AT&T Patents Granted

Patents granted to AT&T by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 12089181
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining media content from a media content server over a mobile network, and providing the media content to a communication device over a first direct communication link. Embodiments include detecting a mobility event associated with the mobile network, and providing a notification message to a first network device associated with the mobile network. Further embodiments can include obtaining instructions from the first network device, wherein the instructions indicate to provide a mobility event notification. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventor: Thomas Novlan
  • Patent number: 12086755
    Abstract: Wireless presence is used as a theft prevention mechanism for packages. When a package is shipped, the package includes a wireless security device. Before the package is delivered to its final destination shipping address, the wireless security device is activated and programmed with a security credential. The security credential, though, is based on information obtained during an initial purchase. The wireless security device may thus only be deactivated by a recipient participating in the initial purchase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Mario Kosseifi, Joseph Thomas
  • Patent number: 12088662
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device including a processing system that evaluates a need for additional data streaming resources at the device, and determines that a set of cooperating devices, located within a predetermined distance, is configured for sharing data streaming resources. The device receives the requested data from the cooperating devices in simultaneous streams, each stream including a segment of the requested data. The data source sends the requested data in parallel streams to the set of cooperating devices respectively, in accordance with addresses provided to the data source for each of the cooperating devices. The processing system assembles the requested data from the simultaneous streams. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Joseph Soryal, Howard Lang
  • Patent number: 12089085
    Abstract: A system can facilitate assigning guaranteed bitrate (GBR) admission control thresholds in a network with multiple network slices serving multiple GBR services. Thus, each network slice can optionally have its own dedicated GBR admission. For example, based on a requested service, the system can compare a received quality indicator to a threshold value to determine if a bearer shall be admitted in accordance with dedicated GBR admission control region within its slice. If the slice does not have its own GBR admission control region or if its threshold is reached, the system can compare the received quality indicator to another threshold value to determine if the bearer shall be admitted in accordance with a common GBR admission control region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Milap Majmundar, Feza Buyukdura
  • Patent number: 12088631
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes event detection and management for quantum communications in a communication network. The event detection and management for quantum communications in a communication network may be provided based on event-based interaction between quantum nodes of the communication network and a network controller of the communication network, such as where the quantum nodes detect events associated with quantum communications and report the events associated with quantum communications to the network controller and where the network controller receives the events associated with quantum communications from the quantum nodes and initiates event management operations based on the events associated with quantum communications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Moshiur Rahman, William R. Trost
  • Patent number: 12088510
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving workload requests for tenant devices providing services to user devices; partitioning node resources to facilitate network slicing in a software defined network to provide the services; determining that the workload requests exceed available resources of the node; and outsourcing a portion of a load to one or more neighboring nodes, where the outsourcing is performed in coordination with a regional orchestrator and a SDN intelligence module. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Eshrat Huda, Moshiur Rahman, David H. Lu, Russell Fischer, Prafulla Verma
  • Patent number: 12087441
    Abstract: This disclosure describes a solution to enable more useful and responsive methods for a person's wishes for resuscitation actions to be canceled or discontinued in the event of a medical event. In this solution, a person can record their do not resuscitate (DNR) wishes with more specificity. For instance, they can specify conditions for treatment or non-treatment in the event of a medical emergency that would otherwise call for live-saving procedures or the use of an automated external defibrillator (AED) device. Conditional DNR data can be recorded in an electronic device (e.g., emergency pendant or smart watch, or in an electronic device) implanted within or on the person's body. This data can also be stored in a database accessible via a network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Brittaney Zellner, Sameena Khan, Ryan Schaub, Barrett Kreiner, Ari Craine, Robert Koch
  • Patent number: 12081809
    Abstract: Concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to increasing misspelling, typographical, and partial search tolerance for search terms. A system can obtain media content metadata associated with media content. The system can identify a plurality of names within the media content metadata and remove a plurality of stop words from the media content metadata. The system can determine a plurality of unigrams and a plurality of bigrams from the media content metadata. The system can determine a plurality of misspellings of the media content metadata. The system can compile the plurality of names, the plurality of stop words, the plurality of unigrams, the plurality of bigrams, and the plurality of misspellings as results. The system can determine a plurality of incorrect search strings based upon the results and can create a dictionary including the plurality of incorrect search strings mapped to a plurality of correct search strings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Sanjeev Misra, Ann Eileen Skudlark, Appavu Siva Prakasam
  • Patent number: 12082088
    Abstract: A mobile edge computing (MEC) service area can comprise radio cells/antennas connected to baseband units that are connected to service gateway (SGW) and/or packet data network gateway (PGW) user planes at a customer premises. The radio cells can be tagged with evolved universal mobile telecommunications system terrestrial radio access (E-UTRAN) cell global identifiers (EGCIs) offering traceability to user equipment (UE) that camp on them. The radio cells for MEC can be assigned tracking area codes (TACs) such that when a UE is registered and provisioned for a MEC service area based on an international mobile subscriber identity (IMSI) assigned to a subscriber identity module (SIM) of the UE, the UE can be determined to be at a geofenced area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Emmanuel Etuke, Jitendra Patel, Nicholas Arconati, Ramesh Garapaty
  • Patent number: 12082047
    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: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Zhengye Liu, Yali Liu, Jin Wang, Raghvendra Savoor
  • Patent number: 12079373
    Abstract: A method includes receiving a request from an internet content provider to provide data about a subscriber associated with an IP address, where the data allows the internet content provider to maintain stateful and persistent information about an HTTP session with a user endpoint device associated with the IP address determining whether the Internet content provider is a trusted Internet content provider pre-authorized to receive at least some of the data about the subscriber, determining a subset of the data about the subscriber that is allowed to be shared with the Internet content provider, when the Internet content provider is determined to be a trusted Internet content provider, providing the subset of the data to the Internet content provider, when the subset of the data is determined, and denying the request to provide the data, when the Internet content provider is determined not to be a trusted Internet content provider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Douglas M. Nortz, Robert Sayko
  • Patent number: 12081992
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, initializing a secure timer in a wireless device, determining whether a subscriber identification module (SIM) card installed in the wireless device comprises a carrier identity that matches a carrier identity stored in the machine-readable medium, establishing a network connection with a trusted server, starting the secure timer if the SIM card and network connection are satisfactory, periodically checking the network connection and SIM card until expiry of the secure timer, penalizing the secure timer responsive to a failure of the network connection or SIM card check, and responsive to expiry of the secure timer, unlocking a SIM lock. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Ginger Chien, Richard Zaffino
  • Patent number: 12082280
    Abstract: In one example, a method includes instructing a mobile device of a user to establish a connection with an application server via a first network slice, where the first network slice is configured based on an initial resource need of a network connected application executing on the mobile device and an initial set of network conditions, sending, to the mobile device, a prediction of at least one network condition for the first network slice at a time in the future, receiving, from the mobile device, an indication of an updated resource need of the network connected application, and providing, to the mobile device, instructions for establishing a connection to the application server over a second network slice, where the second network slice is configured based on the updated resource need and a current set of network conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Tan Xu, Rashmi Palamadai, Brian Novack, Eric Zavesky
  • Patent number: 12081998
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a process for selecting equipment locations such as of cellular antennas, based on a combination of a geospatial grid representation of a planning area and optimization algorithms (which can be combined with propagation models and a 3D model of the world) where the optimization algorithm can select a deployment from a large space of options and would make RAN planning much more efficient. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Yaron Kanza, Arun Jotshi, Velin Kounev
  • Patent number: 12082311
    Abstract: Integrated management of connected assets that utilize different technologies and that are located across disparate wireless communications networks is facilitated herein. A method can comprise evaluating, by a system comprising a processor, first data associated with a first device operable with a first computing platform and second data associated with a second device operable with a second computing platform different from the first computing platform. The method can also comprise transforming, by the system, at least a first portion of the first data and at least a second portion of the second data into third data. The third data can be compatible with the first data and the second data. Further, the method can comprise rendering, by the system, the third data as an integrated view of at least the first portion of the first data and at least the second portion of the second data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Damir Mustafic, Leonard Burnett, Pingying Xia, Steven Manenti
  • Patent number: 12082106
    Abstract: Described is allocating and deallocating baseband unit resources of a distributed unit based on anticipated and/or actual demand for the resources. For example, when user equipment transitions to a connected state, a corresponding message can be detected and used to determine whether sufficient baseband unit resources are needed to handle the traffic of the newly connecting user equipment. If not, additional baseband unit resources are allocated. When user equipment transitions to an inactive state, the corresponding command can be detected and used to determine whether the baseband unit resources are still needed for other traffic. If not, baseband unit resources are deallocated; that is, if a distributed unit's resources are no longer needed, the distributed unit's resources are deactivated to reduce resource consumption. Deallocation can be performed by changing the resources to a power conservation (e.g., sleep) state, with allocation performed by changing such resources back to an active state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Aleksandr Zelezniak, Kaustubh Joshi, Shankaranarayanan Puzhavakath Narayanan, Gueyoung Jung
  • Patent number: 12079192
    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 domain name system (DNS) record changes; identifying errors from the DNS record changes; discarding the DNS record changes responsive to the errors identified; scheduling the DNS record changes responsive to a lack of errors identified; translating the DNS record changes into protocol specific formats; and provisioning the protocol specific formats of the translated DNS record changes. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Lakshminarashimhan Naidu, Eric Ashby, Stephen Chou
  • Patent number: 12081496
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject matter described herein are directed towards indicating to a wireless network device which time-division duplex slot patterns (slot formats) are supported by a user equipment device, e.g., which slot patterns have gone through interoperability and deployment testing (IODT) successfully with respect to the type of user equipment device. With the supported slot pattern information, the network can make an intelligent decision on scheduling downlink/uplink ratios, while selecting a slot pattern that the user equipment device is known to support. In one aspect, the technology adds a “Slot format IODTed” information element in the user equipment device capability information, which the network obtains when the user equipment device reports its capabilities to the network. In another aspect, the network can query the user equipment device for the supported slot format information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Yupeng Jia, Hongyan Lei
  • Patent number: 12082044
    Abstract: An architecture for facilitating smart physical cell identity (PCI) configuration for aerial network equipment that can used in terrestrial 4G and/or 5G LTE wireless networking paradigms. A method can comprise: receiving, from core network equipment, an instruction to travel from a first geographic location to a second geographic location, wherein the second geographic location has been determined, by the core network equipment, as representing a hotspot location; traveling from the first geographic location to the hotspot location; based on crossing a boundary associated with the hotspot location, initiating execution of a user equipment relay process that transitions the aerial user equipment from being user equipment to being aerial network equipment; and transmitting to the core network equipment that the user equipment relay process has been successfully initiated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Technical Services Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Vivanco, Slawomir Stawiarski, David Beppler
  • Patent number: 12075452
    Abstract: A framework for dynamic network resource allocation and energy saving based on the real-time environment, radio network information, and machine learning (ML) can be utilized via a radio access network (RAN) intelligent controller (RIC). Real-time and predicted network utilization can facilitate resource and energy savings by leveraging the RIC platform. For example, a network information base (NIB) in the RIC platform can collects RAN and user equipment (UE) resource related information in real time and provides the abstraction of the access network in the real time. ML can predict real-time information about the UEs at time t based on data analytics and real time radio resource needs. The RIC can then instruct the network to reduce or increase resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Zhi Cui, Sangar Dowlatkhah, Paul Smith, Jr.
  • Patent number: 12073522
    Abstract: Interactive content can be managed and provided to occupants of an automated vehicle to enhance their experience while in the vehicle. Orchestrator component can determine interactive content based on conditions associated with the vehicle, user preferences, video content, or other information. Interactive content can comprise video content, audio content, and control content. Video content can comprise augmented reality or virtual reality content. Control content can be used to control vehicle operation in relation to or synchronization with presentation of video content. Orchestrator component can correlate between certain roads on which the vehicle can travel and entertainment presentations presented to a vehicle occupant. Orchestrator component can control vehicle operation to have the vehicle recreate a vehicle action sequence (VAS) in a video program being presented to the occupant in the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Miranda Huet, James Pratt, Eric Zavesky, Donald Perciful
  • Patent number: 12075197
    Abstract: A collaborative video camera system of an edge node can be used to track and predict objects, locations of the objects, and events associated therewith. For example, multiple cameras can be utilized to determine the direct in which an object is heading. This data can be used to activate and/or dispatch other cameras that may be at or near the predicted location of the object. Additionally, sound associated with the object can be used to predict and/or active cameras that are at or near the predicted location of the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Zhi Cui, Sangar Dowlatkhah, Nigel Bradley, Ari Craine, Robert Koch
  • Patent number: 12075242
    Abstract: Secure communication for autonomous vehicles can be increased by performing authentication operations before nodes, such as vehicles, roadside equipment (RSE), or base stations, are within communications range. A digital certificate management system for mobile nodes, including for moving vehicles, can facilitate ultra fast communications between vehicles and other nodes. The RSE can propagate vehicle node data, comprising direction, speed, or estimated time of arrival, to other vehicles and/or other RSEs. Consequently, this propagation of data prior to the communication between nodes can facilitate an efficient authentication system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventor: Joseph Soryal
  • Patent number: 12075298
    Abstract: A framework for a 6th generation (6G) ubiquitous wireless communications network is provided. A system comprises: a memory that stores executable instructions; and a processor, coupled to the memory, that facilitates execution of the executable instructions to perform operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Zhi Cui, Sangar Dowlatkhah, Paul Smith, Jr.
  • Patent number: 12073343
    Abstract: An example method, executed by a processing system, includes receiving data from a data source, routing the data to a plurality of different data labelers to label the data, determining that an inflection point associated with an accuracy of the plurality of different data labelers is reached, re-routing additional data from the data source to a machine learning model, and activating the machine learning model to label the additional data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Prateek Baranwal, Jami Daly, Martin Patrick McEnroe, Kelly Dowd
  • Patent number: 12069709
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, selecting a first network element for providing a first portion of a communication service to a communication device in an uplink direction based on first radio frequency conditions detected by the communication device, and selecting a second network element for providing the first portion of the communication service to the communication device in a downlink direction based on the first radio frequency conditions detected by the communication device, where the second network element is different from the first network element. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Zhi Cui, Hongyan Lei
  • Patent number: 12067861
    Abstract: A processing system including at least one processor may monitor a condition of a premises during a time period via at least one sensor, where at least one user is permitted a use of the premises during the time period, detect a change in the condition of the premises during the time period via the at least one sensor, determine a violation of at least one rule relating to the use of the premises by the at least one user, wherein the violation is indicated by the change in the condition, and generate an alert of the violation of the at least one rule relating to the use of the premises by the at least one user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Robert T. Moton, Jr., Adrianne Binh Luu, James Pratt, Barrett Kreiner, Walter Cooper Chastain, Ari Craine, Robert Koch
  • Patent number: 12068822
    Abstract: Fast calculation of channel state information using demodulation reference signals (DM-RS) is provided herein. Channel state information is traditionally calculated based on the channel state reference signals (CS-RS). Demodulation reference signals, which are used for channel estimation for a data channel, are transmitted at different times than CS-RS however, and so some portions of the channel state information including layer indicator (LI) and channel quality indicator (CQI) can be calculated based on the demodulation reference signals, allowing a network to adapt more quickly to changing channel conditions, without having to transmit a CS-RS. Generally, precoding matrix indicator and rank indicator, which cannot be determined based on the DM-RS, don't change as often and are more stable over time, thus do not need to be calculated as frequently as the LI and CQI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: SaiRamesh Nammi, Arunabha Ghosh
  • Patent number: 12067089
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, 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 requesting a license for software from first equipment of a license holder; receiving a passed ledger associated with the license from the first equipment of the license holder, wherein the passed ledger comprises a latest block; receiving a hash value for the latest block from a software vendor of the software; calculating a hash value for the latest block; and responsive to the hash value provided by second equipment of the software vendor matching the hash value calculated for the latest block: executing the software. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventor: Lars Johnson
  • Patent number: 12069555
    Abstract: Resources associated with a responder communication network and a communication network can be managed in an effective manner. In connection with an event, a resource management component (RMC) can analyze network-related data associated with the networks and external data relating to the event or a geographic area related thereto. In connection with the event, based on the analysis, RMC can desirably manage the resources, in part, by determining locations or adjustments for portable base stations, sensors, and/or devices associated with the responder communication network to facilitate high quality communication of information, determining traffic routes and other path planning for vehicles or personnel, creating network slices for high quality communication of information, and/or performing monitoring and intelligent troubleshooting with regard to the networks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Mehdi Malboubi, Raghvendra Savoor, Baofeng Jiang
  • Patent number: 12068906
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, identifying a plurality of mobile devices implementing an application, and identifying a group of mobile devices from among the plurality of mobile devices according to a first movement pattern of the group of mobile devices. Further aspects can include identifying a first mobile edge compute (MEC) node at a first location according to a proximity threshold that does not include a MEC agent for the application, and identifying a second MEC node at a second location that includes the MEC agent for the application according to the proximity threshold. Additional aspects can include determining a first network relative performance (NRP) metric associated with a first communications between the group of mobile devices and the second MEC node. The first communications are associated with the application. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Technical Services Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Stockert, Pamela Stuckman, Linda Baughman, Daniel Vivanco, Harold Kackley, Margaret Mayne
  • Patent number: 12067061
    Abstract: An automated information retrieval system includes a processor coupled to a communications interface and a non-transitory memory. The processor is configured to read instructions from the non-transitory memory to cause the system to perform operations comprising receiving a term including a plurality of words and generating a plurality of word vectors corresponding to the plurality of words respectively. A plurality of term vectors associated with the term is generated using the plurality of word vectors based on a plurality of term vector rules respectively. A combination term vector associated with the term is generated by combining the plurality of term vectors. One or more search results from a database for the term are provided using the combination term vector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Chih Chien Huang, Jianxiong Dong
  • Patent number: 12069179
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device with 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 a first record of sending a file and a hash for the file from a sender of the file; recording the first record on a blockchain; providing the first record to a receiver of the file; and monitoring a predetermined time period in which to receive a second record of receiving the file and the hash for the file. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Yaron Kanza, Divesh Srivastava, Tamraparni Dasu, Eleftherios Koutsofios
  • Patent number: 12068936
    Abstract: A processing system of a device having at least one processor may determine that a temperature of the device exceeds a threshold temperature and obtain, in response to the determining, utilization information of the device comprising: processor utilization information, memory utilization information, and network utilization information. The processing system may then detect, from the utilization information of the device, a pattern comprising: a first network utilization burst, a processor utilization exceeding a processor utilization threshold and a memory utilization exceeding a memory utilization threshold over at least a designated period of time following the first network utilization burst, and a second network utilization burst after at least the designated period of time. When the pattern is detected, the processing system may generate an unauthorized cryptomining alert.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Dylan Reid, Joseph Soryal
  • Patent number: 12069085
    Abstract: A method includes acquiring a plurality of hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) session packets associated with activities of a plurality of known Trojans, wherein all of the Trojans are identified by a common signature identifier, extracting a plurality of request packets from the session packets, identifying a plurality of suspicious request packets within the plurality of request packets, grouping the plurality of suspicious request packets into a plurality of subsets, computing a centroid of one subset of the plurality of subsets, identifying a representative packet for the subset, wherein the representative packet is identified based on the centroid, and generating a signature for the one subset, based on the representative packet, wherein the signature is deployable by an intrusion detection system to detect an instance of a Trojan of the plurality of known Trojans.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Srivathsan Srinivasagopalan, Ganesh Subramaniam
  • Patent number: 12067371
    Abstract: In an embodiment of a messaging system, a method for presenting a commercial message to a user is provided. A target language in which the user is comfortable communicating may be determined based on at least one communication received by the user or at least one communication provided by the user. The commercial message may be presented to the user in the target language.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY II, L.P.
    Inventor: Srinivas Bangalore
  • Patent number: 12063111
    Abstract: Techniques for controlling parameters for uplink transmission associated with a device to facilitate improving a communication condition metric(s) (CCM(s)) of the uplink transmission are presented. A communication management component (CMC) can determine whether CCM satisfies a first threshold CCM. If CCM does not, CMC can modify a parameter(s) to reduce a number of resource blocks or an MCS value to improve the CCM. If respective minimum threshold levels have been reached for the number of resource blocks and MCS value, and CCM still is not satisfying the first threshold CCM, CMC can modify a parameter to increase an amount of repetition of data packets for uplink transmission (unless a maximum threshold amount of repetition is reached). If CCM satisfies an applicable threshold CCM for a defined amount of time, CMC can modify parameters to increase the number of resource blocks, increase MCS value, or reduce repetition of data packets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Ye Chen, Arthur Brisebois, Hongyan Lei, Wen Yang, Yakun Gao
  • Patent number: 12063710
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device in which a processing system detects installation of a subscriber identity module (SIM) on a communication device configured for connection to the network; the SIM includes a radio policy manager (RPM) provided by the network operator to manage network policies. The system also monitors connection of the communication device to the network and communications between the SIM and a processor of the communication device. The RPM determines whether the communication device is compliant with the network policies; if the communication device is not compliant with the network policies, the RPM causes the connection of the communication device to the network to be disabled. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Jeff Bartlett, Jordan Alexander, Robert Holden
  • Patent number: 12061517
    Abstract: Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for using user equipment data clusters and spatial temporal graphs of abnormalities for root cause analysis. User equipment data can be obtained from a cellular network. A filter having a threshold can be applied to the user equipment data to obtain records. A determination is made whether the threshold is to be adaptively adjusted. If a determination is made that the threshold is not to be adjusted, the records can be added to a record set. The records in the subset of records can be correlated based on a key to obtain a filtered and correlated version of the record set, a spatial temporal graph of abnormalities associated with the cellular network can be generated based on the filtered and correlated version of the record set, and a root cause of a failure can be determined based on the spatial temporal graph of abnormalities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Mehdi Malboubi, Hyun Ok Lee, Baofeng Jiang
  • Patent number: 12063549
    Abstract: The disclosed technology is directed towards load balancing baseband units in a communications network. A baseband physical layer 1 unit's functions are disaggregated into Layer 1 (L1) distributed units and radio units, instead of deploying full-fledged baseband units at a service' provider's service areas (cells). A load balancer scales up the number of active distributed units based on increased actual demand, and scales down the active distributed units based on decreased demand. The L1 distributed units and radio units can be software-defined network functions, and need not be collocated, whereby the distributed units can be in the cloud or hub remotely located relative to the radio units deployed at the service areas. Examples of load balancing can be load balancing of transmitted data per carrier, per subcarrier, per user equipment, per transmission time interval (TTI/slot), per bearer, or per channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Minsung Jang, Aleksandr Zelezniak, Kaustubh Joshi
  • Patent number: 12063561
    Abstract: An enhanced automatic neighbor relation (“ANR”) function can estimate a plurality of terrestrial cells within a coverage area of an aerial cell. The enhanced ANR function can monitor an exchange of a serving cell unique identifier sent to a target cell and a target cell unique identifier sent to a serving cell. The enhanced ANR function can determine a serving cell type and a target cell type, wherein the serving cell type and the target cell type identify the serving cell and the target cell, respectively, as either a terrestrial cell type or an aerial cell type. The enhanced ANR function can then determine whether a serving cell neighbor relation table (“NRT”) associated with the serving cell, a target cell NRT associated with the target cell, or both would be compromised if a corresponding NR is added into the serving cell NRT and the target cell NRT.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignees: AT&T Technical Services Company, Inc., AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Daniel Vivanco, David Beppler, Slawomir Stawiarski
  • Patent number: 12063143
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining first data pertaining to an outage in a first portion of a communications system, obtaining second data pertaining to a relationship between the first portion of the communications system and a second portion of the communications system, analyzing the first data the second data to identify a risk to communication services facilitated by the second portion of the communications system, determining that the risk is greater than a threshold, and generating, based on the determining, a recommendation for reducing the risk. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Christopher May, Chris Kaylor, Robert Thornton, Paul Burns
  • Patent number: 12058150
    Abstract: Network security is applied to identify malicious activity occurring on a network or at network nodes from a coordinated attack. For instance, a device, comprising a memory and a processor, can generate a first flag signal representative of a first flag applicable to first data and a second flag signal representative of a second flag applicable to second data in response to the first and second data being determined to be related and directed to a common destination node using identifiers associated with network equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Joseph Soryal, Dylan Chamberlain Reid
  • Patent number: 12056488
    Abstract: A method includes generating a bill of materials for a piece of source code, where the piece of source code comprises a plurality of lines of code, providing the bill of materials to a knowledge base with a request for known call signatures, receiving, from the knowledge base, a list comprising a plurality of known call signatures and a plurality of reuse estimates, wherein each reuse estimate of the plurality of reuse estimates indicates an estimate of a number of lines of reused code associated with one call signature of the plurality of known call signatures, generating an initial calculation of a number of lines of reused code that are present in the piece of source code, using the list comprising the plurality of known call signatures, and generating a report indicating an amount of the source code that comprises reused code, based on at least the initial calculation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Global Network Services Belgium Luxembourg SP
    Inventors: Christophe Closset, Catherine Lefevre, Sebastien Determe, Anaël Closson, Pierre Close, Richard Williams
  • Patent number: 12058151
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining data that identifies network traffic associated with a threat actor, responsive to the obtaining the data, performing feature extraction on the data, resulting in extracted features, classifying the network traffic based on the extracted features, detecting, in accordance with the classifying the network traffic, an action change in the network traffic, resulting in a detected action change, predicting a future traffic profile for the threat actor based on the detected action change, and responsive to the predicting the future traffic profile, generating an alert regarding the future traffic profile, thereby enabling mitigation of a security risk associated with the threat actor. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.
    Inventors: James Brunner, Laurie Kraus, Christopher Iverson, James Cignarella, Krissa Van Hoorebeke
  • Patent number: 12057125
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method in which a processing system generates a list of communications desired by a user, and determines an attentiveness level of the user with respect to equipment of the user currently in use, to determine whether the user is available to participate in a desired communication. The method also includes accessing equipment of a target party of the communication to determine an attentiveness level of the target party with respect to equipment of the target party, to determine whether the target party is available to participate in the communication. The method also includes generating a notice at the equipment of the user that the target party is available; and initiating the communication between the equipment of the user and the equipment of the target party. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Ari Craine, Robert Koch, Alexander MacDougall, Anna Lidzba, Nigel Bradley, James Carlton Bedingfield
  • Patent number: 12058777
    Abstract: Adaptive user equipment capability reporting is disclosed. Continuing increases in the number of radio access technologies and more granular division of radio spectrum can result in a conventional user equipment capability report exceeding a threshold size, such as a threshold size set by a standards organization. In response, a conventional user equipment capability report can be truncated, which can result in loss of valuable user equipment capability information. The disclosed subject matter provides for generating an adapted user equipment capability report that can be smaller than the conventional user equipment capability reports in response to receiving an oversize user equipment capability report. The adapted user equipment capability report can intelligently comprise a preferred user equipment capability and can segregate reported capabilities by radio access technology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Ruifeng Wang, Yupeng Jia
  • Patent number: 12055404
    Abstract: Sentiment-based navigation is provided herein. A method can include extracting features of sensor data captured by a sensor associated with a vehicle, wherein the sensor data is representative of a subject selected from a group of subjects comprising an occupant of the vehicle and an environment in which the vehicle is located, resulting in extracted features. The method can further include determining sentiment data representative of an emotional condition of the occupant of the vehicle based on an analysis of the extracted features, and generating a navigation route for the vehicle from an origin point to a destination point based on the sentiment data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Howard Lang, Joseph Soryal
  • Patent number: 12058009
    Abstract: Techniques for integrating a device platform in a core network or MEC environment, and managing data communications associated with devices are presented. The device platform, integrated with the core network or MEC environment, can comprise a communication management component (CMC) that can manage communication of data associated with devices connected to the core network. CMC can receive data and metadata from a device, analyze the data and metadata, and, based on the analyzing and data management criteria, determine whether any, all, or a portion of the data is to be communicated to a second device associated with the core network or associated communication network. CMC can be trained, using machine learning, to learn to identify device types, communication protocols, and data payload formats of devices. Based on the analyzing and the training, CMC can determine the device type, communication protocol, and data payload format associated with the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Basavaraj Patil, Mobeen Khan
  • Patent number: 12058628
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, collecting performance information for a plurality of user equipment (UE) devices and a base station in a radio communication network, determining that one or more UE devices experience a synchronization failure attempting to connect to a base station, determining to temporarily boost transmit power of a synchronization signal block by the base station to facilitate synchronization, determining a boosted power level of the transmit power of the synchronization signal block to minimize disruption to UE devices in an overlapping area between a first cell coverage area of the base station and a second cell coverage area of an adjacent base station, transmitting the synchronization signal block by the base station at the boosted power level for reception by the UE devices, and connecting one or more UE devices to the base station. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Technical Services Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Vivanco, David Ross Beppler, Slawomir Mikolaj Stawiarski