Patents by Inventor AT & T Intellectual Property II, L.P.
AT & T Intellectual Property II, L.P. 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).
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Publication number: 20130235994Abstract: A system and methodology for managing a mute function muting a connection to a conference call is disclosed. The system is implemented when the mute function is activated on a line connected to a conference call through a telecommunications network. The method includes receiving a sound, determining whether the sound meets predetermined criteria and if the sound meets predetermined criteria then performing a mute status operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2013Publication date: September 12, 2013Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P., via transfer from AT&T Corp.Inventor: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P., via transfer from AT&T Corp.
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Publication number: 20130223232Abstract: The present invention provides a complete virtual multi-vendor EMS based network that behaves identical to the network elements of the EMS clients. A virtual network simulator is built that has the ability to faithfully simulate the behavior of any vendor's EMS to represent the data objects required by the TMF 814 specification. This allows automatic provisioning and maintenance of the Operation Support Systems to fully test new functionality against complete EMS based network without depending upon the availability of any physical equipment, thereby providing much quicker, low cost, extremely life-like testing environment.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2013Publication date: August 29, 2013Applicant: AT & T Intellectual Property II, L.P.Inventor: AT & T Intellectual Property II, L.P.
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Publication number: 20130226571Abstract: A method for performing packet loss or Frame Erasure Concealment (FEC) for a speech coder receives encoded frames of compressed speech information transmitted from an encoder. The method determines whether an encoded frame has been lost, corrupted in transmission, or erased, synthesizes properly received frames, and decides on an overlap-add window to use in combining a portion of the synthesized speech signal with a subsequent speech signal resulting from a received and decoded packet, where the size of the overlap-add window is based on the unavailability of packets. If it is determined that an encoded frame has been lost, corrupted in transmission, or erased, the method performed an overlap-add operation on the portion of the synthesized speech signal and the subsequent speech signal, using the decided-on overlap-add window.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2013Publication date: August 29, 2013Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.Inventor: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.
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Publication number: 20130227671Abstract: An in-band signaling method that enables secure updates of a care-of-IP address for a mobile host that roams between access networks. In the illustrative embodiment described herein, a mobile host includes an intelligent interface that handles IP networking functions and tunnels IP packets between the mobile host and the mobile host's home agent/remote access server (HA/RAS) transparently, as if the mobile host established a connection to a communicating or destination host (DST) from the home network (where the HA/RAS resides). In accordance with an aspect of the invention, there is provided an in-band signaling method that employs encrypted three-way handshake signaling messages that are embedded in encapsulated IP packets to enable care-of IP address updates. This method can effectively protect mobile hosts from denial-of-service attacks and is transparent to NAT/NAPT firewalls.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2013Publication date: August 29, 2013Applicant: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY II, L.P.Inventor: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY II, L.P.
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Publication number: 20130219059Abstract: A method and system for distributing content on a network through network-wide transactions is disclosed. The method and system monitors the network using triggered measurement of the performance of an element of the network, dynamically computing, based on the monitoring, the regions of the network with available performance capacity for the transaction to proceed at a given time, determining, based on the computing, a scheduled time for the transaction to proceed, and distributing the content according to a schedule related to the scheduled time.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2013Publication date: August 22, 2013Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.Inventor: AT & T Intellectual Property II, L.P.
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Publication number: 20130215796Abstract: A method and apparatus for transferring a user data profile from a user's home terminal to a visiting terminal is disclosed. User or network configuration settings are transferred from a home telephony adapter to a visiting telephony adapter. In accordance with one embodiment, a computer readable medium, such as a flash drive is inserted into the home telephony adapter and, either with or without authentication, user or network configuration settings are transferred from the home telephony adapter to the medium. In another embodiment, the medium is then inserted into the visiting telephony adapter.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2013Publication date: August 22, 2013Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.Inventor: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.
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Publication number: 20130218564Abstract: A system and method for providing a natural language interface to a database or the Internet. The method provides a response from a database to a natural language query. The method comprises receiving a user query, extracting key data from the user query, submitting the extracted key data to a data base search engine to retrieve a top n pages from the data base, processing of the top n pages through a natural language dialog engine and providing a response based on processing the top n pages.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2013Publication date: August 22, 2013Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.Inventor: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.
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Publication number: 20130219407Abstract: A disclosed example involves determining whether there is at least one valid combination of nodes and links from the network of nodes with capability and capacity over time to complete a computer-executable job by a deadline. A total cost combination of nodes and links is selected from among the at least one valid combination of nodes and links with the capability and capacity over time to complete the computer-executable job by the deadline. The computer-executable job is scheduled to be executed on at least one selected node. The scheduling is based on compiled instructions comprising the computer-executable job. At least some of the link capacity of at least one of the links connected to the at least one selected node is reserved, to match a job transport capacity requirement of the computer-executable job.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2013Publication date: August 22, 2013Inventor: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.
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Publication number: 20130212468Abstract: Disclosed is a web server that includes a headlines module for automatically generating headlines based on data retrieved from a network (e.g., World Wide Web). The web server also includes an interactive agent for generating responses to inquiries relating to the headlines based on the data.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2013Publication date: August 15, 2013Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.Inventor: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.
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Publication number: 20130212705Abstract: A system, method and computer readable media provided for watermarking a digital file. The method comprises altering samples of the digital file available for distribution upon request by adding a number such as +or a ?1 to each sample of the digital file according to a probability value and compressing the digital file with the altered samples. Altering the sample of the digital file may be done on a per distribution or per sale basis.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2013Publication date: August 15, 2013Applicant: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY II, L.P.Inventor: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.
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Publication number: 20130185059Abstract: The invention concerns a method and corresponding system for building a phonotactic model for domain independent speech recognition. The method may include recognizing phones from a user's input communication using a current phonotactic model, detecting morphemes (acoustic and/or non-acoustic) from the recognized phones, and outputting the detected morphemes for processing. The method also updates the phonotactic model with the detected morphemes and stores the new model in a database for use by the system during the next user interaction. The method may also include making task-type classification decisions based on the detected morphemes from the user's input communication.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2013Publication date: July 18, 2013Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.Inventor: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.
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Publication number: 20130177893Abstract: Disclosed is a method and apparatus for responding to an inquiry from a client via a network. The method and apparatus receive the inquiry from a client via a network. Based on the inquiry, question-answer pairs retrieved from the network are analyzed to determine a response to the inquiry. The QA pairs are not predefined. As a result, the QA pairs have to be analyzed in order to determine whether they are responsive to a particular inquiry. Questions of the QA pairs may be repetitive and, without more, will not be useful in determining whether their corresponding answer responds to an inquiry.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2013Publication date: July 11, 2013Applicant: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY II, L.P.Inventor: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.
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Publication number: 20130177141Abstract: Disclosed are systems, methods, and computer readable media for tracking a person of interest. The method embodiment comprises identifying a person of interest, capturing a voiceprint of the person of interest, comparing a received voiceprint of a caller with the voiceprint of the person of interest, and tracking the caller if the voiceprint of the caller is a substantial match to the voiceprint of the person of interest.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2013Publication date: July 11, 2013Applicant: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY II, L.P.Inventor: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY II, L.P.
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Publication number: 20130176312Abstract: A method for evaluating and printing a 3D model is provided. According to one aspect, a method is provided for determining quickly what areas of a modeled object can be printed. According to one embodiment, a method is provided that distinguishes from “features” of a model versus “details.” According to one aspect, it is appreciated that some details of a model may be omitted safely in a 3D print output, while portions of a model identified as features may not be printed without some defect in the output. Systems and methods are provided for evaluating the object and its regions and determining whether the object can be printed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2013Publication date: July 11, 2013Inventor: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.
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Publication number: 20130179160Abstract: The present invention is a system and method for packetizing actual noise signals, typically background noise, received by an access gateway from a speaking party and transmitting these packetized noise signals via a network to an egress gateway. The egress gateway converts the packetized noise signal into noise signals suitable for output and transmits the output noise signals to a listening party. When the access gateway detects that no voice signal is being received and only a noise signal is being received for a predetermined period of time, the access gateway instructs the egress network to continually transmit output noise signals to the listening party and ceases to transmit packetized noise signals to the egress gateway.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2013Publication date: July 11, 2013Applicant: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY II, L.P.Inventor: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.
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Publication number: 20130170563Abstract: A video coding system that codes video objects as scalable video object layers. Data of each video object may be segregated in to one or more layers. A base layer contains sufficient information to decode a basic representation of the video object. Enhancement layers contain supplementary data regarding the video object that, if decoded, enhance the basic representation obtained from the base layer. The present invention thus provides a coding scheme suitable for use with decoders of varying processing power. A simple decoder may decode only the base layer of the video objects to obtain the basic representation. However, more powerful decoders may decode the base layer data of video objects and additional enhancement layer data to obtain improved decoded output. The coding scheme supports enhancement of both the spatial resolution and the temporal resolution of video object.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2013Publication date: July 4, 2013Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.Inventor: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.
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Publication number: 20130170403Abstract: A subscriber (12, 14, 16) initiating an Internet telephony call may receive specific content targeted to that subscriber in accordance with a match between at least one of the dialed number and the calling party number. Upon receipt of the subscriber's Internet telephony call, an Internet Telephony Service Provider server (18) searches each of a dialed number database, a calling party number database and a default database to establish a match between the calling party number, the dialed number or a range of either numbers. Upon finding a match, the Internet Telephony Service Provider server retrieves corresponding content, typically in the form of a URL that links to an associated web site, to provide to the subscriber who may elect to retrieve that information at the subscriber's discretion.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2013Publication date: July 4, 2013Applicant: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY II, L.P.Inventor: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.
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Publication number: 20130166284Abstract: A system and method are disclosed that improve automatic speech recognition in a spoken dialog system. The method comprises partitioning speech recognizer output into self-contained clauses, identifying a dialog act in each of the self-contained clauses, qualifying dialog acts by identifying a current domain object and/or a current domain action, and determining whether further qualification is possible for the current domain object and/or current domain action. If further qualification is possible, then the method comprises identifying another domain action and/or another domain object associated with the current domain object and/or current domain action, reassigning the another domain action and/or another domain object as the current domain action and/or current domain object and then recursively qualifying the new current domain action and/or current object. This process continues until nothing is left to qualify.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2013Publication date: June 27, 2013Applicant: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY II, L.P.Inventor: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.
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Publication number: 20130166294Abstract: A frame erasure concealment technique for a bitstream-based feature extractor in a speech recognition system particularly suited for use in a wireless communication system operates to “delete” each frame in which an erasure is declared. The deletions thus reduce the length of the observation sequence, but have been found to provide for sufficient speech recognition based on both single word and “string” tests of the deletion technique.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2012Publication date: June 27, 2013Applicant: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY II, L.P.Inventor: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.
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Publication number: 20130156027Abstract: The present invention provides a facility management platform to monitor and view the status of a plurality of individually addressable downstream devices including, but not limited to, addressable terminals, IRG's, settops, cable modems, taps, nodes, and/or hubs at a network control center. The FMP may display problems at these downstream devices, for example, power loss, and/or may automatically notify the appropriate companies and/or personnel to correct the problem.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2013Publication date: June 20, 2013Applicant: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY II, L.P.Inventor: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.