AT&T Patents

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  • Publication number: 20210104920
    Abstract: Concepts and technologies directed to wireless power transfer network management are disclosed herein. Embodiments of a system can include an optical beamforming transmitter, a processor, and a memory that stores computer-executable instructions that configure a processor to perform operations. The operations can include receiving a power charge message that requests wireless power transfer to charge a battery system of a wirelessly chargeable equipment. The operations can include detecting that the wirelessly chargeable equipment is within a power transfer range of the optical beamforming transmitter. The operations can include determining that the wirelessly chargeable equipment is not stationary. The operations can include tracking movement of the wirelessly chargeable equipment and activating the optical beamforming transmitter that provides wireless power transfer to the wirelessly chargeable equipment while the wirelessly chargeable equipment is within the power transfer range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Joseph Soryal, Naila Jaoude, Samuel N. Zellner
  • Publication number: 20210105177
    Abstract: The concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to a network-assisted Raft consensus protocol, referred to herein as “NetRaft.” According to one aspect of the concepts and technologies disclosed herein, a system can include a plurality of servers operating in a server cluster, and a plurality of P4 switches corresponding to the plurality of servers. Each server of the plurality of servers can include a back-end that executes a complete Raft algorithm to perform leader election, log replication, and log commitment of a Raft consensus algorithm. Each P4 switch of the plurality of P4 switches can include a front-end that executes a partial Raft algorithm to perform the log replication and the log commitment of the Raft consensus algorithm. The back-end can maintain a complete state for responding to requests that cannot be fulfilled by the front-end. The requests can include read requests and/or write requests.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Applicants: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Regents of the University of Minnesota
    Inventors: Bo Han, Vijay Gopalakrishnan, Marco Platania, Zhi-Li Zhang, Yang Zhang
  • Patent number: 10973027
    Abstract: Critical radio resources can be intelligently and dynamically managed across traditional consumer mobility and Internet of things (IoT) services in an end-to-end manner. A selective offloading scheme based on monitored traffic dynamics can be utilized to ensure that IoT traffic is steered, on-demand, to a customized and/or dedicated core network slice, thereby enhancing consumer and IoT services experience. In one example, within the IoT domain, traffic can be steered to the customized and/or dedicated core network slice based on various factors, for example, device category and/or congestion per radio carrier, to minimize service disruptions and deliver superior mobility network functionality and/or end-user experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Gaurav Gupta, Rajendra Prasad Kodaypak
  • Patent number: 10972761
    Abstract: A method executed by a processing system of an edge router deployed in a content distribution network includes receiving a request from an endpoint device for a first file, determining that a portion of the first file is not stored in a cache of the edge router, determining that the cache is at a capacity threshold, selecting a second file to evict from the cache, wherein the second file is one of a plurality of files stored in the cache, wherein each file of the plurality of files is scheduled to be evicted from the cache when a threshold period of time has passed since a last request for the each file was received by the edge router, and wherein the threshold period of time associated with the second file is scheduled to expire soonest among all of the plurality of files, and evicting the second file from the cache.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignees: PURDUE RESEARCH FOUNDATION, AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Moo-Ryong Ra, Abubakr O. Al-Abbasi, Vaneet Aggarwal
  • Patent number: 10972961
    Abstract: A mobile device that incorporates the subject disclosure may perform, for example, operations including requesting transport characteristics of a network coupled to a server and to the device according to a trajectory of the device. Data packets are transported to the mobile device according to a dynamic adaptive streaming over hypertext transfer protocol. The operations include obtaining the current transport characteristics of the network and predicting a future transport characteristic of the network, according to the trajectory of the device. A time is scheduled for sending a request to the server for transmission over the network of a data packet. The time can be scheduled according to the current and future transport characteristics of the network, to avoid degradation in quality of media content presented by the device. The data packet received responsive to sending the request is buffered for a future presentation of the media content. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: David Crawford Gibbon, Andrea Basso
  • Patent number: 10972928
    Abstract: Analysis and graphical rendering of subscriber data is provided. A data analysis component is provided that obtains a set of subscriber data, correlates various subsets of the subscriber data to determine a plurality of data relationships, and graphical renders the subscriber data as a heat map, a fractal map, a tree map, a three dimensional plot, a three dimensional map, a graph, a chart, etc. based on a scale associated with the data relationships. In addition, the data analysis component can obtain a set of line number portability data that can be correlated with the various subsets of the subscriber data to determine the data relationships.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T MOBILITY II LLC
    Inventors: Patrick Hicks, Peter Andrew Johnson
  • Patent number: 10972958
    Abstract: The subject matter described herein is directed towards a technology that increases the reliability of transmitting information, by propagating received information in a location-controlled and route managed multiple-stage chain communication in a wireless communication system. A transmitting device transmits a broadcast or group-cast communication message in conjunction with transmitter and receiver location data (e.g., absolute or quantized coordinates). An intermediate device that receives the communication message determines a communication path based on the received location data, and determines whether the intermediate device is within the communication path based on its own location. Only intermediate devices that are within the communications path, and that otherwise satisfy retransmission policy, perform the retransmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Xiaoyi Wang, Salam Akoum
  • Patent number: 10972776
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a processing system of a communication node routing data packets for a first streaming session between a viewer node of a plurality of viewer nodes and a content streaming server through the communication node without interrupting delivery of content data to the viewer node, establishing a second streaming session with the content streaming server to receive the content data, creating a first and second replacement connections by imitating a connections with the content streaming server and the viewer node, receiving a control packet over the second streaming session from the content streaming server, and splitting the first streaming session responsive to receiving the control packet. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Shu Shi, Rittwik Jana, Bo Yan
  • Patent number: 10973083
    Abstract: Communication between drones of multiple drone meshes is disclosed. Attributes of drones can be cataloged by a network device. A portion of the drone attribute catalog can be received by a drone belonging to a drone mesh. The drone can determine, based on the portion of the drone attribute catalog, an adaptation to the drone mesh in response to a change in a status of a drone of the drone mesh. The adaptation of the drone mesh can comprise adding a drone to the drone mesh, removing drone from the drone mesh, merging the drone mesh with another drone mesh, splitting the drone mesh into a plurality of drone meshes, forming a submesh of the drone mesh, etc. Receiving the portion of the drone attribute catalog can facilitate self-organization and/or self-optimization of a drone mesh by drones comprising the drone mesh. A drone can concurrently be a member of one or more drone meshes as a result of the adaptation of the drone mesh.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Venson Shaw, Sangar Dowlatkhah, Zhi Cui
  • Patent number: 10972447
    Abstract: A processor may receive a request to authenticate an endpoint device associated with a media streaming session, the media streaming session delivered to the endpoint device via a cellular access network, generate an authentication key, and transmit the authentication key to the endpoint device via a short message service message. The processor may further receive a calculated response from the endpoint device, the calculated response based upon the authentication key and a seed key of the endpoint device, determine whether the calculated response matches an expected response based upon the authentication key and the seed key, and authenticate the endpoint device based upon whether the calculated response matches the expected response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T MOBILITY II LLC
    Inventor: Arturo Maria
  • Patent number: 10972922
    Abstract: Various embodiments disclosed herein provide for multi-stage segmentation of downlink control information. Downlink control information can arrive at a user equipment on more than one channel, setting up and configuring data channels for different base stations, or data channels for the same base station but where the data channels are in different frequency domains or time domains. The downlink control information segmentation system disclosed herein can determine when downlink control information for the user equipment is common across a plurality of downlink control channels, and ensure that the downlink control information is sent just one time, to avoid redundant data transmissions and increased overhead.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Ralf Bendlin, Xiaoyi Wang, SaiRamesh Nammi
  • Patent number: 10972385
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus to provide a consumer services cloud in a communications network are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a processor and a computer readable storage medium including computer readable instructions that cause the processor to analyze authentication information in a request for access to a communications network to identify which of multiple possible users associated with a communications network customer is a current user of a client device, analyze second network communications based on a security rule to identify a security risk of the second network communications, access a first profile corresponding to the identified current user to determine a rule to be used to handle network communications transferred within the communications network from the client device of the communications network customer that are diverted via a software-defined network (SDN) switch, and configure a forwarding table of the SDN switch to comply with information obtained from the client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignees: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P., AT&T MOBILITY II LLC
    Inventors: Zhi Cui, Thomas A. Anschutz, Alan Blackburn, Arthur Richard Brisebois
  • Patent number: 10972899
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, by a mobility management enhancer, device information from a device and determining, by the mobility management enhancer, a data session requested by the device based on the device information. The method also includes receiving, by the mobility management enhancer, service provider information from a service provider, requesting, by the mobility management enhancer, network information of a network, and receiving, by the mobility management enhancer, the network information. The method further includes determining, by the mobility management enhancer, an action associated with the data session requested by the device based on the device information, the service provider information, and the network information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventor: Julius Mueller
  • Patent number: 10972602
    Abstract: In one example, a processing system including at least one processor may obtain a call request from a calling device to a destination device, identify a caller category associated with the calling device, and forward the call request to the destination device with an indicator of the caller category, where the indicator of the caller category is to cause the destination device to present at least one of: a first ringtone that is associated with the caller category or a first vibration pattern that is associated with the caller category.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventor: Howard L. Lang
  • Patent number: 10970519
    Abstract: A method for validating objects appearing in volumetric video presentations includes obtaining a volumetric video presentation depicting a scene, wherein the volumetric video presentation is associated with a metadata file containing identifying information for the scene, identifying user-generated content that depicts the scene, by matching metadata associated with the user-generated content to the metadata file associated with the volumetric video presentation, comparing a first object appearing in the volumetric video presentation to a corresponding second object appearing in the user-generated content, assigning a score to the first object based on the comparing, wherein the score indicates a probability that the first object has not been manipulated, and altering the volumetric video presentation to filter the first object from the volumetric video presentation when the score falls below a threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Zhu Liu, Eric Zavesky, David Crawford Gibbon, Lee Begeja, Paul Triantafyllou
  • Patent number: 10970041
    Abstract: A list of digital elements to be sorted are converted to a group of analog signals. The group of analog signals are simultaneously compared to each other to determine the largest analog signal in the group. The largest analog signal is then compared to each of the analog signals in the group to determine which one or more of the analog signals in the group matches the largest analog signal. The matching one or more of the analog signals is removed from the group and the process is repeated until the group of analog signals have been sorted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Sheldon K. Meredith, William C. Cottrill
  • Patent number: 10970724
    Abstract: In one example, a processor may generate a graph of vertices representing distribution areas of a telecommunication network and links between vertices of adjacent distribution areas, calculate similarity measures for the links based on distance scores between vertices joined by the links relating to: percentages of aerial infrastructure and percentages of multi-unit buildings in distribution areas represented by the two vertices, and whether or not the distribution areas represented by the two vertices are on a same route from a central office of the telecommunication network. The processor may label the links with the similarity measures to create a link-weighted adjacency graph, perform community detection on the link-weighted adjacency graph to generate sub-graphs, each sub-graph including at least one of the vertices, and provide a map of construction zones based upon geographic areas covered by distribution areas associated with vertices in the sub-graphs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Susanne Halstead, Halim Damerdji, Andrew Domenico
  • Patent number: 10972181
    Abstract: An improved technique for acoustic sensing involves, in one embodiment, launching into a medium, a plurality of groups of pulse-modulated electromagnetic-waves. The frequency of electromagnetic waves in a pulse within a group differs from the frequency of the electromagnetic waves in another pulse within the group. The energy scattered by the medium is detected and, in one embodiment, may be used to determine a characteristic of the environment of the medium. For example, if the medium is a buried optical fiber into which light pulses have been launched in accordance with the invention, the presence of acoustic waves within the region of the buried fiber can be detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.
    Inventors: Justin Hayward, Andrew B. Lewis, Stuart Russell
  • Patent number: 10971135
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage devices for crowd-sourced data labeling. The system requests a respective response from each of a set of entities. The set of entities includes crowd workers. Next, the system incrementally receives a number of responses from the set of entities until one of an accuracy threshold is reached and m responses are received, wherein the accuracy threshold is based on characteristics of the number of responses. Finally, the system generates an output response based on the number of responses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Jason Williams, Tirso Alonso, Barbara B. Hollister, Ilya Dan Melamed
  • Patent number: 10970699
    Abstract: Wireless pairing is automatically performed based on a purchase of a wireless product. When the wireless product is purchased, a unique product identifier and/or an account number (such as a credit card number) may be used to obtain one or more corresponding wireless network security credentials. Once the wireless network security credentials are identified, the wireless product may be paired to a wireless network based on the wireless network security credentials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignees: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P., AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Emily Soelberg, Glenn Blumstein, Ginger Chien, Murali Narayanan, Bradley Richard Ree, Venson Shaw
  • Patent number: 10972363
    Abstract: A system and methods for providing service assurance using real-time monitoring, management and maintenance capabilities to provide customers and vendors with information related to the state of the service. The service assurance domain implements end-to-end functionality with a level of granularity sufficient to diagnose issues to the device and call/session level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T MOBILITY II LLC
    Inventors: Melanie Sater, Ginger Chien, Dan Druta
  • Patent number: 10970555
    Abstract: A system can obtain a labelled data set, including historic video data and labelled events. The system can divide the labelled data set into historic training/testing data sets. The system can determine, using the historic training data set, a plurality of different parameter configurations to be used by a video encoder to encode a video that includes a plurality of video frames. Each parameter configuration can include a group of pictures (“GOP”) size and a scenecut threshold. The system can calculate an accuracy of event detection (“ACC”) and a filtering rate (“FR”) for each parameter configuration. The system can calculate, for each parameter configuration of the plurality of different parameter configurations, a harmonic mean between the ACC and the FR. The system can then select a best parameter configuration of the plurality of different parameter configurations based upon the parameter configuration that has the highest harmonic mean.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Tarek Elgamal, Shu Shi, Varun Gupta, John Murray, Rittwik Jana
  • Patent number: 10972180
    Abstract: An improved technique for acoustic sensing involves, in one embodiment, launching into a medium, a plurality of groups of pulse-modulated electromagnetic-waves. The frequency of electromagnetic waves in a pulse within a group differs from the frequency of the electromagnetic waves in another pulse within the group. The energy scattered by the medium is detected and, in one embodiment, the beat signal may be used to determine a characteristic of the environment of the medium. For example, if the medium is a buried optical fiber into which light pulses have been launched in accordance with the invention, the presence of acoustic waves within the region of the buried fiber can be detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.
    Inventors: Andrew B. Lewis, Stuart Russell
  • Patent number: 10970882
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a machine-readable medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processing system including a processor, facilitate performance of operations including receiving a base layer of a first frame of a point cloud of a volumetric video encoded in an octree format over a communication network; receiving a first enhancement layer of the first frame of the point cloud of the volumetric video encoded in the octree format responsive to available sufficient bandwidth in the communication network for delivery of the first enhancement layer; receiving a second enhancement layer of the first frame of the point cloud of the volumetric video encoded in the octree format responsive to available sufficient bandwidth in the communication network for delivery of the second enhancement layer; and rendering the first frame on a display device. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Bo Han, Cheuk Yiu Ip, Jackson Jarrell Pair
  • Patent number: 10972427
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, embodiments that include obtaining a first data pool of different types of data. The different types of data include a first group of IPv4 addresses. Further embodiments include selecting a first portion of the first group of IPv4 addresses using artificial intelligence techniques and storing the first portion of the first group of IPv4 addresses in a first table of IPv4 addresses. Additional embodiments can include assigning a first IPv4 address in the first table to a first computing device in response to determining the first IPv4 address in the first table is not currently being used. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventor: Yuan-Chi Hu
  • Patent number: 10970902
    Abstract: Global position system tagging the movement of an object and extrapolating its direction and speed can be used for various services including emergency-based services. Location data can be computed using edge computing nodes. The extrapolation system can account for feedback from responding user devices and utilize the user device's location at the time of reporting to facilitate determining the direction, location, and/or speed of a moving object. This data can then be utilized to generate augmented reality displays for mobile devices and/or vehicles that utilize the system. The ability to calculate directional information with edge computing nodes can comprise an ability to add enriched data by predicting an object's whereabouts, route, and/or final destination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignees: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P., AT&T MOBILITY II LLC
    Inventors: Sangar Dowlatkhah, Zhi Cui
  • Patent number: 10972214
    Abstract: Various embodiments disclosed herein provide for facilitating scheduling of uplink data using demodulation reference signal and scheduled resources. According an embodiment, a system can comprise configuring a network device with a periodic rate of specified sounding reference signals with a periodicity using radio resource control signaling. The system can further facilitate estimating channel state information associated with a channel via which the network device communicates. The system can further facilitate transmitting an uplink grant with uplink transmission parameters to set up a physical uplink shared channel, wherein the uplink transmission parameters are determined based on the channel state information. The system can further facilitate estimating scheduling parameters based on a first estimation information associated with the physical uplink shared channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: SaiRamesh Nammi, Arunabha Ghosh
  • Patent number: 10972526
    Abstract: In one example, the encoding rate at which data is delivered over a network is estimated by intercepting a data packet from a data streaming session, wherein the data packet contains at least a portion of one of a plurality of file segments containing portions of a file, and wherein a number of the plurality of file segments that is delivered via the data streaming session is limited to a maximum number. The mean size of the plurality of file segments is estimated from data contained in the data packet. A plurality of potential sizes of the plurality of file segments is calculated, wherein each potential size corresponds to one number between one and the maximum number. An encoding rate of the data streaming session is calculated, based at least in part on which potential size of the plurality of potential sizes is closest to the mean size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Yongdong Zhao, Zhengye Liu, Yali Liu, Zuxian Guo
  • Patent number: 10972816
    Abstract: A system for enabling deep fiber access to a software defined network includes a hybrid fiber coaxial (HFC) network, a software defined network (SDN) control agent disposed in the HFC network and a core network. The core network includes an IP backbone and an SDN. The SDN control agent receives a notification of a quality of service (QoS) degradation event and the accesses local table rules stored in the SDN control agent to determine whether the local table rules identify an action to implement in response to the notification. When the local table rules identify the control agent action to take in response to the notification implementing the action. When the local table rules do not identify the action to be implemented by the SDN control agent in response to the notification, then the SDN control agent accesses the SDN controller to determine whether the SDN controller can identify a controller action to take in response to the notification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Moshiur Rahman, Barnali Chatterjee
  • Patent number: 10972534
    Abstract: Cloud services require the outward appearance of unlimited resources with flexible availability for varying demand. However, while on-demand allocation and deallocation of resources may seem efficient, there are significant cases where simply allocating and deallocating resources just in response to demand results in inefficiencies. As discussed herein, cloud services can be made more efficient by deallocating resources based on delays incurred between when resources are requested to be deallocated and reallocated and when they actually are deallocated and allocated, and for how long the resource would be returned to the cloud before needing to be reallocated. Deallocating resources more efficiently not only gives a direct performance improvement, but also indirect, since deallocated resources may not be available again when demand increases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventor: Robert Todd Stephens
  • Patent number: 10972789
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving, over a communication network, a plurality of requests for frames of video content to provide to a mobile device. Further embodiments can include determining a first portion of the plurality of requests are for pre-fetch frames of the video content, and providing, over the communication network, the pre-fetch frames to the mobile device over a default bearer path. Additional embodiments can include determining a second portion of the plurality of requests are for emergent frames of the video content, and providing, over the communication network, the emergent frames to the mobile device over a dedicated bearer path. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Zhehui Zhang, Shu Shi, Rittwik Jana, Varun Gupta
  • Patent number: 10972513
    Abstract: A method, computer-readable medium, and device for processing a stream of records are disclosed. A method may receive a registration request from a data source to join in providing a plurality of records to the stream, synchronize a timing system with the data source, receive an initial timestamp from the data source, and post the initial timestamp to a plurality of operators or a plurality of subscribers before the data source is allowed to send records into the stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Theodore Johnson, Vladislav Shkapenyuk
  • Patent number: 10972996
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, storing subscription utilization information in the memory where the subscription utilization information is indicative of a history of subscription usage by the device and where registration information associated with a group of subscription agreements is stored in the memory, receiving location information from the device processor where the location information indicates a location of the device, and selecting a target subscription agreement from among the group of subscription agreements according to the history of subscription usage and the location information. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventor: Robert Osterwise
  • Patent number: 10973037
    Abstract: Various embodiments disclosed herein provide for data traffic steering based on quality of service. According to some embodiments, a system can comprise receiving data packets associated with a quality of service value, wherein the data packets are stored in a buffer and transmitted utilizing a first link, determining whether a condition that indicates a modification to a data routing schedule is satisfied and whether a second link is available, and in response to the determining indicating that the condition is satisfied and that the second link is available, performing the modification of the data routing schedule comprising utilizing the second link and the first link to transmit the data packets associated with the quality of service value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Yupeng Jia, Wenge Chen
  • Patent number: 10972777
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining a content item, receiving a first token that comprises an identification of a date and a time when a first portion of the content item is obtained, a location where the first portion of the content item is obtained, or a combination thereof, and transmitting the content item and the first token to a database. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Eric Zavesky, Robert Gratz, Jason Decuir, James Pratt
  • Patent number: 10972779
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method including initiating a creation of a personalized channel responsive to equipment of a user requesting to create the personalized channel, providing a search request to equipment of a content provider for content for the personalized channel according to the request, retrieving content from the content provider according to the search request as retrieved content, classifying the content for the personalized channel according to the content of the retrieved content to generate classified content according to a content type and a content source of the retrieved content, sequencing the classified content to generate sequenced content, assigning the sequenced content to a time slot in a schedule of the personalized channel as ready-for-broadcast content, and delivering the ready-for-broadcast content to the personalized channel according to the time slot in the schedule. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventor: Millie Hwa
  • Publication number: 20210097552
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, capturing heterogeneous event data associated with a pool of customers and selecting, based on the heterogenous event data, a set of event labels and a set of customer labels. Some embodiments include constructing, for each of a plurality of customers among the pool of customers, a respective time-ordered event sequence array comprising one or more event information items. Various embodiments include applying a heterogenous event sequence model to generate, based on the respective time-ordered event sequences of the plurality of customers, an ordered series of event pathways and a topic set comprising a plurality of topics representing customer traits. Some embodiments include applying the heterogenous event sequence model to generate a respective topic weight set for each of the plurality of customers. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2019
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Nathaniel Meyer, Kenrick O. Fernandes
  • Publication number: 20210097572
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving information associated with a first shopper of a plurality of shoppers from a monitoring device monitoring for presence of the plurality of shoppers; detecting, according to the information, entry into a store by the first shopper; identifying (responsive to detecting the entry) the first shopper, resulting in a first identification; generating (based upon the first identification) a first layout, the first layout comprising for each of a plurality of display screens situated along a route a respective visualization to be displayed, each respective visualization being part of a plurality of visualizations; detecting (responsive to receiving first motion data from the monitoring device) first movement by the first shopper to a first location that is proximal to a first display screen of the plurality of display screens; providing on the first display screen (responsive to detecting the first movement to the first location) a first visualizat
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2019
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Eric Zavesky, James Pratt, Timothy Innes
  • Publication number: 20210099388
    Abstract: According to one aspect disclosed herein, a system can include a set of node peers, including a first subset implemented in software and a second subset implemented in hardware. The first subset can include a software node. The second subset can include a hardware node that includes a hardware cache, a processor, and a memory that stores computer-executable instructions. The hardware node can receive, from a network, a packet, and can determine if data that identifies a path associated with the packet is stored in the hardware cache. If not, the hardware node can query the software node to identify the path associated with the packet, and can receive, in response from the software node, the data that identifies the path, which then can be stored in the hardware cache. The hardware node can forward, along the path, the packet to a network element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2019
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Abhigyan, Kaustubh Joshi, Han Nguyen, Edward Daniels
  • Publication number: 20210099752
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving, for a selected channel, a first video; processing the first video for rendering on a display being viewed by a user; selecting from among a plurality of channels a subset of channels for which to pre-fetch data, the selecting being according to predictions that each channel of the subset of channels is more likely to be requested by the user than each channel of the plurality of channels that is not part of the subset; prioritizing the subset of channels such that a first channel of the subset of channels has a priority over a second channel of the subset of channels, the first channel being given the priority based upon a prediction that the first channel is more likely to be requested by the user than the second channel; pre-fetching, for the first channel, first data of a first type and second data of a second type; and pre-fetching, for the second channel, third data of the first type without pre-fetching any data of the second type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Alexander Ruditsky, Eric Zavesky
  • Patent number: 10963822
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for a service platform capable of providing device-based task completion is disclosed. A request for a task is received at a service platform from a customer. A worker device to complete the task is selected from a group of worker devices registered with the service platform based on a current attribute of the worker device. Data resulting from completion of the task is received from the selected worker device, validated, and presented to the customer. A reward or incentive can be provided to the worker device in response to the data being received from the worker device and validated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Behzad Shahraray, Andrea Basso, Lee Begeja, David C. Gibbon, Zhu Liu, Bernard S. Renger, Eric Zavesky
  • Patent number: 10965344
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, a system for generating a plurality of electromagnetic waves having differing signal characteristics, each electromagnetic wave of the plurality of electromagnetic waves conveying a communication signal, and the plurality of electromagnetic waves propagating along a transmission medium without radiating into free space. The system can be further configured for generating, by an antenna coupled to the transmission medium, a plurality of wireless signals according to the plurality of electromagnetic waves. The differing signal characteristics of the plurality of electromagnetic waves thereby enables a device to obtain the communication signal by combining the plurality of wireless signals. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property 1, L.P.
    Inventors: Paul Shala Henry, Giovanni Vannucci, Thomas M. Willis, III
  • Patent number: 10963321
    Abstract: Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for discovery and chaining of virtual functions. An application request can be received from a requestor. The application request can include a request to create an application. Based upon the application request, an application topology associated with the application can be determined. The application topology can define virtual functions and a data flow among the virtual functions. Creation of the plurality of virtual functions in a computing environment can be triggered and an indication of capabilities of the virtual functions can be received. The virtual functions can be chained together to provide functionality associated with the application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Jayanta Das, Rupam Choudhury
  • Patent number: 10964325
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining an input, e.g., from a human operator, comprising a request. A number of activities are identified, e.g., by a virtual assistant, based on the request. Performance of the number of activities is facilitated, e.g., by the virtual assistant. A result is determined, e.g., by the virtual assistant, based on the performance of the number of activities, wherein a response to the request is based on the result. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventor: Mazin E. Gilbert
  • Patent number: 10965621
    Abstract: Concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to application-based multiple radio access technologies (“RAT”) and platform control using software-defined networking (“SDN”). According to one aspect of the concepts and technologies disclosed herein, an SDN controller can configure a radio access network (“RAN”) for connectionless services and for connection-oriented services. The RAN can support multiple RATs each capable of providing radio access to a device, such as a UE or an IoT device. The SDN controller can determine a user plane path configuration for an application flow through at least part of the RAN. The SDN controller can provide the user plane configuration to an SDN agent that is stored on and is executable by the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Zhi Cui, Jiansong Wang, Thomas A. Anschutz
  • Patent number: 10966044
    Abstract: A system, computer-implemented method, and tangible computer-readable media for media playback. The method includes receiving a request from a user to play a media asset, detecting capabilities of the playback device, detecting playback environment acoustic characteristics, optimizing media playback settings for the playback device and the playback environment characteristics, preparing the media asset for playback on the playback device, and transferring the prepared media asset to the playback device for playback. The method can further transfer optimized playback settings to the playback device. Media asset preparation can be based at least in part on the optimized playback settings. A playback profile can store environment characteristics and playback device capabilities. The method continuously detects changes in the playback environment characteristics, and optimizes media playback settings when detected changes exceed a threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Andrea Basso, Zhu Liu, Bernard S. Renger, Behzad Shahraray
  • Patent number: 10965672
    Abstract: Concepts and technologies of network service control for remote access to wireless radio networks are provided herein. In an embodiment, a client network can be provided by a network access point that can include a processor that is configured to detect a guest user equipment and determine whether the guest user equipment is a recognized device. In response to determining that the guest user equipment is not a recognized device, the processor can create an identity verification request message that seeks approval from a host device to allow the guest user equipment to access the client network. The processor can provide the identity verification request message to the host device and receive a trigger response message. The processor can create a network access package that provides the guest user equipment with access credentials to access the client network and provide the network access package to the guest user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Earle H. West, III, Mark Fu
  • Patent number: 10965962
    Abstract: A content delivery network includes an overlay network having a plurality of cache servers. Each cache server configured to receive a request from a personal content server to register with the content delivery network, receive a request from a mobile capture device to establish communication with the personal content server, and establish a communication path through the overlay network between the mobile capture device and the personal content server. Each cache server is further configured to transfer content from the mobile capture device along the communication path to the personal content server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Weidong Hu, Bernard Ku, Cameron Coursey
  • Patent number: 10966137
    Abstract: The described technology is generally directed towards adaptively changing which transmission scheme a user equipment is to use based on a Doppler metric (e.g. Doppler frequency) as evaluated against a threshold Doppler value. A network instructs a user equipment to use a Rank-1 precoder cycling transmission scheme if the Doppler metric of user equipment is above a threshold value, or to use a closed loop MIMO transmission scheme if the user equipment has a Doppler metric below the threshold value. The network can instruct the user equipment via a suitable message, or by switching off TPMI and notifying the user equipment thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: SaiRamesh Nammi, Arunabha Ghosh
  • Patent number: 10966072
    Abstract: In a 6G network, microservices can be utilized in the absence of a core network. For example, after a mobile device has authenticated, through its carrier network, with a transport service layer, microservices can be allocated to the mobile device without having to be transmitted via the core network. Thus, removing the core network from the process can generate a direct line of microservices from the transport layer to the end-user. Furthermore, additional microservices and/or resources can be access through a microservices library. Consequently, packets can be securely transmitted be a wireless network facilitating sending packet profile data from one to many node devices in anticipation of the packet traversing the various node devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignees: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P., AT&T MOBILITY II LLC
    Inventors: Sangar Dowlatkhah, Zhi Cui