wireless network, receiving information about current network conditions, retrieving a set of packet splitting rules which define initial boundary conditions for a process of splitting packets into smaller data packets for transmission to the UE device, applying, in a machine learning model, one or more packet splitting rules of the set of packet splitting rules to split the data packet into a set of smaller data packets, based on the information about current network conditions in the wireless network, selecting, in the machine learning model, a flow control arrangement for the data packet, including determining a number of smaller packets to split the data packet, and selecting respective carrier legs of the one or more carrier legs of the wireless network for c
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Jianchun Zhou, Yakun Gao
  • Publication number: 20230301598
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device, including: a sensor affixed to an article of clothing; a transducer affixed to the article of clothing; 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 sensor data from the sensor; processing the sensor data; sending the sensor data to a trained machine learning (ML) model having as inputs the sensor data, and providing as output, control data to control the transducer; receiving the control data from the trained ML model; and sending the control data to the transducer to provide therapy to a patient. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventor: Vazrik Hovsepian
  • Publication number: 20230308453
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, detecting communications between a source device and a destination device, wherein the communications relate to a particular context and are facilitated over a first network associated with the destination device, determining a state or trust level for the particular context based on reference data, detecting a change in behavior of the source device, updating the state or trust level based on the detecting the change in behavior of the source device, resulting in an updated state or trust level, identifying a loss of trust condition based on the updated state or trust level, restricting communications between the source device and the destination device, and performing a trust rebuild process in an attempt to address the loss of trust condition and to enable the source device to resume communications with the destination device. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicants: AT&T Global Network Services Belgium Luxembourg SPRL, AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Catherine Lefèvre, James H. Pratt, Eric Zavesky, Christophe Closset, Gervais-Martial Ngueko
  • Publication number: 20230308993
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining a first portion of a communication service via a first signal having a first frequency within a first band of frequencies, subsequent to the obtaining of the first portion of the communication service, obtaining data associated with a plurality of parameters, analyzing at least the data to identify when a scan for a second signal having a second frequency within a second band of frequencies should be performed, wherein the second band of frequencies is different from the first band of frequencies, and scanning for the second signal based on the analyzing. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Yupeng Jia, Hongyan Lei
  • Publication number: 20230308830
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining an image of a code from a first mobile device associated with a first user. The code is associated with a community social media platform. Further embodiments can include allowing the first mobile device access to the community social media platform in response to validating that the first user is associated with a community associated with the community social media platform, and obtaining a request from the first mobile device for a service. Additional embodiments can include identifying a second mobile device associated with a second user based on the second user providing the service, and providing a message to the second mobile device indicating the second user perform the service for the first user. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Wei Wang, Lars Benjamin Johnson
  • Publication number: 20230306067
    Abstract: Aspects include receiving a search request, comparing at least one term of the search request to a plurality of metadata items, wherein each metadata item of the plurality of metadata items is associated with a respective asset of a plurality of assets, generating a plurality of scores, wherein each score of the plurality of scores is associated with a respective asset included in the plurality of assets, and wherein a value of each score of the plurality of scores is based on an identification of a user, selecting at least one asset of the plurality of assets in accordance with the plurality of scores and in accordance with at least one threshold, providing the at least one asset to a communications device that is associated with the user, and providing at least a portion of a metadata item included in the plurality of metadata items to the communications device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Curtis Stephenson, James Pratt, Parimal Pandya
  • Publication number: 20230300785
    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, define operations of modules that monitor a computational hierarchy, the modules include a first module for generating base alerts with a hierarchical key associated with an operation of the computational hierarchy and for rolling up the base alerts based on the computational hierarchy, resulting in rolled-up base alerts; a second module for generating super alerts from a concentration of the rolled up base alerts; and a third module comprising a first plurality of models that selects the super alerts based on priority, persistence of anomalies, pervasiveness of the super alerts generated, recency, or a combination thereof, generates a smart alert based on voting on the super alerts selected by the first plurality of models, and presents the smart alert on a user interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Eleftherios Koutsofios, Tamraparni Dasu, Yaron Kanza, Divesh Srivastava, Rajat Malik, Gordon Woodhull
  • Publication number: 20230297645
    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, the operations including monitoring, by a plurality of models implemented by the executable instructions, a plurality of data streams comprising super alerts; and generating a smart alert based on voting on the super alerts by the plurality of models. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Tamraparni Dasu, Yaron Kanza, Eleftherios Koutsofios, Divesh Srivastava, Rajat Malik, Gordon Woodhull
  • Publication number: 20230299531
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device comprising: a female port configured to receive a data connector, the data connector comprising a surface with a first opening; a first movable member disposed within the female port, the first movable member being configured such that as the data connector is moved into the female port a first portion of the first movable member enters into the first opening; and a first blocking member disposed within the female port, the first blocking member being configured to move to a first blocking position to block the first portion of the first movable member from exiting the first opening after the first portion of the first movable member has entered the first opening. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Ryan Schaub, Barrett M. Kreiner, Michael Spurlock
  • Publication number: 20230299945
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a non-transitory, machine-readable medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processing system including a processor, facilitate performance of operations including receiving a call; selecting a next carrier to handoff the call; generating a call data record (CDR) for the handoff to the next carrier; encrypting the CDR using a call encryption key, thereby creating an encrypted CDR; encrypting the encrypted CDR using a committee encryption key, thereby creating a double encrypted CDR; recording the double encrypted CDR to a blockchain; and sending the call encryption key to the next carrier. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicants: Emory University, AT&T Intellectual property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Divesh Srivastava, Yaron Kanza, Tamraparni Dasu, Teddy Chu, Shuaicheng Ma, Li Xiong
  • Publication number: 20230300169
    Abstract: A method includes determining, by a vehicle, a failure with a computer or telecommunications system operating in the vehicle and when a failure is detected, activating an acoustic system on the vehicle, detecting a vibration by the vehicle; and transmitting an audible signal responsive to the detecting step. The audible signal may include words in a human vocabulary.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventor: Joseph Soryal
  • Publication number: 20230300741
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, an AT command that allows an application service provider to modify suspend/resume (S/R) and/or deactivate/activate (D/A) functionality specified in one or more elementary files of a UICC. The S/R and/or D/A functionality can be influenced by the application service provider without relying on SIM-OTA messages being forwarded by a mobile operator. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicants: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Carl Martin, II, Robert Holden
  • Publication number: 20230291662
    Abstract: A method for bundling network functions as a single microservice in a cloud environment. A service deployment manager may acquire subscriber location information associated with a subscriber or a subscriber profile associated with the subscriber. Moreover, the service deployment manager may utilize the subscriber location information or the subscriber profile to select a cloud location. For example, the cloud location may be based on load, geographical proximity, service profile, etc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2023
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Chaoxin Qiu, Mark A. Ratcliffe, Min Lu, Eric Ashby, Arshad Khan