Patents by Inventor Ali Wahid

Ali Wahid has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20240064728
    Abstract: Systems and methods of frequency planning for a cellular gateway in a Wi-Fi network include connecting to cellular infrastructure at a cellular frequency; providing a Wi-Fi connection at a Wi-Fi frequency selected to coexist with the cellular frequency; and responsive to interference between the cellular frequency and the Wi-Fi frequency, performing one or more actions to reduce the interference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2022
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: Ali Wahid, Prashant Jadhav, William J. McFarland, Yoseph Malkin
  • Publication number: 20240064628
    Abstract: Systems and methods of selecting and controlling base stations for connectivity to a cellular gateway for a Wi-Fi network include obtaining information related to a cellular infrastructure of a cellular network; determining a list of preferred cellular identifiers, each identifying a cell for connectivity with the cellular gateway, based on a plurality of factors; and providing the list of preferred cellular identifiers to the cellular gateway where the cellular gateway utilizes the list for wireless access to the cellular infrastructure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2022
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: Adam R. Hotchkiss, Arun Kalmanje, William J. McFarland, Yoseph Malkin, Ali Wahid
  • Publication number: 20240064610
    Abstract: Systems and methods of geographically limiting a cellular gateway for a Wi-Fi network include obtaining a location of the cellular gateway; determining whether the cellular gateway is authorized to operate at the location on a given cellular network; and performing an action including any of blocking, allowing, or partially allowing operation of the cellular gateway on the cellular network. The method can be implemented by a cloud service, and wherein the location is determined by one of the cellular gateway and a user device connected to the cellular gateway.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2022
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: Ali Wahid, Arun Kalmanje, Adam R. Hotchkiss, William J. McFarland
  • Publication number: 20240064577
    Abstract: Systems and methods for Wi-Fi network failover to cellular connection with throttling of traffic include detecting an outage on wired connections for any of the plurality of Wi-Fi networks; determining the any of the plurality of Wi-Fi networks have switched to a cellular connection as a failover based on the outage; and determining whether to throttle traffic on any cellular connection based on the failover and instructing corresponding gateways accordingly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2022
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: Ali Wahid, Yoseph Malkin, Manikanden Balakrishnan, William J. McFarland
  • Publication number: 20240064866
    Abstract: Systems and methods of installing a cellular gateway in a Wi-Fi network include obtaining a cellular gateway that is configured to provide cellular connectivity to the Internet for an associated Wi-Fi network; measuring a plurality of locations in a building for the Wi-Fi network; and receiving an indication based on the measuring, on a mobile device, for locating the cellular gateway in the building. The mobile device can execute at least one of a mobile application and a browser session and communicates with the cellular gateway via any of Bluetooth and Wi-Fi.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2022
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: Ali Wahid, Arun Kalmanje, Yoseph Malkin
  • Publication number: 20230020832
    Abstract: System and methods for managing a Wi-Fi network of a plurality of Wi-Fi networks from a cloud-based Network Operations Control (NOC) dashboard are provided. A method, according to one implementations, includes the step of obtaining Wi-Fi metrics and cellular metrics from a network. The method also includes the step of displaying a dashboard on a user interface for use by a support agent at a Network Operations Center (NOC). Also, the method includes the step of displaying both the Wi-Fi metrics and the cellular metrics on the dashboard.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventors: Adam R. Hotchkiss, Yoseph Malkin, Ali Wahid, William J. McFarland, Manikanden Balakrishnan
  • Patent number: 11425635
    Abstract: Small cell identification using machine learning is provided. A method can include extracting, by a device comprising a processor, signal strength information for a cell in a cellular communication network from user equipment log data; estimating, by the device, path loss information associated with the cell at respective distances based on the signal strength information for the cell, resulting in estimated path loss information; and, based on the estimated path loss information, optionally along with other information such as antenna transmission power, antenna transmission frequency band, percentage of user equipments having a distance to a base station within a threshold, maximum user equipment distance to a base station, etc., classifying, by the device, the cell as a type from a group of types of cells, the group comprising a macro cell and a small cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Helen Zeng, Ali Wahid
  • Publication number: 20210136670
    Abstract: Small cell identification using machine learning is provided. A method can include extracting, by a device comprising a processor, signal strength information for a cell in a cellular communication network from user equipment log data; estimating, by the device, path loss information associated with the cell at respective distances based on the signal strength information for the cell, resulting in estimated path loss information; and, based on the estimated path loss information, optionally along with other information such as antenna transmission power, antenna transmission frequency band, percentage of user equipments having a distance to a base station within a threshold, maximum user equipment distance to a base station, etc., classifying, by the device, the cell as a type from a group of types of cells, the group comprising a macro cell and a small cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2021
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Inventors: Helen Zeng, Ali Wahid
  • Patent number: 10917836
    Abstract: Small cell identification using machine learning is provided. A method can include extracting, by a device comprising a processor, signal strength information for a cell in a cellular communication network from user equipment log data; estimating, by the device, path loss information associated with the cell at respective distances based on the signal strength information for the cell, resulting in estimated path loss information; and, based on the estimated path loss information, optionally along with other information such as antenna transmission power, antenna transmission frequency band, percentage of user equipments having a distance to a base station within a threshold, maximum user equipment distance to a base station, etc., classifying, by the device, the cell as a type from a group of types of cells, the group comprising a macro cell and a small cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Helen Zeng, Ali Wahid
  • Publication number: 20200178161
    Abstract: Small cell identification using machine learning is provided. A method can include extracting, by a device comprising a processor, signal strength information for a cell in a cellular communication network from user equipment log data; estimating, by the device, path loss information associated with the cell at respective distances based on the signal strength information for the cell, resulting in estimated path loss information; and, based on the estimated path loss information, optionally along with other information such as antenna transmission power, antenna transmission frequency band, percentage of user equipments having a distance to a base station within a threshold, maximum user equipment distance to a base station, etc., classifying, by the device, the cell as a type from a group of types of cells, the group comprising a macro cell and a small cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventors: Helen Zeng, Ali Wahid