Combined Circuit Switching And Packet Switching Patents (Class 370/352)
  • Patent number: 12354576
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for configuring a learning model for music generation and the corresponding learning model. The method includes training a masked autoencoder with training data comprising a combination of a reconstruction loss over time and frequency domains and a patch-based adversarial objective operating at different resolutions. An omnidirectional latent diffusion model is trained based on music data represented in a latent space to obtain a pretrained diffusion model. The pretrained diffusion model is fine-tuned based on text-guided music generation, bidirectional music in-painting, and unidirectional music continuation. The method enables high-fidelity music generation conditioned on text or music representations while maintaining computational efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: Futureverse IP Limited
    Inventors: Yijun Wang, Yao Yao, Peike Li, Boyu Chen, David McDonald, Nicolas Fourrier, Erin Zink, Aaron McDonald, Yilun Wang
  • Patent number: 12348464
    Abstract: An assistance integrator provides a front-end interface to an enterprise's backend services available to customers. The assistance integrator translates between automated chat conversations with the customers that engage the enterprise over messaging platforms for initiating actions with the backend services during those conversations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: NCR Voyix Corporation
    Inventors: Yehoshua Zvi Licht, Joseph Arnold White
  • Patent number: 12349093
    Abstract: A timing offset parameter update method, a device, and a system are provided, which relate to the field of communication technologies, to help reduce signaling overhead generated when a network device updates a value of a timing offset parameter. The method includes: a terminal device obtains first information that includes a first reference value and first indication information, wherein the first indication information indicates an update rule of a timing offset parameter, and the first reference value is an initial value of the timing offset parameter. The terminal device updates a value of the timing offset parameter based on the first information and a timing offset variation, to obtain an updated value of the timing offset parameter, wherein an absolute value of the timing offset variation is equal to an absolute value of a difference between any two consecutively updated values of the timing offset parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiaolu Wang, Hejia Luo, Rong Li, Jun Wang
  • Patent number: 12348915
    Abstract: A first computing device may receive an indication of user input that is at least a part of a conversation between a user and a first assistant executing at the first computing device. The first assistant and/or an assistant executing at a digital assistant system may determine whether to handoff the conversation from the first assistant executing at the first computing device to a second assistant executing at a second computing device. In response to determining to handoff the conversation to the second assistant executing at the second computing device, the first assistant and/or the assistant executing at the digital assistant system may send to the second computing device a request to handoff the conversation which includes at least an indication of the conversation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Andrea Terwisscha van Scheltinga, Zaheed Sabur, Michael Reutov, Pratik Gilda
  • Patent number: 12341621
    Abstract: A conference room device located in a conference room uses a conference room microphone to capture audio for one or more in-person conference participants located in the conference room during a conference. During the conference, audio is sampled from the microphone used by the conference room device and from microphones of one or more user devices determined to be located in the conference room. Based on a score calculated for the audio sampled from a user device being higher than a score calculated for audio sampled from the conference room device, the microphone of the user device is selected for audio capture for one or more of the in-person conference participants. The audio is output through conferencing software to which the conference room device is connected via a user interface tile for the conference room without displaying a new user interface tile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: Zoom Communications, Inc.
    Inventor: Chi-chian Yu
  • Patent number: 12341830
    Abstract: Various arrangements for providing authenticated caller information for voicemail are presented herein. A terminating telephony service provider system can receive a request to connect a telephone call, the request comprising a session initiation protocol (SIP) identity header. The terminating telephony service provider system can perform a verification based on the SIP identity header. A voicemail may be created based on audio received from the calling party via the telephone call. SIP header information can be stored and mapped to the voicemail. The terminating telephony service provider system can then output, to a called party user equipment (UE), an indication of the voicemail with an indication of the verification based on the SIP identity header.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: DISH Wireless L.L.C.
    Inventors: Kate Megan Carney Landow, Nereus Lobo, Arielle Smith, Allyson Lotz, Bin Xu
  • Patent number: 12328345
    Abstract: Call setup and management for internet clients is simplified by splitting negotiation of media characteristics for the call into separate negotiations with an originating device and a destination device. Based on an initiation of a call from an originating device (e.g., an originating internet client) to a destination device (e.g., a destination internet client), a first media stream may be negotiated and opened between the originating device and an access node in communication with an internet protocol multimedia system (“IMS”) or other communications network. A second media stream may be negotiated and opened between the access node and the destination device through the IMS, and this negotiation may be masked from the originating device. The access node may connect the call by connecting the first media stream and the second media stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2025
    Assignee: T-Mobile Innovations LLC
    Inventor: Mark Daniel Allen
  • Patent number: 12322301
    Abstract: Systems, methods and apparatus for multi-realm, computer-generated reality systems are disclosed. A method for managing a multi-realm, computer-generated reality includes determining one or more variances between each activity of a first participant and a corresponding baseline activity for each of a plurality of activities associated with traversal of a managed reality system during a session, and quantifying the one or more variances to obtain a performance metric. The method includes combining at least one performance metric for each activity of the first participant to obtain a session performance measurement for the first participant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: THE COMMONS XR LLC
    Inventors: Raphael Freiwirth, Mark Claude Lewison, Michelle Chiang, Nelson Thor Brickman
  • Patent number: 12323556
    Abstract: Implementations are directed to utilizing an assistant to automatically navigate an interactive voice response (IVR) tree to arrive at a target state during an assisted telephone call. The assistant can receive input to initiate the assisted telephone call, identify an entity to engage with, on behalf of the user, and during the assisted telephone call, based on the input, and identify an IVR tree stored in association with the entity. In various implementations, navigation of the IVR tree can be modified based on interaction(s) detected at a client device subsequent to initiating the assisted telephone call. In various implementations, the assisted telephone call can be initiated from a search interface, and the target state can be associated with a given search result. In various implementations, the IVR tree can be dynamic in that only a subset of candidate state(s) of the IVR tree may be available as the target state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Yuval Baror, Michael Andrew Goodman, Yoav Tzur
  • Patent number: 12316780
    Abstract: A method at a computing device within an Intelligent Transportation System (ITS), the method including: receiving a first message, the first message including at least tailoring information for a first ITS endpoint and intended journey details for the first ITS endpoint; storing all or a subset of data from the first message; obtaining a full certificate revocation list; creating a tailored certificate revocation list based on data in the first message and the full certificate revocation list, the tailored certificate revocation list containing certificates or identifiers of certificates for ITS endpoints that may be encountered by the first ITS endpoint when navigating a route provided in the intended journey details; and providing the tailored certificate revocation list to the first ITS endpoint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: Malikie Innovations Limited
    Inventors: Nicholas James Russell, Jonathon Brookfield, Stephen John Barrett
  • Patent number: 12294672
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for automatically generating enhanced caller identification data are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of receiving telephone call placement data that indicates the placement of a telephone call from a calling party to a called party. The actions further include receiving caller identification data. The actions further include accessing first telephone call data that reflects characteristics of telephone calls placed and received by the calling party. The actions further include based on the first telephone call data and the identity of the calling party, determining additional data to combine with the caller identification data. The actions further include generating enhanced caller identification data by combining the additional data with the caller identification data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Derrick Ives, Ovidiu Serban, Adriana Padilla, Samantha Klemm, Vanda Oliveira
  • Patent number: 12294930
    Abstract: Optimal determination of wireless network pathway configurations may be provided. A computing device may detect, at a first network Access Point (AP), inference on a channel with a second AP. Then, the computing device can check availability of a redundant radio at the second AP. Based on the availability, the computing device can establish a new radio link with the redundant radio at the second AP and reroute data traffic over the new radio link to the second AP. After establishing the new radio link, the computing device can then sever the channel with the second AP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Inventors: Gautam D. Bhanage, Vishal Satyendra Desai, Ardalan Alizadeh, Khashayar Mirfakhraei
  • Patent number: 12278923
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the disclosure are directed to customized control, for example, including customized communication lists, for data communications systems using high-level programming. According to a specific example, a data communications server is configured to interface with a remotely-situated client entity using a first programming language. The data communications server includes a communication control engine that is configured to provide a private branch exchange (PBX) or PBX functions from a Cloud-based service platform for the client entity. The communication control engine is to identify client-specific sets of control data derived from instructions written in a second programming language that is compatible with the first programming language, and to control communication routing by determining whether and/or how to route incoming data communications in response to the client-specific sets of control data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: 8x8, Inc.
    Inventor: Zhishen Liu
  • Patent number: 12278749
    Abstract: A method is described for measuring a communication latency between a first device with a first local clock and a second device with a second local clock, the devices interconnected for digital communication to a network, comprising sending an upstream communication and a downstream communication between the devices, and measuring using said local clocks an upstream send time (?1), an upstream receive time (?2), a downstream send time (?3) and a downstream receive time (?4); calculating a first measured delay (y1) as ?2-?1 and calculating a second measured delay (y2) as ?4-?3; providing said measured delays (y1, y2) to a recursive filter function arranged to estimate a first latency (d1) and a second latency (d2) based on said measured delays (y1, y2) and on values for the first and second latencies (d1, d2) previously estimated by said recursive filter function, and iterating. The invention also relates to a system and computer software product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Anders Bergsten, Andreas Johansson
  • Patent number: 12277022
    Abstract: A method for adaptively adjusting state transition time in a Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) Express (PCIe) system and associated apparatus such as a root complex (RC) device and an endpoint device are provided. The method may include: toggling a clock request signal on a signal path coupled between the RC device and the endpoint device based on a request from the RC device or on a request from the endpoint device, wherein when the clock request signal toggles, the endpoint device transits from a first state to a second state; and toggling a reference clock signal from the RC device at a timing determined according to a training parameter among at least one predetermined parameter which is set dependent on at least one of the factors: a transition time, a restoration delay, a latency tolerance report (LTR) and a bias state, after the clock request signal toggles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: MEDIATEK INC.
    Inventor: Sheng-Ya Tung
  • Patent number: 12277384
    Abstract: The presently disclosed embodiments may include a computer readable medium including instructions that when executed by one or more processing devices cause the one or more processing devices to perform a method. The method may include initiating a writing assistant application in response to input received from a user; receiving a first user input, wherein the first user input includes a collection of two or more words that convey at least one idea; automatically constructing, using one or more trained models providing a natural language generation function, a first complete sentence option that expresses the at least one idea; causing the first complete sentence option to be shown to the user via the display; receiving a second user input, and, in response to the received second input; and causing a second complete sentence option, different from the first complete sentence option, to be shown on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: AI21 LABS
    Inventors: Barak Peleg, Dan Padnos, Amnon Morag, Gilad Lumbroso, Yoav Shoham, Ori Goshen, Barak Lenz, Or Dagan
  • Patent number: 12278927
    Abstract: A device, system and method for transferring calls to public-safety answering points is provided. A call routing devices receives, from a plurality of public-safety answering points (PSAPs), status data indicating respective states of the plurality of PSAPs. The call routing device receives a call to be routed to a first PSAP of the plurality of PSAPs. The call routing device generates a list of other PSAPs, of the plurality of PSAPs, prioritized according to the status data. The call routing device routes the call to the first PSAP, the call routed with the list. The call routing device receives, from the first PSAP, an indication to transfer the call to a second PSAP selected from the list. The call routing device transfers the call to the second PSAP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventor: Rafal Kaminski
  • Patent number: 12273387
    Abstract: A system is provided that includes one or more computing servers and a processing circuit for analyzing data transactions of the computing servers. Each of the computing servers is configured to provide respective services to remote users. The processing circuit is configured to analyze data transactions of at least one of the computing servers, which is associated with a user account. A security policy of the user account includes conditions that are indicative of unauthorized access when the conditions are satisfied by various characteristics of the analyzed data transactions. The processing circuit is configured to determine a threat level as function of the characteristics of the data transactions and the conditions of the security policy. In response to the threat level exceeding a threshold level indicated in the security policy of the user account, the processing circuit performs an action for the user account that is associated with the threshold level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: 8x8, Inc.
    Inventors: Bryan Martin, Zhishen Liu, Qing Zhao
  • Patent number: 12271900
    Abstract: Expedited E-Commerce Tokenization alleviates the above mentioned concerns associated with cards for merchants as well as PSPs using tokens by establishing E-Commerce browser standards around tokenization for merchants and PSPs through a standard manner of requesting customer data in an encrypted manner following a standard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: VISA INTERNATIONAL SERVICE ASSOCIATION
    Inventors: Aparna Krishnan Girish, Parveen Bansal
  • Patent number: 12273951
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and apparatus for determining active time of a scheduled carrier, and a communication device and a storage medium. The method includes: determining, by a communication device, in a cross-carrier scheduling scenario, whether a current moment is the active time of the scheduled carrier of a terminal according to a first discontinuous reception (DRX) group to which a scheduling carrier of the terminal belongs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yanhua Li
  • Patent number: 12273259
    Abstract: A communication system has a first communication unit and at least one second communication unit. A method for operating the communication system is particularly powerful and at the same time comparably simple to implement. Logical communication connections between the first communication unit and the at least one second communication unit are used for data transmission. At least one keep-alive message, which contains at least one piece of information in respect of a plurality of the logical communication connections used for the data transmission, is transmitted between the first communication unit and the at least one second communication unit via one additional logical communication connection. There is also described a corresponding communication system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Siemens Mobility GmbH
    Inventor: Waldemar Harsch
  • Patent number: 12267223
    Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for the management of heartbeat notifications, for instance, in a service based management architecture are provided. One method may include receiving, from a first entity, information comprising one or more attributes relating to management of an emission of heartbeat notifications at a second entity. The method may also include associating, by the second entity, the attributes with a subscription, associating the attributes with a communication channel between the second entity and a third entity relating to the subscription, and starting the emission of the heartbeat notifications according to the information received by the second entity from the first entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Olaf Pollakowski, Jing Ping, Anatoly Andrianov
  • Patent number: 12265385
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods are described for controlling, and communicating with, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) over a millimeter wave (mmWave) communication network established between a base station and the UAVs. A communication system may include one or more unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The communication system may further include one or more base stations including millimeter wave (mmWave) antennas configured to generate control signals to the one or more UAVs over an mmWave communication network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignees: Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC, North Carolina State University
    Inventors: Arupjyoti Bhuyan, Ismail Guvenc, Huaiyu Dai
  • Patent number: 12261819
    Abstract: A network device providing access to an external device by configuring the network device to control the flow of traffic from the external device to the network device. The flow control may include retrieving an IP address or port number from a bridged device and applying it to a stack stored in the memory of the network device so that the bridged device and network device share the same IP address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Lantronix, Inc.
    Inventor: Steve Cook
  • Patent number: 12250342
    Abstract: A call management system includes a control module to be operated via any combination of software and hardware; the control module to perform the steps of determine when a call is taking place between one or more users and providing one or more options to the one or more users for the management of the call to allow the users to communicate with multiple callers simultaneously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Inventors: Erik Gall, Ryan Herrman, Kaden Gall, Michelle Herrman
  • Patent number: 12249339
    Abstract: A signal processing method and device includes obtaining spectral coefficients of a current frame of an audio signal, in which N sub-bands of the current frame comprises at least one of the spectral coefficients. A total energy of M successive sub-bands of the N sub-bands, a total energy of K successive sub-bands of the N sub-bands, and an energy of a first sub-band are obtained to determine whether to modify original envelope values of the M sub-bands. When the original envelope values of the M sub-bands are modified, encoding bits are allocated to each of the N sub-bands according to the modified envelope values of the M sub-bands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bin Wang, Lei Miao, Zexin Liu
  • Patent number: 12244774
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes providing end-to-end call identity validation of a forwarded call. Identity information associated with a received call invite may be temporarily stored and reused for the forwarded call when a determination is made that the called party is likely to forward the call. If the inbound call is diverted (forwarded) by the called device, a call invite comprising an indication that the invite has been diverted (forwarded) by the called device may be received. The system may match data associated with the diverted call invite with the stored identity information. In some examples, the SHAKEN identity header and SHAKEN token is stored and may be attached to the diverted call invite. DIV authentication may then be performed, and the diverted call invite comprising SHAKEN and DIV identity headers may be provided to the forward-to destination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC
    Inventor: Joseph Scivicque
  • Patent number: 12235921
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method is described. The method includes a computing system receiving a first voice input from a user for generating a bookmark. Responsive to receiving the voice input, the computing system obtains a resource identifier associated with a resource page. The method includes the computing system storing the resource identifier as a bookmark in a bookmark index that is accessible in response to a request from a user device. The method further includes the computing system using the resource identifier, stored as the bookmark, to access the resource page. The computing system uses the resource identifier to access the resource page based on the request from the user device. The request is generated by the user device in response to the user device receiving a second voice input from the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Mugurel Ionut Andreica, Gokhan H. Bakir, Tak Keung Cheng, Marcin M. Nowak-Przygodzki
  • Patent number: 12238586
    Abstract: A method performed by a WTRU may comprise determining application layer information and receiving QoS policy configuration information. A QoS mechanism may be determined based on the application layer information and the received QoS policy configuration information. A QoS value applicable to the determined QoS mechanism may then be determined for a data packet. Subsequently, the determined QoS value may be transmitted to another WTRU over a PC5 interface, with or without the data packet. The QoS mechanism may be determined as one of a PPPP mechanism or a QFI mechanism. The QoS policy configuration information may be received via a gNB. In an embodiment, the application layer information may include an application identifier, a PSID or an ITS-AID. The QoS policy configuration information may indicate a mapping of V2X application IDs to respective QoS mechanisms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Saad Ahmad, Khalid Anwar
  • Patent number: 12231517
    Abstract: Various embodiments are directed to an improved group-based communication apparatus that is configured to efficiently manage draft messaging communications in a group-based communication system. The group-based communication apparatus is configured to synchronize draft messaging communications, including creating, updating, deleting, and posting of such draft messaging communications, across multiple client devices and with a group-based communication repository. Utilizing draft message metadata associated with the draft messaging communications, the group-based communication apparatus is also configured to implement validation rules and conflict resolution procedures associated with draft messaging communications. Additionally, the group-based communication apparatus is configured to render a draft list icon or other visual indicia to a group-based communication interface to inform a user that there is a draft messaging communication associated with one or more of the group-based communication channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Madeline Shortt, Ryan Greenberg
  • Patent number: 12231883
    Abstract: Provided are a network access method, a terminal, and a network side network element. The network access method comprises: obtaining non-public communication network related certificate information; according to the non-public communication network related certificate information, executing an operation of accessing a first network, the first network being a network supporting a non-public communication service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xiaowan Ke
  • Patent number: 12231966
    Abstract: A target RAN node (3) receives, from a core network (5), a message requesting a handover of a radio terminal (1) from a bearer-based network to a bearer-less network. This handover request message includes flow information related to at least one session to be established in the bearer-less network in order to transfer at least one packet flow of the radio terminal (1). The target RAN node (3) transmits, to the core network (5), a handover acknowledge response message containing a transparent container that includes a radio resource configuration information derived from the flow information and is to be forwarded to a source RAN node associated (2) through the core network (5). It is thus, for example, possible to appropriately configuring an AS layer of a target RAT in an inter-RAT handover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hisashi Futaki, Sadafuku Hayashi
  • Patent number: 12225530
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed herein that relate to actions performed by a Radio Access Network (RAN) when redundancy is not available. In this regard, embodiments of a method performed by a RAN node are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method performed by a RAN node for RAN action when redundancy is not available comprises receiving, from a core network node, a request for a set of User Plane (UP) resources in the RAN. The method further comprises determining whether the request for the set of UP resources in the RAN can be met and sending, to the core network node, a response to the request for the set of UP resources that is based on whether the request for the set of UP resources in the RAN can be met.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: György Miklós, Nianshan Shi, Paul Schliwa-Bertling
  • Patent number: 12219437
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for inter-network messaging among private and public 5G networks. For instance, a first server on a public 5G mobile network can receive a first message directed to a first wireless device associated with a first network identity. The first server can determine, based on the first network identity, that the first wireless device is associated with a second network identity, wherein the second network identity is used to identify the first wireless device on a private 5G mobile network. The first server can send a copy of the first message to a second server on the private 5G mobile network for transmission to the first wireless device through the private 5G mobile network based on the second network identity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Sri Gundavelli, Indermeet Singh Gandhi, Pradeep Kumar Kathail, Louis Gwyn Samuel
  • Patent number: 12219340
    Abstract: Examples of the disclosure relate to apparatus, methods and computer programs. The apparatus including circuitry configured for obtaining a spatial audio signal where the spatial audio signal includes at least one participant audio object and at least one private audio object wherein the private audio object is associated with a participant which generated the participant audio object. The apparatus also includes circuitry configured for causing the participant audio object to be rendered in a first spatial location and causing the private audio object to be rendered in a second spatial location so that the rendering of the private audio object is less prominent than the rendering of the participant audio object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Sujeet Shyamsundar Mate, Arto Lehtiniemi, Miikka Tapani Vilermo, Mikko-Ville Ilari Laitinen
  • Patent number: 12218970
    Abstract: Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing web-based monitoring and detection of fraudulent or unauthorized use of voice calling service. In various embodiments, a computing system might receive, from a user device associated with an originating party, a request to initiate a call session with a destination party, the request comprising user information associated with the originating party and a destination number associated with the destination party; might query a database with session data (including user information) to access permission data and configuration data; and might configure fraud logic using received configuration data from the database. The computing system might analyze the session data and permission data using the configured fraud logic to determine whether the originating party is permitted to establish the requested call session with the destination party; if so, might initiate one or more first actions; and, if not, might initiate one or more second actions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Andrew J. Broadworth, Matthew McCarthy
  • Patent number: 12218985
    Abstract: Provided in one embodiment of the present specification is a method for user equipment (UE) for an Internet protocol multimedia subsystem (IMS) voice session. The method can comprise the steps of: establishing an EMS voice session by using a non 3GPP interworking function (N3IWF) or an enhanced packet data gateway (ePDG) through non-3rd generation partnership project (3GPP) access; determining that voice is not supported on a current NG-RAN on the basis of that the UE must moves the IMS voice session to a 3GPP access; and handing over a protocol data unit (PDU) session for the IMS voice session of the non-3GPP access to an evolved packet core (EPC) of the 3GPP access on the basis of the determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Myungjune Youn, Sehee Lee, Sungduck Chun, Hyunsook Kim, Laeyoung Kim, Sangmin Park
  • Patent number: 12212435
    Abstract: A mobile application gateway for connecting devices on a cellular network with individual networks, such as enterprise voice and data networks and/or residential networks. The effects of the present invention are far reaching in terms of transferring effective call control from the cellular network into the control of the individual network such as the enterprise, and enabling new business models for the purchase of cellular service from a public cellular carrier by an enterprise. The invention may consist of a primarily of core network and services components based on the IMS network architecture, and is backward compatible to support legacy systems in place in current telecom and data networks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: TANGO NETWORKS, INC.
    Inventors: Andrew Silver, Lathan Lewis, Patricia Landgren, Glen Schmid
  • Patent number: 12212971
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes providing an attestation level to a received communication. The attestation level may be used to communicate a level of security to a network or a called party that receives the communication. The attestation level associated with the communication may indicate to a destination network and/or recipient that the phone number associated with the communication is secure and/or the telephone number has not been spoofed. Determining the attestation level comprises comparing information associated with the communication with stored information and assigning a code based on the comparison. The code may be translated to a tag value that is used to direct the communication to a signing server for attesting the communication at the determined attestation level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Richard D. Moore, Daniel W. Peele, Matthew C. Hess
  • Patent number: 12206819
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are disclosed for implementing mobile terminating call. According to an embodiment, a subscriber management node obtains, from a mobility management node, an indication that indicates whether a packet switching (PS) connection is currently active for a terminal device. The subscriber management node receives, from a server, a first query about whether a PS access domain is to be used for a terminating call to the terminal device. The subscriber management node sends a response to the server based on the obtained indication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolagget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Lei Xia, Zhiwei Qu, Ralf Keller, Peter Hedman, Stefan Rommer
  • Patent number: 12207036
    Abstract: A wireless speaker and microphone device paired with a plurality of host information handling systems comprising a microphone and a speaker, a wireless speaker and microphone device radio system establishing a first wireless link with a first host information handling system and establishing a second wireless link with a second host information handling system where the wireless speaker and microphone device receives a first active audio data stream on the first wireless link. The microcontroller integrated circuit to receives a signal on the second wireless link indicating an incoming available second audio data stream and provides an indication of the incoming available second audio data stream to a user. An input/output device receives an acceptance from the user and the microcontroller integrated circuit switches the speaker and the microphone to the second wireless link and sends a signal to activate the second audio data stream on the second wireless link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: DELL PRODUCTS LP
    Inventors: Peng Lip Goh, Deeder M. Aurongzeb, Sok Hui Khoo
  • Patent number: 12200040
    Abstract: The nodes of a squad of nodes include a coordinating node and a set of worker nodes for sharing computational resources to perform resource intensive tasks. A requesting worker node may send work requests to the coordinating node of a squad of nodes. In response to a work request, the requesting worker node receives from the coordinating node a list of worker nodes to assign one or more tasks associated with the work request. The list of worker nodes is selected based on a report of resources and current utilization of each node within the squad. Upon receiving the list of workers, the requesting worker node divides the tasks associated with the work request into multiple buckets, assigns each bucket to a worker node form the list of worker nodes, and sends a request to process tasks from each of the buckets to the corresponding worker node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: TurbineOne, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Warren Amacker, Ian Jay Kalin
  • Patent number: 12200166
    Abstract: One disclosed system comprises a server; a receiver device with a receiver identifier; a dialer device with a dialer identifier; a dialer programmed to initiate a voice call, over a voice channel, with the receiver device using the receiver identifier; a database; and a data channel connecting the dialer device, the receiver device, and the server. The database stores interaction data in association with both the receiver identifier and the dialer identifier. The system is programmed to: obtain a voice sample from the voice call; process the voice sample to obtain a search cue; obtain one or more interaction data from the database using the search cue; obtain a response data from the one or more interaction data; and surface, during the voice call, the response data to one of the dialer device and the receiver device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Inventors: Trysit Nitidharmatut, Timothy Maslyn, Vira Intanate
  • Patent number: 12191978
    Abstract: A system (1000) is disclosed including a resource allocation optimization (RAO) platform (1002) for optimizing the allocation of resources in network (1004) for delivery of assets to user equipment devices (UEDs) (1012). The RAO platform (1002) determines probabilities that certain asset delivery opportunities (ADOs) will occur within a selected time window and uses these probabilities together with information concerning values of asset delivery to determine an optimal use of asset deliveries. In this regard, the RAO platform (1004) received historical data from repository (1014) that facilitates calculation of probabilities that ADOs will occur. Such information may be compiled based on asset delivery records for similar network environments in the recent past or over time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: INVIDI Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Samira Sadeghi, Ivan Mizera, David Ballantyne, Daniel C. Wilson
  • Patent number: 12193087
    Abstract: A wireless communication device establishes voice communication between a supported user and a selected remote device supporting another user via a point-to-point wireless ad hoc network link. The device selects a particular remote device, establishes an ad hoc network link with the selected remote device, and communicates voice communication signals with the selected remote device. Selection can be based upon a user interaction with the device which specifies the particular remote device. The user interaction can include interaction with a graphical representation of the particular remote device presented in a graphical user interface. The user interaction can include an audio command received via an audio interface of the device. The device can include one or more headset devices, including a pair of headset devices which can be switched between providing audio signals to a single user to supporting communication between separate users via an ad hoc network link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Esge B. Andersen, Cedrik Bacon
  • Patent number: 12192336
    Abstract: A secure communications and configuration system for digital currency mining systems provides two levels of digital signatures for communications between digital currency mining systems and a central management server where general communications are signed using software generated keys and sensitive communications are signed using an on-board encryption chip. The central management server verifies an initial registration message from a digital currency mining system and send initial configuration data to the digital currency mining system automatically.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Auradine, Inc.
    Inventors: Lei Chang, Robert Ashley, Liang Li
  • Patent number: 12193080
    Abstract: A method of handing over a mobile communication device from a first access network to a second access network (in one implementation) is as follows. In response to a protocol data unit session update request, a first computing device (e.g., an AMF) receives an identifier of a protocol data unit session and network slice information regarding a network slice to be used by the mobile communication device to communicate on the second access network using the protocol data unit session. The first computing device uses the network slice information to select a network slice instance and to select a second computing device (e.g., another AMF) within the network slice instance. The first computing device transmits, to the second computing device, a relocation request that includes the network slice information and the identifier of the protocol data unit session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Jinguo Zhu, Zhendong Li
  • Patent number: 12184746
    Abstract: A customer of a multi-channel message exchange system provides criteria for selecting a service provider using an application programming interface (API). The multi-channel message exchange system selects a service provider that is best suited to deliver each individual message, via a network, for the customer. The message exchange system selects a service provider based on customer criteria, service provider data structures, and other information. The criteria may include a maximum value, a minimum quality score, a maximum latency, or any suitable combination thereof. The data structures may include geographic jurisdictions in which the service provider provides network-based message delivery, channels through which the service provider is willing to deliver messages, or any suitable combination thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Twilio Inc.
    Inventors: Chloe Chen, Peter Michael Janovsky
  • Patent number: 12177661
    Abstract: The present application relates to the technical field of communication technology, and provides a method and a device for verifying a user identification card, an electronic device and a storage medium. The method includes: receiving a sharing request of the user identification card sent by a first communication device; sending a query request to at least one second communication device according to the sharing request of the user identification card; receiving the first query information sent by the second communication device; and comparing the first query information with the sharing information of the user identification card and/or preset condition information, to obtain a verification result of the user identification card. The method realizes that the automatic verification of the authenticity of the sharing information of the user identification card and the validity of the user identification card.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: SHENZHEN UCLOUDLINK NEW TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Liang Wang, Enpeng Bai, Zhihui Gong
  • Patent number: 12177200
    Abstract: The disclosure describes a scalable, risk-based authentication system including a plurality of fraud monitoring engines configured to: analyze user data and organization data, and generate a set of risk factors based on the user data and the enterprise data; a risk aggregator in communication with the plurality of fraud monitoring engines configured to: receive the set of risk factors, and transform the set of risk factors into risk indicators; and an authentication engine configured to: receive the risk indicators from the risk aggregator, and generate an authentication plan for a requested activity based on the risk indicators and the requested activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: Michael W. Lester, Debra Randall Casillas, Richard A. Davey, Michael Frank Morris, Maland Keith Mortensen, John David Row, Thomas Bret Buckingham, Tammy Sanclemente