Abstract: Methods, computer-readable media, and processing systems are disclosed for establishing a data sharing community for an event of an event type. For example, a processing system including at least one processor may detect, via at least one data source device, a trigger condition for an event of an event type, and establish a data sharing community for the event, the data sharing community including a plurality of data sources, the plurality of data sources including the at least one data source device, and a plurality of data consumers, where the establishing includes setting respective permission levels for the data consumers. The processing system may further collect data from the plurality of data sources in accordance with the event type, and provide at least a first portion of the data to at least a first data consumer in accordance with a respective permission level of at least the first data consumer.

Abstract: An example method includes presenting a remote broadcast event to a first set of user endpoint devices including at least one host device and a second set of user endpoint devices including a plurality of audience devices, monitoring reactions of audience members of the remote broadcast event, based on streams of data received from the second set of user endpoint devices, and displaying, to the first set of user endpoint devices, a measure of the reactions of the audience members, based on the monitoring.

Abstract: An example method includes obtaining a profile of a user using a user device to present an immersive experience, wherein the profile specifies a user reaction indicator and a value that represents a baseline for the user reaction indicator, presenting the immersive experience on the user device, receiving user state data including a current value of the user reaction indicator, determining that the current value of the user reaction indicator deviates from the value that represents the baseline by more than a threshold, in response to the determining, selecting, from among a plurality of variants for a segment of the immersive experience, a variant that is expected to cause the current value of the user reaction indicator to adjust to a value that does not deviate from the value that represents the baseline by more than the threshold, and presenting the variant that is selected on the user device.

Abstract: In one example, a method includes presenting a virtual event to a plurality of user endpoint devices associated with a plurality of participants, receiving, while the virtual event is in progress, a first signal from a first user endpoint device, wherein the first signal indicates that a first participant wishes to join the virtual event, admitting the first participant to the virtual event, and selecting, from among a plurality of candidate locations, a first location in the virtual event in which to place the first participant.

Abstract: An example method includes detecting a request from a first user endpoint device to play back an extended reality media, detecting a moderation rule associated with a user of the first user endpoint device, presenting the extended reality media on the first user endpoint device, while monitoring for content within the extended reality media that triggers the moderation rule, determining, in response to detecting content in the extended reality media that triggers the moderation rule, a modification to be made to the extended reality media that would prevent the extended reality media from triggering the moderation rule, and presenting the modification on the user endpoint device, simultaneously with the extended reality media, to render a modified extended reality media.

Abstract: In one example, a method includes presenting an extended reality (XR) experience to a plurality of user devices, wherein the presenting includes presenting a time control along with an XR stream, receiving a first signal from a first user device of the plurality of user devices via the time control, wherein the first signal indicates that a user of the first user device wishes to shift the XR stream to a first point in time that is different from a time that is currently being rendered in the XR stream, and presenting a personal XR environment to the first user device in response to the first signal, wherein the personal XR environment presents the first point in time in the XR stream to the first user device without changing a time point of the XR stream that is currently being presented to other user devices of the plurality of user devices.

Abstract: A method, where the method includes discovering an event where at least one device is offline and instantiating an emergency mode causing the at least one device to permit data or message aggregation. The method further includes defining a community of devices including an identity of the at least one device and establishing communication between the at least one device and a mobile aggregation device. The method further includes when the mobile aggregation device is in communication with the at least one device, aggregating a payload of a message or data from the at least one device and the community having an artificial intelligence instantiated as a virtual network function or network device, the community communicating with the mobile aggregation device to receive data from the at least one device, and the artificial intelligence being configured to assess the event based on the data obtained by the mobile aggregation device.

Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, assembling an extended reality (XR) immersive experience for a user, determining a user experience level for the user, adjusting an immersion detail level for the XR immersive experience according to the user experience level, and communicating data defining the XR immersive experience to XR equipment of the user. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method, including: receiving, by a processing system including a processor, a request to play content; querying, by the processing system, for matches between the content and a user library; receiving, by the processing system, recommendations for alternate content of the user library and associated cue points in the content; and presenting, by the processing system, portions of the content and presenting other portions of the content replaced with the alternate content at the associated cue points. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example distinguishing a first user from a second user of a group of users based on distinguishable user attributes among the group of users. A first AR overlay is provided to equipment of the first user, and the first AR overlay is modified according to the distinguishable user attributes to obtain a second AR overlay that differs from the first AR overlay. A notification is provided to the second AR overlay, wherein a live event is observable by the equipment of the first user using the first AR overlay and by equipment of the second user using the second AR overlay. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Abstract: An example method performed by a processing system includes receiving a request from a first user to render an extended reality environment, wherein the request includes a definition of a first policy that governs user behavior within the extended reality environment, rendering the extended reality environment by presenting content contributed by at least one user in the extended reality environment, monitoring the extended reality environment to ensure that the rendering results in a compliance of the extended reality environment with the first policy, detecting that a portion of the content contributed by at least one other user of the extended reality environment results in the extended reality environment failing to comply with the first policy, and modifying a presentation of the portion of content in the extended reality environment in response to the detecting, wherein the modifying results in the compliance of the extended reality environment with the first policy.

Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method, including: receiving, by a processing system including a processor, a request to play content; querying, by the processing system, for matches between the content and a user library; receiving, by the processing system, recommendations for alternate content of the user library and associated cue points in the content; and presenting, by the processing system, portions of the content and presenting other portions of the content replaced with the alternate content at the associated cue points. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, assembling an extended reality (XR) immersive experience for a user, determining a user experience level for the user, adjusting an immersion detail level for the XR immersive experience according to the user experience level, and communicating data defining the XR immersive experience to XR equipment of the user. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Abstract: A system includes a wireless network and a software defined network overlaid over the wireless network. The software defined network includes at least one UAV having a software defined network device and a bridging radio component. The system includes a communication component in communication with the bridging radio component and a controller connected to the software defined network that makes routing decisions and communicates the routing decisions to the software defined network device.

Abstract: An example method performed by a processing system includes retrieving a digital model of a media element from a database storing a plurality of media elements, wherein the media element is to be inserted into a scene of an audiovisual media, rendering the media element in the scene of the audiovisual media, based on the digital model of the media element and on metadata associated with the digital model to produce a rendered media element, wherein the metadata describes a characteristic of the media element and a limit on the characteristic, and inserting the rendered media element into the scene of the audiovisual media.

Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example a machine-readable medium that includes executable instructions that, when executed by a processing system including a processor, facilitate performance of operations, where the operations can include determining a level of experience that each of two or more users have with an AR event, identifying a primary user of the two or more users based on the level of experience, receiving an instruction from the primary user to modify an AR overlay for a user of the two or more users, and modifying the AR overlay based on the instruction. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Abstract: In one example, the present disclosure improves simulations based on the use of digital twins using social automatons. In one example, a method performed by a processing system including at least one processor includes constructing a digital twin of a physical environment, constructing a social automaton, wherein the social automaton comprises a virtual representation of an individual that is programmed to exhibit behaviors and characteristics of the individual, and inserting the social automaton into the digital twin to create an extended reality media in which interactions of the social automaton with the digital twin simulate interactions of the individual with the physical environment.

Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device that has 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 media content from user equipment, wherein the media content comprises a sample of an existing work used to modify an original work; analyzing the media content using machine learning to determine a plurality of composition parameters that characterize aspects of the media content; recording the plurality of composition parameters determined, including an identification of composition parameters in the plurality of composition parameters attributable to the existing work, and an identification of composition parameters attributable to the original work, in a blockchain ledger; searching for the composition parameters in the blockchain ledger for one or more works having similar composition parameters; and reporting any works found during th

Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device that includes a processing system having a processor and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations, where the operations include determining parameters for adapting audio in the content to the device, wherein the device renders the content, and wherein the parameters are based on semantic metadata embedded in the content, adapting the audio in the content based on the parameters, and rendering the content, as adapted by the parameters, to represent a semantic in the semantic metadata. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Abstract: A traffic management system that manages policy agreements between operators and visual indicator devices receives first sensor data from a physical environment. The traffic management system computationally processes the first sensor data to identify a first visual indication in the sensor data and determines that the first visual indication is associated with first policy agreement. The traffic management system then determines, based on the first sensor data, that a first visual indicator system that provided the first visual indication is violating a first policy included in the first policy agreement and, in response, provides a policy violation notification that the first visual indicator system is violating the first policy.