AT&T Patents
Application number: 20150334542
Abstract: An apparatus for forwarding data sent to a wireless device having a first address to a second address. The apparatus includes a server in communication with a wireless network and an external network. The server includes a processor. The processor includes a data forwarding module for forwarding the data to the second address via the external network when the wireless device is not in communication with the wireless network.
Type:
Application
Filed:
November 12, 2013
Issued:
November 19, 2015
Assignee:
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
Inventor:
Royce D. Jordan, JR.
Application number: 20150332665
Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage devices for generating speech using a presentation style specific to a user, and in particular the user's social group. Systems configured according to this disclosure can then use the resulting, personalized, text and/or speech in a spoken dialogue or presentation system to communicate with the user. For example, a system practicing the disclosed method can receive speech from a user, identify the user, and respond to the received speech by applying a personalized natural language generation model. The personalized natural language generation model provides communications which can be specific to the identified user.
Type:
Application
Filed:
May 13, 2014
Issued:
November 19, 2015
Assignee:
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
Inventors:
Taniya MISHRA, Alistair D. CONKIE, Svetlana STOYANCHEV
Application number: 20150332123
Abstract: A particular method includes receiving a set of images, where each image of the set of images is related to a common scene. The method also includes determining a first subset of pixels of a first image of the set, where the first subset of pixels corresponds to a second subset of pixels of a second image of the set.
Type:
Application
Filed:
May 14, 2014
Issued:
November 19, 2015
Assignee:
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
Inventors:
Amy Ruth Reibman, Zhu Liu, Lee Begeja, Bernard S. Renger, David Crawford Gibbon, Behzad Shahraray, Raghuraman Gopalan, Eric Zavesky
Application number: 20150333986
Abstract: A mechanism is provided for predicting video engagement from network measurements for a user device connected to a wireless network. Wireless network measurements are retrieved from a wireless network device in the wireless network. The wireless network measurements are related to the user device of a user. It is determined that the user device is engaged in a video streaming session. A computer classifies the video streaming session as one of a plurality of classes, in which the plurality of classes predict an outcome of the video streaming session for the user device.
Type:
Application
Filed:
May 15, 2014
Issued:
November 19, 2015
Assignee:
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
Inventors:
Jeffrey Pang, Jeffrey Erman, Lusheng Ji, Jia Wang
Application number: 20150334229
Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods are disclosed which aggregate presence detections, and use the diversity of presence detections to resolve presence ambiguities and increase the correctness of information. Presence confidence levels and reliability values increase the effectiveness of services based on presence. A variety of methods enable presence detection and reporting. Each of these methods has advantages and disadvantages. The limitations of each of the individual methods are overcome with exemplary embodiments of the subject disclosure.
Type:
Application
Filed:
July 27, 2015
Issued:
November 19, 2015
Assignee:
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
Inventors:
Randolph Robert Wohlert, Inderpreet Singh Ahluwalia
Patent number: 9189076
Abstract: A method or apparatus for controlling a media device using gestures may include, for example, modifying media content to generate first updated media content according to a comparison of first information descriptive of a first environment of the source device to second information descriptive of a second environment of the recipient device, capturing images of a gesture, identifying a command from the gesture, and modifying the first updated media content to generate second updated media content according to the command. Other embodiments are disclosed.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 12, 2014
Issued:
November 17, 2015
Assignee:
AT&T Intellectual Property I, LP
Inventors:
Andrea Basso, Tara Hines, Aleksey Ivanov, Jeffrey Mikan, Nadia Morris
Patent number: 9188668
Abstract: Methods, systems, and products determine electromagnetic reflective characteristics of ambient environments. A wireless communications device sends a cellular impulse and receives reflections of the cellular impulse. The cellular impulse and the reflections of the cellular impulse may be compared to determine the electromagnetic reflective characteristics of an ambient environment.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 27, 2012
Issued:
November 17, 2015
Assignee:
AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
Inventors:
Robert Raymond Miller, Kevin A. Li, Troy C. Meuninck, James H. Pratt, Horst J. Schroeter, Behzad Shahraray
Patent number: 9189759
Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media provide for providing contact information at turf level. According to embodiments, a method for providing contact information at turf level is provided. According to the method, a selected turf from a plurality of turfs displayed in a spreadsheet-based graphical user interface (GUI) is received. In response to receiving the selected turf, contact information for field supervisors associated with disciplines of the selected turf is displayed.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 14, 2012
Issued:
November 17, 2015
Assignee:
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
Inventors:
Robert Ingman, Robert Cole, Richard Miller
Patent number: 9191120
Abstract: A method and system for simultaneous mitigation of optical impairment from both equalizer-phase noise interaction (EPNI) and fiber nonlinear effects (FNE) is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method is directed to simultaneous mitigation of optical impairment from both equalizer-phase noise interaction (EPNI) and fiber nonlinear effects (FNE) using a fast-adaptive multi-tap digital filter.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 4, 2013
Issued:
November 17, 2015
Assignee:
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
Inventor:
Xiang Zhou
Patent number: 9189416
Abstract: Methods, systems, and products describe a robust solution for the dictionary problem of data structures. A hash function based on tabulation is twisted to utilize an additional xoring operation and a shift. This twisted tabulation offers strong robustness guarantees over a set of queries in both linear probing and chaining.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 11, 2014
Issued:
November 17, 2015
Assignee:
AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
Inventors:
Mikkel Thorup, Mihai Patrascu
Patent number: 9191036
Abstract: Receivers in a mobile device are configured to mitigate receiver overload and fully or nearly-fully utilize available spectrum for communication. Configuration is dictated at least in part by at least one of radio link quality or available receiver specifications, and it can be affected by the mobile device or a base station that serves the mobile device. Receiver configuration includes various spectrally asymmetric receivers that tune respective disparate portions of the available spectrum to maximize utilization thereof in the spectral regions prone to overload conditions. In severe overload conditions, a single receiver can be configured to operate in a frequency band spectrally adjacent to a sub-band that leads to overload conditions when employed for telecommunication. To improve performance, the single receiver configuration can be supplemented with at least one of transmit diversity operation, asymmetric multicarrier spreading, or downlink power boost of asymmetrical multicarrier spreading.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 30, 2014
Issued:
November 17, 2015
Assignee:
AT&T MOBILITY II LLC
Inventor:
Arthur Richard Brisebois
Patent number: 9191264
Abstract: An aspect of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving a request from a communication device to initiate a communication session in a packet-switched network, obtaining a first name authority pointer record responsive to determining that there is an undesirable operational state in the packet-switched network, wherein the first name authority pointer record comprises a commented out record, obtaining a second name authority pointer record responsive to determining that there is a desirable operation state in the packet-switched network, wherein the second name authority pointer record comprises a record, and initiating the communication session according to one of the first name authority pointer record or the second name authority pointer record. Other embodiments are disclosed.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 8, 2013
Issued:
November 17, 2015
Assignee:
AT&T Intellectual Property I, LP
Inventors:
Bernard Ku, Armstrong Soo, Lakshminarashimhan Naidu
Patent number: 9189141
Abstract: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a media processor having a controller to present a graphic user interface (GUI) for customizing an electronic programming guide (EPG), the GUI including a plurality of scrollable media channels, each media channel accompanied by an image, a description of the media channel, an option to select the media channel for inclusion in the EPG, a first button to customize the EPG according to one or more media channels selected, and a second button to request additional information about a media channel highlighted in the GUI. Other embodiments are disclosed.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 4, 2014
Issued:
November 17, 2015
Assignee:
AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, LP
Inventor:
Scott White
Patent number: 9190789
Abstract: Methods, systems, and products simplify installation of terminating plugs to cables. A wiring plug helps a user arrange individual wires on the cable to a wiring diagram of a terminating plug, such as an RJ-56 plug. The wiring plug has individual passages prearranged to the wiring diagram, such that the individual wires may simply be inserted into the correct passages. The passages are also sized in diameter and length, such that each wire may be cut to the correct length for crimping to the terminating plug.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 20, 2012
Issued:
November 17, 2015
Assignee:
AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
Inventor:
Mark Elias
Patent number: 9191502
Abstract: A recording device provides conversation recording with real-time notification between users of communication terminals engaged in a conversation. The recording device provides a recording start notification to a second communication terminal in response to receiving an initiate recording request from a first communication terminal, and initiates recording of the conversation. The recording device terminates recording of the conversation in response to receiving a terminate recording request from the first communication terminal, provides a recording stop notification to the second communication terminal, and saves the recorded conversation to a file in a file storage medium. The recording start and recording stop notifications can be either audible or electronic notifications. The first communication terminal may be muted prior to providing a notification, and un-muted subsequent to the notification. The recording device may obtain permission from the second communication terminal to record the conversation.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 31, 2010
Issued:
November 17, 2015
Assignee:
AT&T Mobility II LLC
Inventors:
John T. Hursey, Robert Z. Evora
Patent number: 9191292
Abstract: A system includes first and second cache servers a domain name server, and a route controller. The cache servers are each configured to respond to an anycast address. Additionally, the first cache server is configured to respond to a first unicast address, and the second cache server is configured to respond to a second unicast address. The router controller configured to determine wither the status of the first cache server is non-overloaded, overloaded, or offline. The route controller is further configured to instruct the domain name server to provide the second unicast address when the status is overloaded or offline, and modify routing of the anycast address to direct a content request sent to the anycast address to the second cache server when the status is offline. The domain name server is configured to receive a request from a requestor for a cache server address.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 15, 2013
Issued:
November 17, 2015
Assignee:
AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
Inventors:
Mario A. Santoro, Herani Brotman, Alan L. Glasser, James Miros, Oliver Spatscheck, Jacobus E. Van der Merwe
Patent number: 9191514
Abstract: Systems and methods for providing voice activated location information to a user are disclosed. In one embodiment, a user provides a voice-based request for directions to a desired destination through a communications device. The voice-based request includes a delivery method for the directions. The location of the user is determined, and a database is queried to determine one or more entries that match the desired destination contained in the request. Directional instructions to the matching entries are determined and provided to the user by the delivery method.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 7, 2007
Issued:
November 17, 2015
Assignee:
AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
Inventors:
Craig M. Cavanaugh, John P. Ruckart
Patent number: 9191347
Abstract: A method of routing messages may include providing a listener registry of a plurality of listeners and associated namespaces so that at least one namespace is associated with each of the plurality of listeners. A message may be received from an originating application, and the message may include a message namespace. The message may be stored in a message queue, and a determination may be made to determine if a listener from the listener registry is associated with the message namespace. If no listener from the listener registry is associated with the message namespace, the message may be stored in a parked message queue separate from the message queue. After the message has been in the parked message queue for a predetermined period of time, the message may be deleted from the parked message queue.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 23, 2014
Issued:
November 17, 2015
Assignee:
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
Inventors:
Brett Dennis Johnson, Larry Kent, Jr., Charles Frederick Hart, Matthew Campbell, Donald H. Fair, Thomas Hackbarth, Bruce Peterson
Patent number: 9191724
Abstract: A method includes receiving, at a communications gateway associated with a customer premises, multimedia content from a communications network. The method includes superimposing, via the communications gateway, a heartbeat signal on an alternating current electrical power signal associated with an electrical wiring system of the customer premises. The method includes encoding the multimedia content based on the heartbeat signal to produce encoded multimedia content at the communications gateway. The method also includes wirelessly transmitting the encoded multimedia content from the communications gateway to a device.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 5, 2014
Issued:
November 17, 2015
Assignee:
AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
Inventors:
David Harp, Benjamin Jahner, Sean Ohara
Patent number: 9191622
Abstract: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, an Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) network element can have a wireless transceiver, a wireline transceiver, and a controller. The controller can be adapted to process multimedia signals received from an upstream IPTV network element, transmit the processed multimedia signals to one or more downstream IPTV network elements, monitor communications on a wireline interface capable of accessing a fault management system (FMS), and cause the wireless access transceiver to wirelessly transmit to the FMS telemetry information collected responsive to detecting one or more faults in the wireline interface. The controller can also cause the wireline transceiver to transmit to the FMS over the wireline interface the telemetry information responsive to detecting no fault in the wireline interface that impedes communication with the FMS over the wireline interface. Other embodiments are disclosed.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 17, 2007
Issued:
November 17, 2015
Assignee:
AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, LP
Inventor:
Moshiur Rahman
Patent number: 9191624
Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes determining, at a set-top box device, positioning data associated with a location of the set-top box device. The computer-implemented method includes determining whether the set-top box device is authorized to receive media content at the location. The computer-implemented method also includes receiving the media content via a wireless transmission from a residential gateway when the set-top box device is authorized to receive the media content at the location.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 26, 2009
Issued:
November 17, 2015
Assignee:
AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
Inventors:
David Harp, Jason Godfrey, Sanjay Macwan
Patent number: 9191712
Abstract: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a server having a controller to receive a call request from a set top box that is remote from the server where the call request identifies a telephone number that is presented from video content presented by the set top box where the telephone number is detected based on a combination of image pattern recognition and speech recognition and where the telephone number is associated with a marketing entity, establish a voice communication with a first telephone device associated with the set top box, and establish the voice communication with a second telephone device associated with the telephone number and the marketing entity if the first telephone device accepts the voice communication. Other embodiments are disclosed.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 10, 2014
Issued:
November 17, 2015
Assignee:
AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, LP
Inventors:
Haifeng Bi, Xiaolian Bi
Patent number: 9191711
Abstract: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a server having a controller operable to provide media content to a gateway for presentation on a plurality of display devices without using a set top box, provide a selection of available services for presentation on the plurality of display devices, receive from the gateway a request for a service chosen from the selection of available services where the service is not a telecommunication service, provide an executable software to the gateway for implementation of the service, and generate a shipping order in response to the request, where the shipping order instructs delivery of equipment associated with the service to a building in which the gateway is located, where the equipment is detected by the gateway when the equipment is connected to a powerline of the building, and where the service is implemented using the gateway. Other embodiments are disclosed.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 15, 2010
Issued:
November 17, 2015
Assignee:
AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
Inventors:
John Alson Hicks, III, Nicholas S. Huslak
Patent number: 9191786
Abstract: The present disclosure is a method and apparatus for generating a suggested message. In one embodiment, a method for generating a suggested message includes monitoring, by an application server, a first device operated by a first user, detecting, by the application server, a triggering event relevant to the first user, and automatically generating the suggested message in response to the triggering event, where the suggested message is addressed to a second user.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 27, 2012
Issued:
November 17, 2015
Assignee:
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
Inventor:
Braxton K. Davis
Patent number: 9191809
Abstract: Propagation of a wireless signal is facilitated and brokered through a wireless network, and the signal is delivered by an appropriate method to an intended receiving wireless terminal. A single network element acts as a signal entry point and executes parallel processes to determine the location of an intended receiving wireless terminal and the registration thereof within the wireless network, the signal type, and the capabilities of the terminal. The network element then analyzes this information to determine the best method of signal propagation through the wireless network so as to ensure signal delivery to the wireless terminal or alternate delivery according to subscriber-set preferences.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 25, 2013
Issued:
November 17, 2015
Assignee:
AT&T Mobility II LLC
Inventors:
Roger Newall Mahler, Mark J. Enzmann
Patent number: 9191849
Abstract: Detection of a faulty radio oscillator is provided herein. Also provided herein is detection of faulty mobile timing measurements. Timing measurements, as observed by a mobile device, and an identification of primary scrambling codes associated with the timing measurements are captured. The primary scrambling codes match each timing measurement with a particular radio. The mobile device can also report its location information. Radios for which timing measurements have been received are paired. Based on the paired radios and an associated observed time delay derived from the timing measurements, comparisons can be made between paired radios having at least one common radio. Radios exhibiting an expected timing value can be removed from the analysis in order to isolate a radio that has a faulty radio oscillator.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 6, 2015
Issued:
November 17, 2015
Assignee:
AT&T MOBILITY II LLC
Inventors:
Jeremy Fix, Mario Kosseifi, Sheldon Kent Meredith
Patent number: 9191821
Abstract: Sharing timed fingerprint location information is disclosed. In an aspect, timed fingerprint location information can be associated with a location of a user equipment. This timed fingerprint location information can be shared with other devices. As such, with proper analysis, these other devices can employ the shared timed fingerprint location information to determine their location. In an aspect, the other devices can determine that they are located at the same location as the user equipment. However, a level of error can be inherent in the location determined from shared timed fingerprint location information. In some embodiments, this error can be compensated for.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 2, 2015
Issued:
November 17, 2015
Assignee:
AT&T MOBILITY II LLC
Inventors:
Rick Tipton, Mark Austin, Sheldon Meredith
Patent number: 9191835
Abstract: A method, computer-readable storage device and an apparatus for planning tracking areas in a wireless network are disclosed. For example, the method represents geographical neighbor relations between each pair of base stations in a first set, and represents in a third set a plurality of potential assignment options for each base station of the first set to tracking areas in a second set, represents the historical data on paging traffic among the base stations in the first set via a first parameter, and represents the historical data on tracking area update traffic among the tracking areas of the second set via a second parameter, and determines for each base station in the first set, the optimal assignment of a tracking area in the second set.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 27, 2013
Issued:
November 17, 2015
Assignee:
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
Inventors:
Sichong Guan, Farhan Mir, Raghvendra Savoor, Wei Yuan, Wenjie Zhao
Patent number: 9191795
Abstract: A method enables a portable communication device to redirect a call initiated from the portable communication device and to execute a visual interactive voice response application for interfacing with a user. The method includes screening calls initiated from the portable communication device by a communication application resident on the portable communication device, and redirecting a call initiated from the portable communication device when the screening determines that the call matches predetermined criteria. The method also includes authenticating an account corresponding to the portable communication device that initiated the call by communicating with a service provider communication network, and executing a visual interactive voice response application that visually interacts with the user of the portable communication device upon authentication of the account by the service provider communication network.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 29, 2012
Issued:
November 17, 2015
Assignee:
AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
Inventors:
Charles Langevin, Brian Nab, Eric Reed
Patent number: 9191971
Abstract: A method and system reduce interference between overlapping first and second wireless LAN cells contending for the same medium. Each cell includes a respective plurality of member stations. An inter-cell contention-free period value is assigned to a first access point station in the first cell, associated with an accessing order in the medium for member stations in the first and second cells. The access point in the first cell transmits an initial shield packet to deter other stations from contending for the medium. The access point then transmits a beacon packet containing the inter-cell contention-free period value to member stations in the second cell. A second access point in the second cell can then delay transmissions by member stations in the second cell until after the inter-cell contention-free period expires.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 14, 2014
Issued:
November 17, 2015
Assignee:
AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.
Inventor:
Mathilde Benveniste
Patent number: 9191995
Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods are disclosed to directly connect a node of a Radio Access Network (RAN) with an Internet Protocol (IP) network. The node is provided with an interface to a broadband local loop network. Access to the local loop network or last mile enables the node to communicate directly with an IP network, including an IP Multimedia System (IMS) core. The node need not access a packet-switched core network via a controller. Embodiments include a Node B with an IP interface in a UMTS system and a Base Transceiver Station (BTS) with an IP interface in a GSM system.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 1, 2013
Issued:
November 17, 2015
Assignee:
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
Inventor:
Moshiur Rahman
Patent number: 9191857
Abstract: A mobile device mobility state is included in device reporting to a radio access network for mobility event and load balancing purposes. Respective load conditions and respective coverage areas of a first set of devices of a first network and a second set of devices of a second network are analyzed. In addition, a mobility state of a mobile device, a first signal strength associated with the first set of devices, and a second signal strength associated with the second set of devices are also analyzed. The mobility state is a function of a movement pattern of the mobile device and a speed at which the mobile device is being moved. Network traffic of the mobile device is routed to a set of network devices selected from the first set of devices and the second set of devices, as a result of the analysis.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 21, 2013
Issued:
November 17, 2015
Assignees:
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Mobility II LLC
Inventors:
Zhi Cui, Arthur Richard Brisebois, Ye Chen, Hongyan Lei, Cheng P. Liu, Yonghui Tong
Patent number: 9191853
Abstract: Concepts and technologies are described herein for managing network load using device application programs. An illustrative method includes receiving, at a mobile device, a list of preferred combinations of location area codes (“LACs”), cell identifiers (“CIDs”), and times that data access by the mobile device is to be incentivized, determining a current LAC associated with a location area within which the mobile device is currently located, determining a current CID associated with a base transceiver station to which the mobile device is currently connected, determining a current time, and determining if the current LAC, the current cell ID, and the current time are included as a preferred combination in the list. The method also includes providing an indication that data access by the mobile device is incentivized if the current LAC, the current cell ID, and the current time are included in the list as a preferred combination.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 8, 2012
Issued:
November 17, 2015
Assignees:
AT&T Mobility II LLC, AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
Inventors:
Mario Kosseifi, Mark Austin, Sheldon Kent Meredith, Trey Norred, III
Patent number: 9191879
Abstract: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a base station having a wireless transceiver operable in compliance with a Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access protocol, and a controller to manage the wireless transceiver. The controller can be operable to receive a request from a communication device to access the base station, and to direct the communication device to a second base station upon determining that granting wireless access to the communication device reduces an operating performance of the base station below an operating threshold of the base station. Additional embodiments are disclosed.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 11, 2013
Issued:
November 17, 2015
Assignee:
AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, LP
Inventors:
Canhui Ou, Anthony Petronelli, Kevin Meng
Application number: 20150324094
Abstract: An interactive conference is supplemented based on terminology content. Terminology content from a plurality of devices connected to the interactive conference is monitored. A set of words from the terminology content is selected. Supplemental media content at an external source is identified based on the selected set of words, and selectively made available to a device connected to the interactive conference.
Type:
Application
Filed:
July 20, 2015
Issued:
November 12, 2015
Assignee:
AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
Inventors:
David C. GIBBON, Lee BEGEJA, Zhu LIU, Bernard S. RENGER, Behzad SHAHRARAY, Eric ZAVESKY
Application number: 20150326660
Abstract: Information associated with session flows between communication devices and servers is collected and shared. A request is generated for data having predefined attributes within session flows occurring between multiple communication devices and a server over a communication network. The request is sent to a controller having access to information indicating network elements within the communication network traversed by the session flows. The controller selects a network element from among the network elements traversed by the session flows and retrieves the data from the selected network element.
Type:
Application
Filed:
May 6, 2014
Issued:
November 12, 2015
Assignee:
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
Inventors:
Michael J. Satterlee, Dustin Grant, Sandeep Gupta
Application number: 20150326721
Abstract: An interactive voice response system receives a communication initiated by a remote requesting party. Based upon receipt at the interactive voice response system of the communication, visual data to provide to the remote requesting party as part of an integrated interactive script is determined. The visual data is provided to the remote requesting party as part of the integrated interactive script. Depending upon a selection of the remote requesting party, individual elements of the integrated interactive script are sent to the remote requesting party iteratively based upon interaction between the remote requesting party and the interactive voice response system, or multiple individual elements of the integrated interactive script are sent together to the remote requesting party, and individually presented to the remote requesting party based upon interaction between the remote requesting party and the interactive voice response system.
Type:
Application
Filed:
July 17, 2015
Issued:
November 12, 2015
Assignee:
AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
Inventors:
Kevin Ansia LI, Alicia ABELLA
Application number: 20150326532
Abstract: Methods and apparatus to provide a distributed firewall in a network are disclosed. An example method includes identifying, at a control plane, a network traffic rule to implement in a network; determining, at the control plane, a distributed firewall for a first firewall in the network to enforce the network traffic rule; instructing, using the control plane, a first software-defined networking node to instantiate the first firewall of the distributed firewall; configuring a second software-defined networking node to route network traffic through the first firewall; and instructing the first software-defined networking node to enforce the network traffic rule.
Type:
Application
Filed:
May 6, 2014
Issued:
November 12, 2015
Assignee:
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
Inventors:
Dustin Grant, Sandeep Gupta, Sridhar Narahari, Michael J. Satterlee
Application number: 20150325248
Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage devices to improve the quality of synthetic speech generation. A system selects speech units from a speech unit database, the speech units corresponding to text to be converted to speech. The system identifies a desired prosodic curve of speech produced from the selected speech units, and also identifies an actual prosodic curve of the speech units. The selected speech units are modified such that a new prosodic curve of the modified speech units matches the desired prosodic curve. The system stores the modified speech units into the speech unit database for use in generating future speech, thereby increasing the prosodic coverage of the database with the expectation of improving the output quality.
Type:
Application
Filed:
May 12, 2014
Issued:
November 12, 2015
Assignee:
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
Inventors:
Alistair D. CONKIE, Ladan GOLIPOUR, Ann K. SYRDAL
Application number: 20150324187
Abstract: Each of a first and second component version for each of a first and second component of a software application are stored. A profile of the client device is determined. The profile includes a programming language requirement for the client device, a processing capability of the client device and a display capability of the client device. Component versions are selected based on the profile of the client device. One of the selected component version for the first component and the second component of the software application is executed by an application server.
Type:
Application
Filed:
July 16, 2015
Issued:
November 12, 2015
Assignee:
AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
Inventor:
Sreenivasa R. GORTI
Application number: 20150325904
Abstract: A multimedia delivery platform includes a platform manager configured to monitor status of platform resources including content acquisition resources and a managed element, visible to the platform manager, including an externally accessible contact closure. A state of the contact closure is specified by user input provided by a platform manager user. The platform includes a shaking device configured to shake a signal acquisition device such as a dish antenna. A power relay in the platform includes a control terminal coupled to the contact closure of the managed element and output terminals configured to deliver power to the shaking machine upon activation of the power relay.
Type:
Application
Filed:
May 9, 2014
Issued:
November 12, 2015
Assignee:
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
Inventors:
Todd W. Jones, Jason Gabriel Hill, Gary Alan Thompson
Application number: 20150324824
Abstract: Demographic assessment of information is facilitated using targeted location oversampling. In one example, a device determines mobile devices communicatively coupled to a base station device associated with a first defined region, wherein the first defined region is relative to a defined location of interest. The device can transmit a set of instructions to the mobile devices that instruct the mobile devices to power on respective location information components configured to transmit location information. The respective location information can be configured to transmit respective global positioning system information for the mobile devices. The device can also determine which ones of the mobile devices are within a second defined region based on respective location information received from the mobile devices.
Type:
Application
Filed:
May 6, 2014
Issued:
November 12, 2015
Assignee:
AT&T Mobility II LLC
Inventors:
Sheldon Kent Meredith, Mark Austin, Jeremy Fix
Application number: 20150326903
Abstract: A method includes receiving, at a server computing device, a request to stream media content to a user device. The request is associated with data identifying a personal quality profile. The method includes retrieving, via the server computing device, the personal quality profile associated with the data. The personal quality profile indicates media quality preferences. The method includes determining, via a processor of the server computing device, a version of the media content to send to the user device based on the media quality preferences of the personal quality profile and based on a delivery bit rate. The method also includes sending the version from the server computing device to the user device in response to the request.
Type:
Application
Filed:
May 9, 2014
Issued:
November 12, 2015
Assignee:
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
Inventors:
Amy Ruth Reibman, Zhu Liu, Lee Begeja, Bernard S. Renger, David Crawford Gibbon, Behzad Shahraray, Raghuraman Gopalan, Eric Zavesky
Application number: 20150325255
Abstract: A user device provides dynamic speech processing services during variable network connectivity with a network server. The user device includes a monitor that monitors a level of network connectivity between the user device and the network server. A user device speech processor processes speech data and is initiated based on a determination that the level of network connectivity between the user device and the network server is impaired. The monitor determines when the level of network connectivity between the user device and the network server is no longer impaired.
Type:
Application
Filed:
July 20, 2015
Issued:
November 12, 2015
Assignee:
AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
Inventor:
Horst SCHROETER
Application number: 20150326925
Abstract: A method includes receiving, at a media device, overlay data associated with media content. The overlay data includes information indicating a time and a position at which a particular object is represented within the media content, and the overlay data includes information associating the particular object with supplemental information. The method further includes, during playback of the media content, receiving user input at the media device, and, responsive to the user input, generating an overlay display based on the overlay data, where the overlay display causes the particular object to be highlighted in a display of the media content.
Type:
Application
Filed:
May 6, 2014
Issued:
November 12, 2015
Assignee:
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
Inventor:
Mehmet Ozkan
Application number: 20150327016
Abstract: A distance between a host communication device and a mobile target communication device at multiple times over a time period based on a received signal emitted by the mobile target communication device. An amount of time that the distance between the host communication device and the mobile target communication device is within a distance threshold is also determined. A determination is further made whether the amount of time the distance between the host communication device and the mobile target communication device is within the distance threshold is less than a predetermined amount of time. If the amount of time that the distance between the host communication device and the mobile target communication device is within the distance threshold is less than the predetermined amount of time, transmission of a notification to a third party is initiated via a gateway.
Type:
Application
Filed:
May 8, 2014
Issued:
November 12, 2015
Assignee:
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
Inventors:
Scott Shill, Brad Ree, Michael Glazebrook
Application number: 20150321100
Abstract: A thick-game client device includes all of the game data processing on-board while a thin-game client device includes only a small portion of game data processing such as to render visual displays while the majority of the game data processing is network based. A thick-voice client devices includes all of the voice processing on-board while a thin-voice client device includes only a small portion of the voice processing such as to generate acoustic parameter data discussed below while the remainder of the voice processing occurs at a voice services node. It will be appreciated that a client device may be thick with respect to both game processing and voice processing, may be thick with respect to one type of processing and thin with respect to the other, or may be thin with respect to both types of processing.
Type:
Application
Filed:
July 22, 2015
Issued:
November 12, 2015
Assignee:
AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
Inventors:
David J. Anderson, Senis Busayapongchai
Application number: 20150327057
Abstract: To facilitate increasing power and resource efficiency of a mobile device, in the mobile device, with regard to periodic or one-time data transfers, a communication management component can analyze information comprising data transfer parameter information, including jitter information, associated with each application of a subset of applications used by the device and can desirably schedule and/or bundle data transfers associated with the applications to reduce the number of separate data bursts to transfer that data to thereby reduce use of wireless resources and power consumption by the device. A push notification system can receive respective jitter information associated with each application from the mobile device, and the push notification system can desirably schedule and/or bundle push notifications to reduce the number of separate data bursts sent to the device to reduce use of wireless resources and power consumption by the device.
Type:
Application
Filed:
July 16, 2015
Issued:
November 12, 2015
Assignee:
AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
Inventors:
Alexandre Gerber, Zhuoqing Mao, Feng Qian, Subhabrata Sen, Oliver Spatscheck, Zhaoguang Wang
Patent number: 9185575
Abstract: Provided herein are systems and methods for providing exclusive wireless service proposals to subscribers. A method for providing an exclusive wireless service proposal to a subscriber includes the steps of conducting measurements of at least one metric; sending measurement data acquired during the step of conducting to a measurement analysis machine (MAM), the MAM being configured to analyze the measurement data; analyzing the measurement data; predicting performance of at least one of wireless voice and wireless data services based upon the results of the analysis step; generating a proposal for exclusive wireless services based upon the measurement data and the performance prediction; and providing the proposal to a subscriber. Systems for performing this and additional or alternative methods are also disclosed.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 10, 2010
Issued:
November 10, 2015
Assignee:
AT&T Mobility II LLC
Inventor:
Arthur Richard Brisebois
Patent number: 9185572
Abstract: An arrangement for providing, on an ad hoc basis, a closed user group (CUG) among a collection of pre-defined IP network users. A set of intelligent access devices, dispersed through the IP network, constantly transmit a set of pings associated with the defines CUGs to discover those devices within its communication range. The discovered IP addresses for each device is thus constantly updated, allowing group members to remain in constant contact (emulating an “always on” connection). The users feels they are always connected with group members and thus have instant access to voice/data/video sessions—much like hot lines or “always on” connections.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 21, 2013
Issued:
November 10, 2015
Assignee:
AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY II, L.P.
Inventors:
Mostafa Tofighbakhsh, Hossein Eslambolchi