Patents by Inventor Dean Bragg
Dean Bragg 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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Patent number: 11463317Abstract: A network functions virtualization (NFV) network can be configured to operate according to NFV protocols that decouple software functionality from specific hardware elements. A referent system can be provided that identifies a precise physical location of devices associated with the NFV network relative to other equipment or devices associated with the NFV network.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2020Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Robert M. Higgins, Mark Jeffrey Foladare, Dean Bragg, John Ng
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Publication number: 20220294705Abstract: A method includes receiving, by a processor, metadata for deploying a virtual function on a cloud network. The method may include determining, by the processor, whether deployment of the virtual function is possible without conflicting with the metadata. The method may include based on the determination that the deployment of the virtual function is possible without conflicting with the metadata, designing, by the processor, a cloud plan, or a transport plan. The method may include determining, based on the metadata, a network configuration to implement the cloud plan or the transport plan. The method may include configuring, by the processor, the cloud network using the network configuration.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2022Publication date: September 15, 2022Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: George Dome, Dean Bragg, Chuxin Chen, John Ng, John Oetting
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Patent number: 11381469Abstract: A method includes receiving, by a processor, metadata for deploying a virtual function on a cloud network. The method may include determining, by the processor, whether deployment of the virtual function is possible without conflicting with the metadata. The method may include based on the determination that the deployment of the virtual function is possible without conflicting with the metadata, designing, by the processor, a cloud plan, or a transport plan. The method may include determining, based on the metadata, a network configuration to implement the cloud plan or the transport plan. The method may include configuring, by the processor, the cloud network using the network configuration.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2020Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: George Dome, Dean Bragg, Chuxin Chen, John Ng, John Oetting
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Publication number: 20210075685Abstract: A network functions virtualization (NFV) network can be configured to operate according to NFV protocols that decouple software functionality from specific hardware elements. A referent system can be provided that identifies a precise physical location of devices associated with the NFV network relative to other equipment or devices associated with the NFV network.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2020Publication date: March 11, 2021Inventors: Robert M. Higgins, Mark Jeffrey Foladare, Dean Bragg, John Ng
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Patent number: 10892948Abstract: Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for creating and using service control functions. The service control functions can detect a message via an adapter function. The message can relate to a service controlled by the service control functions. Service policies can be accessed. The service policies can include message handling policies and can be accessed to determine if a policy relating to the message exists. If a determination is made that the policy exists, the message and the policy can be analyzed to determine an action to take with respect to the message, and the action can be initiated.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2019Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Walter Cooper Chastain, Reuben Klein, Dean Bragg, John Oetting, Frank Cariello, Paul Edward Smith, Jr.
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Publication number: 20200403880Abstract: A method includes receiving, by a processor, metadata for deploying a virtual function on a cloud network. The method may include determining, by the processor, whether deployment of the virtual function is possible without conflicting with the metadata. The method may include based on the determination that the deployment of the virtual function is possible without conflicting with the metadata, designing, by the processor, a cloud plan, or a transport plan. The method may include determining, based on the metadata, a network configuration to implement the cloud plan or the transport plan. The method may include configuring, by the processor, the cloud network using the network configuration.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2020Publication date: December 24, 2020Inventors: George Dome, Dean Bragg, Chuxin Chen, John Ng, John Oetting
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Patent number: 10862763Abstract: A network functions virtualization (NFV) network can be configured to operate according to NFV protocols that decouple software functionality from specific hardware elements. A referent system can be provided that identifies a precise physical location of devices associated with the NFV network relative to other equipment or devices associated with the NFV network.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2019Date of Patent: December 8, 2020Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Robert M. Higgins, Mark Jeffrey Foladare, Dean Bragg, John Ng
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Patent number: 10805172Abstract: A method includes receiving metadata for deploying a virtual function on a cloud network. The metadata includes a recipe, policy, and template. The method includes, based on the metadata, designing a cloud plan and a transport plan for deploying the virtual function on the cloud network to meet a forecasted demand. The method includes determining a network configuration to implement the cloud plan and the network plan based on the metadata and causing the cloud network to be configured using the network configuration. The method includes instantiating the virtual function on the configured cloud network.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2017Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: George Dome, Dean Bragg, Chuxin Chen, John Ng, John Oetting
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Patent number: 10628251Abstract: An intelligent preventative maintenance architecture for maintaining a plurality of cloud components operating within a cloud computing environment is disclosed. The architecture can perform a predictive failure analysis that monitors health of at least a portion of the plurality of cloud components that hosts a mission critical application. The predictive failure analysis receives sensor data that includes environmental data associated with environmental characteristics of the cloud computing environment and cloud component data associated with operational characteristics of at least a portion of the plurality of cloud components operating within the cloud computing environment. The predictive failure analysis analyzes the sensor data to detect an abnormal pattern within the sensor data, determines a root cause of the abnormal pattern, and predicts a probability of a failure of at least one cloud component of the plurality of cloud components.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2017Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: George Dome, Dean Bragg, John Ng, John Oetting, Chuxin Chen
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Publication number: 20200059410Abstract: A network functions virtualization (NFV) network can be configured to operate according to NFV protocols that decouple software functionality from specific hardware elements. A referent system can be provided that identifies a precise physical location of devices associated with the NFV network relative to other equipment or devices associated with the NFV network.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2019Publication date: February 20, 2020Inventors: Robert M. Higgins, Mark Jeffrey Foladare, Dean Bragg, John Ng
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Patent number: 10491484Abstract: A network functions virtualization (NFV) network can be configured to operate according to NFV protocols that decouple software functionality from specific hardware elements. A referent system can be provided that identifies a precise physical location of devices associated with the NFV network relative to other equipment or devices associated with the NFV network.Type: GrantFiled: January 2, 2018Date of Patent: November 26, 2019Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Robert M. Higgins, Mark Jeffrey Foladare, Dean Bragg, John Ng
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Publication number: 20190334776Abstract: Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for creating and using service control functions. The service control functions can detect a message via an adapter function. The message can relate to a service controlled by the service control functions. Service policies can be accessed. The service policies can include message handling policies and can be accessed to determine if a policy relating to the message exists. If a determination is made that the policy exists, the message and the policy can be analyzed to determine an action to take with respect to the message, and the action can be initiated.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2019Publication date: October 31, 2019Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Walter Cooper Chastain, Reuben Klein, Dean Bragg, John Oetting, Frank Cariello, Paul Edward Smith, JR.
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Patent number: 10348569Abstract: Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for creating and using service control functions. The service control functions can detect a message via an adapter function. The message can relate to a service controlled by the service control functions. Service policies can be accessed. The service policies can include message handling policies and can be accessed to determine if a policy relating to the message exists. If a determination is made that the policy exists, the message and the policy can be analyzed to determine an action to take with respect to the message, and the action can be initiated.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2017Date of Patent: July 9, 2019Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Walter Cooper Chastain, Reuben Klein, Dean Bragg, John Oetting, Frank Cariello, Paul Edward Smith
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Patent number: 10248472Abstract: Concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to recursive modularization of service provider components to reduce service delivery time and cost. In accordance with one aspect disclosed herein, a module is executable by a hardware compute resource of a virtualization platform. The module can include a module controller and a module instance. The module controller can expose a set of application programming interfaces (“APIs”). The set of APIs can include a configuration API that collects a configuration to be utilized to instantiate the module instance. The set of APIs also can include an instance provisioning API that instantiates the module instance based upon the configuration. The set of APIs also can include one or more other APIs to manage the module instance. The module instance can be a service module instance. The service module instance can encapsulate additional service module instances that have been instantiated by another module.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2015Date of Patent: April 2, 2019Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Richard R. Erickson, Basundhara Prasad, Dean Bragg, Richard D. Schlichting, Pamela Lilly DeFazio, Adrian Vulpas, John Oetting
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Publication number: 20190095265Abstract: An intelligent preventative maintenance architecture for maintaining a plurality of cloud components operating within a cloud computing environment is disclosed. The architecture can perform a predictive failure analysis that monitors health of at least a portion of the plurality of cloud components that hosts a mission critical application. The predictive failure analysis receives sensor data that includes environmental data associated with environmental characteristics of the cloud computing environment and cloud component data associated with operational characteristics of at least a portion of the plurality of cloud components operating within the cloud computing environment. The predictive failure analysis analyzes the sensor data to detect an abnormal pattern within the sensor data, determines a root cause of the abnormal pattern, and predicts a probability of a failure of at least one cloud component of the plurality of cloud components.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2017Publication date: March 28, 2019Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: George Dome, Dean Bragg, John Ng, John Oetting, Chuxin Chen
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Publication number: 20180302273Abstract: A method includes receiving metadata for deploying a virtual function on a cloud network. The metadata includes a recipe, policy, and template. The method includes, based on the metadata, designing a cloud plan and a transport plan for deploying the virtual function on the cloud network to meet a forecasted demand. The method includes determining a network configuration to implement the cloud plan and the network plan based on the metadata and causing the cloud network to be configured using the network configuration. The method includes instantiating the virtual function on the configured cloud network.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2017Publication date: October 18, 2018Inventors: George Dome, Dean Bragg, Chuxin Chen, John Ng, John Oetting
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Publication number: 20180145882Abstract: A network functions virtualization (NFV) network can be configured to operate according to NFV protocols that decouple software functionality from specific hardware elements. A referent system can be provided that identifies a precise physical location of devices associated with the NFV network relative to other equipment or devices associated with the NFV network.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 2, 2018Publication date: May 24, 2018Inventors: Robert M. Higgins, Mark Jeffrey Foladare, Dean Bragg, John Ng
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Publication number: 20180091372Abstract: Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for creating and using service control functions. The service control functions can detect a message via an adapter function. The message can relate to a service controlled by the service control functions. Service policies can be accessed. The service policies can include message handling policies and can be accessed to determine if a policy relating to the message exists. If a determination is made that the policy exists, the message and the policy can be analyzed to determine an action to take with respect to the message, and the action can be initiated.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2017Publication date: March 29, 2018Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Walter Cooper Chastain, Reuben Klein, Dean Bragg, John Oetting, Frank Cariello, Paul Edward Smith, JR.
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Patent number: 9887882Abstract: A network functions virtualization (NFV) network can be configured to operate according to NFV protocols that decouple software functionality from specific hardware elements. A referent system can be provided that identifies a precise physical location of devices associated with the NFV network relative to other equipment or devices associated with the NFV network.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2015Date of Patent: February 6, 2018Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.Inventors: Robert M. Higgins, Mark Jeffrey Foladare, Dean Bragg, John Ng
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Patent number: 9825813Abstract: Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for creating and using service control functions. The service control functions can detect a message via an adapter function. The message can relate to a service controlled by the service control functions. Service policies can be accessed. The service policies can include message handling policies and can be accessed to determine if a policy relating to the message exists. If a determination is made that the policy exists, the message and the policy can be analyzed to determine an action to take with respect to the message, and the action can be initiated.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2014Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Walter Cooper Chastain, Reuben Klein, Dean Bragg, John Oetting, Frank Cariello, Paul Edward Smith, Jr.