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  • Publication number: 20220150769
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining data relating to a user equipment, where the user equipment is communicatively coupled to a first network node, and where the first network node employs a first radio access technology, determining whether there is an initiation of a call session for the user equipment to be facilitated by the first network node, determining, according to the data relating to the user equipment and responsive to determining that there is an initiation of a call session, a probability that the call session will become disconnected, and controlling connectivity between the user equipment and a second network node based on the probability that the call session will become disconnected, wherein the second network node employs a second radio access technology. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2020
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicants: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Technical Services Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Vivanco, David Ross Beppler, Slawomir Mikolaj Stawiarski
  • Publication number: 20220150106
    Abstract: A device includes a processor and a memory. The processor effectuates operations including monitoring enterprise network traffic associated with one or more user device (UE). The processor further effectuates operations including comparing the enterprise network traffic to a UE profile associated with each of the one or more UE. The processor further effectuates operations including determining whether the comparison indicates that a predetermined threshold has been exceeded. The processor further effectuates operations including in response to the indication that the predetermined threshold has been exceeded, generating an alert, wherein exceeding the predetermined threshold is indicative of a denial of service attack on an enterprise network or an attempt to remove enterprise data via the one or more UE.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicants: AT&T DIGITAL LIFE, INC., AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Rodney McTaggart, David Roth
  • Publication number: 20220150127
    Abstract: A device that monitors a network element in a network topology of network elements within a software defined network (SDN) and identifies a first node state and a second node state for the network element. The device detects an occurrence of an error between the first node state and the second node state. The device determines a differential for the network element between the first node state and the second node state indicating changes to the network element occurring between the first node state and the second node state. The device, based on determining the differential, displays one or more attributes or the one or more relationships associated with the network element at the first node state, the second node state or the differential between states.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: William Reehil, Robby Maharajh, Soumya Naik, Harish Venkata Kajur, Manisha Aggarwal
  • Publication number: 20220150294
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, socially shared and opportunistic content creation. A narrative may be partitioned in scenes, and rich descriptions are generated for each scene. Content contributors are selected to provide user generated content for each of the scenes, and the user generated content is scored and combined to create media content. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Eric Zavesky, David Crawford Gibbon, Jean-Francois Paiement, Tan Xu
  • Publication number: 20220150102
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes monitoring, by a control loop including a processor and a memory, a first environment. The control loop includes one or more predetermined control loop parameters. The method also includes receiving, by the control loop and in response to monitoring the first environment, first data from the first environment and receiving, by the control loop, information from an adaptation control loop. The method also includes determining, by the control loop, to automatically adjust at least one of the one or more predetermined control loop parameters based at least in part on the information received from the adaptation control loop and automatically adjusting, by the control loop, the one or more predetermined control loop parameters. The method further includes determining, by the control loop, to initiate an action based on the first data collected from the first environment and the one or more adjusted control loop parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Aaron, James Fan
  • Publication number: 20220151001
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining data relating to a user equipment communicatively coupled to a first network node, the data including information regarding a data buffer associated with the user equipment, obtaining node information relating to a second network node, the node information identifying available network resources of the second network node and a coverage range of the second network node, determining, based on the information regarding the data buffer, that a status of the data buffer satisfies a condition, determining that the first network node has insufficient network resources to satisfy a network resource demand of the user equipment based on the determining that the status of the data buffer satisfies the condition, and selectively activating the second network node, based on the available network resources of the second network node and the coverage range of the second network node. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicants: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Technical Services Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Vivanco, David Ross Beppler, Slawomir Mikolaj Stawiarski
  • Publication number: 20220150695
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, responsive to a first registration request to access a mobile network, determining whether a first phone number associated with a first IMSI assigned to a first SIM of a first mobile device matches a second phone number associated with a second IMSI assigned to a second SIM of a second mobile device, determining whether the second mobile device is currently registered to the mobile network, and, in turn, sending a request for authentication to register the first mobile device and to deregister the second mobile device, determining whether a response to the request for the authentication code matches an authentication code, and responsive to the determining the response matches the authentication code, registering the first mobile device to the mobile network and deregistering the second mobile device from the mobile network. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2020
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicants: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Sheldon Kent Meredith, Yevgeniy Puzyrev, Zachary Meredith
  • Publication number: 20220150573
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, providing media content to a communication device. The communication device provides a playback of a presentation of the media content. Further embodiments can include receiving an indication from the communication device that indicates a pause in the presentation of the media content, and determining a plurality of attributes associated with the pause. Additional embodiments can include providing instructions according to the plurality of attributes associated with the pause to the communication device. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2020
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: David Crawford Gibbon, Eric Zavesky, Lee Begeja, Tan Xu, Paul Triantafyllou, Jean-Francois Paiement
  • Publication number: 20220150590
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method of receiving, by a processing system including a processor, viewership data for a plurality of viewers watching a program; identifying, by the processing system, an anomalous event from the viewership data, wherein the viewership data includes data points per viewer logged on a per second basis, and wherein the processing system identifies the anomalous event using a pattern recognition algorithm; analyzing, by the processing system, the viewership data to determine a reason for the anomalous event; and providing, by the processing system, a user interface that presents a comparison of the anomalous event versus a standard and indicia for the reason for the anomalous event. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2020
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Jianxiong Dong, Eric Zavesky, Jean-Francois Paiement
  • Publication number: 20220150602
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer readable-media for temporally adaptive media playback. The method for adaptive media playback includes estimating or determining an amount of time between a first event and a second event, selecting media content to fill the estimated amount of time between the first event and the second event, and playing the selected media content possibly at a reasonably different speed to fit the time interval. One embodiment includes events that are destination-based or temporal-based. Another embodiment includes adding, removing, speeding up, or slowing down selected media content in order to fit the estimated amount of time between the first event and the second event or to modify the selected media content to adjust to an updated estimated amount of time. Another embodiment bases selected media content on a user or group profile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Andrea Basso, Lee Begeja, David C. Gibbon, Zhu Liu, Bernard S. Renger, Behzad Shahraray
  • Patent number: 11330112
    Abstract: Various methods for a 3GPP defined Charging and Collection Function are employed that may use a microservices approach. The microservice approach may decompose the function of the network elements into component level functions that may be deployed as separate functional elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: James Edward Oliver, Ming Mei Lee, Debra Sparks
  • Patent number: 11330045
    Abstract: A processing system may identify a first set of downloader devices for a first media stream from a first uploader device, where a plurality of servers of a distribution network is available to route the first media stream between the first uploader device and the first set of downloader devices, calculate a first upload bitrate and a first upload server of the plurality of servers for uploading the first media stream, where the calculating may minimize an average latency experienced by a plurality of downloader devices and maximize an average download bitrate for the downloader devices across a set of media streams including the first media stream, where the plurality of downloader devices includes the first set of downloader devices, and where each media stream is associated with a respective uploader device, and assign the first upload bitrate and the first upload server to the first uploader device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Bharath Balasubramanian, Zhe Huang, Jiasi Chen
  • Patent number: 11329719
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses, among other things, may integrate one or more first alarms reported by routers and Ethernet switches with one or more second alarms reported by reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexers (ROADMs) and optical transport network (OTN) network elements. Moreover, one or more troubleshooting actions may be performed based on the integrated first alarms and second alarms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventor: Mohammad Abidi
  • Patent number: 11329894
    Abstract: The disclosed technology is directed towards a frame-based indicator that can convey current network condition information and the type and quality of service currently available. The frame-based indicator can fit the shape of a user equipment, such as surrounding the display screen. The frame can be used to indicate various network information, including, but not limited to signal power, signal quality, noise, type of band available, network speeds and network latency. Network quality and types of services can be differentiated by frame size, frame pattern, frame color, frame color intensity, frame background gradient, frame flash pattern, frame animation, and so forth. The operating system and application programs can use the frame-based indicator to convey the various network-related information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignees: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P., AT&T MOBILITY II LLC
    Inventors: Iftekhar Alam, Ming-Ju Ho, Alexander Viox
  • Patent number: 11330239
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining image content over a communication network, determining a predicted viewpoint of a user associated with the image content, and adjusting the image content to equirectangular image content according to the predicted viewpoint. Further aspects can include downscaling the equirectangular image content according to a display capability of a mobile device resulting in a downscaled equirectangular image content, cropping the downscaled equirectangular image content resulting in a cropped equirectangular image content, and providing, over the communication network, the cropped equirectangular image content to the mobile device. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Shu Shi, Varun Gupta, Rittwik Jana
  • Patent number: 11330548
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a system that registers a communication device with a temporary IMSI shared among multiple communication devices with a virtual registration function. Further, the system provisions an active IMSI using a virtual Over-the-Air (OTA) function onto the communication device and indicates to the communication device to register with a registration function using the active IMSI. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Walter Cooper Chastain, Stephen Emille Chin
  • Patent number: 11330252
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, transmitting viewpoint information associated with a first portion of a three-dimensional (3D)/volumetric video to a device, wherein the viewpoint information comprises a first coordinate in 3D space associated with a first viewing direction in a playback of the first portion and a first timestamp associated with the first portion, receiving, from the device, a multiplane image (MPI) representation of a second portion of the 3D video responsive to the transmitting of the viewpoint information, and providing an image of the MPI representation to a display device. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Tan Xu, Bo Han, Eric Zavesky
  • Patent number: 11330401
    Abstract: The technologies described herein are generally directed toward facilitating centrally assisted associations with a local manager by peers in a peer to peer wireless system. According to an embodiment, a system can comprise a processor and a memory that can store executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations. The operations can include identifying a group of local managers of a group of user equipments. The operations can further include receiving, from a network device, a criterion for selecting a local manager from the group of local managers of the group of user equipments, wherein the criterion is based on an association parameter selected by the network device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Thomas Novlan, Ralf Bendlin, Arunabha Ghosh, Xiaoyi Wang
  • Patent number: 11328224
    Abstract: A method, computer-readable medium, and apparatus for modeling data of a service for providing a policy are disclosed. For example, a method may include a processor for generating a first policy for a first service by a first policy model using machine learning for processing first data of the first service, determining whether the first policy is to be applied to a second service, applying the first policy to the second service when the first policy is deemed to be applicable to the second service, wherein the applying the first policy provides the first policy to a second policy model using machine learning for processing second data of the second service, generating a second policy for the second service, and implementing the second policy in the second service, wherein the first service and the second service are provided by a single service provider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Raghuraman Gopalan, Lee Begeja, David Crawford Gibbon, Zhu Liu, Yadong Mu, Bernard S. Renger, Behzad Shahraray, Eric Zavesky
  • Patent number: 11329674
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, connecting to network infrastructure to extend a scope of coverage associated with a service provided by the network infrastructure to a communication device, transmitting a first signal at a first frequency included within a frequency band that is detectable by the communication device, subsequent to the transmitting of the first signal, receiving a second signal from the communication device, and establishing, in accordance with the receiving of the second signal, a connection between the network infrastructure and the communication device via a processing system to facilitate the service. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Sangar Dowlatkhah, Zhi Cui
  • Patent number: 11328454
    Abstract: In one example, the present disclosure describes a device, computer-readable medium, and method for enabling secure video sharing by exploiting data sparsity. In one example, the method includes applying a transformation to a video dataset containing a plurality of video samples, to produce a plurality of sparse vectors in a first dimensional space, wherein each sparse vector of the plurality of sparse vectors corresponds to one video sample of the plurality of video samples, and multiplying each sparse vector of the plurality of sparse vectors by a transformation matrix to produce a plurality of reduced vectors in a second dimensional space, wherein the dimension of the second dimensional space is smaller than a dimension of the first dimensional space, and wherein the plurality of reduced vectors in the second dimensional space hides information about the video dataset while preserving relational properties between the plurality of video samples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventor: Raghuraman Gopalan
  • Patent number: 11329710
    Abstract: For the case of multi-transmission point transmissions (TRPs), when a transmission on one of the TRPs fail, the network can receive date from a mobile device such that the network knows immediately that the transmission failed on a network node. After received the failed transmission data, the network can facilitate the mobile device switching from a dual transmission usage between two network devices to a single transmission usage between the network device for which the transmission has not been determined to fail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Salam Akoum, Xiaoyi Wang, Arunabha Ghosh
  • Patent number: 11329813
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a processing system including a processor; and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations including: dividing data provided for storage into data segments; encrypting each data segment of the data segments with an encryption key, thereby creating encrypted data slices; arranging a cluster of sectorized servers in an ordered list of sectorized servers; selecting a first sectorized server from the ordered list of sectorized servers; generating an access key; and sending a first encrypted data slice of the encrypted data slices and the access key to the first sectorized server, wherein the first sectorized server stores the first encrypted data slice in a sector of the first sectorized server, and retrieves the first encrypted data slice from the sector upon presentation of the access key. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Joseph Soryal, Naila Jaoude
  • Patent number: 11329865
    Abstract: When configured, a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) can be used to identify new beams. If CSI-RS based monitoring fails to identify new beams, and no other reference signals (RS) are used for beam management, the user equipment cannot identify a new beam. However, instead of using a 4-step random access channel (RACH) procedure for beam recovery request transmission, a modified 2-step contention-based RACH procedure can saves overhead and reduce latency associated with the 4-step procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Salam Akoum, Arunabha Ghosh, Xiaoyi Wang
  • Patent number: 11330064
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure include, for example, selecting a first edge device of a first network to provide a part of a service to a communication device, establishing a first session between the first edge device and a device of a second network for a duration of the service, wherein the first session is associated with a first portion of an address, establishing a second session between the first edge device and the communication device in accordance with an access technology to facilitate a transfer of first data associated with the first part of the service to the communication device, wherein the second session is associated with a second portion of the address, and wherein the second portion of the address identifies the access technology, and transferring the first data to the communication device in accordance with the address, wherein the address comprises a third portion that identifies the communication device. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Zhi Cui, Sangar Dowlatkhah
  • Patent number: 11330050
    Abstract: A network device includes a processor and a memory. The processor effectuates operations including instantiating an edge share orchestrator that identifies edge devices including a customer device. Edge share orchestrator also determines that the customer device lacks computing power or functionality to perform at least a portion of an existing or augmented service and identifies at least one additional device of the edge devices capable of providing additional computing power or functionality for performing the at least a portion of the existing service or augmented service associated with the customer device. Edge share orchestrator also meshes the additional computing power or functionality of the at least one additional device with the customer device and performs the at least a portion of the existing or augmented service associated with the customer device using the meshed additional computing power or functionality of the at least one additional device and the customer device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Eric Zavesky, Nigel Bradley, David Crawford Gibbon, Timothy Innes, James Pratt
  • Patent number: 11329751
    Abstract: Devices, computer-readable media and methods are disclosed for verifying that an optical transmit/receive device is correctly installed. For example, a processing system including at least one processor may activate a first light source of an optical transmit/receive device of a telecommunication network and detect a receiving of a light from the first light source at a port of an optical add/drop multiplexer of the telecommunication network. The processing system may then verify the optical transmit/receive device and the port of the optical add/drop multiplexer match a network provisioning order, when the receiving of the light from the first light source is detected, and may generate an indication that the optical transmit/receive device is correctly installed, when the optical transmit/receive device and the port of the optical add/drop multiplexer match the network provisioning order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Simon Tse, Martin Birk, Shweta Vachhani, Kathleen Tse
  • Patent number: 11327180
    Abstract: Selective broadcast of corrective vehicle positioning information using a hyper-precise-positioning (HPP) proxy is presented herein. A system can obtain satellite navigation correction data; assign respective portions of the satellite navigation correction data to defined geographical regions to facilitate respective point-to-multipoint wireless broadcasts of the respective portions of the satellite navigation correction data to respective vehicles that have been determined to be located within the defined geographical regions; and distribute, via respective signaling planes, broadcast requests comprising the respective portions of the satellite navigation correction data to respective wireless access point devices to facilitate the respective point-to-multipoint wireless broadcasts of the respective portions of the satellite navigation correction data—such satellite navigation correction data facilitating correction of satellite navigation data that has been received by the respective vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignees: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P., AT&T MOBILITY II LLC
    Inventors: Julius Mueller, Erie Lai Har Lau, Reza Hussain Hussaini, Hendrawan Susanto
  • Patent number: 11329767
    Abstract: The disclosed subject matter is directed towards highly reliable Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) retransmission procedures, including to provide different levels of reliability for Sidelink transmissions. A scheduler node schedule a data transmission by a transmitter node, and can receive (and store) the data packet transmission. If the scheduler node receives a negative acknowledgement (NAK) from the receiver node, the scheduler node can allocate resources to the transmitter node to perform a retransmission of the data packet, and/or retransmit a copy of the data packet from the scheduler node to the receiver node. The scheduler node can inform the receiver node that a retransmission is being sent by the transmitter node and the scheduler node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Xiaoyi Wang, Salam Akoum, Milap Majmundar, Thomas Novlan
  • Publication number: 20220139251
    Abstract: A motivational extended reality system can create and store an identity token for a user. The system can associate, in a data store, the identity token with an input data source. The system can determine an idealized image of the user and can associate the idealized image with the identity token in the data store. The system can receive a real-world goal of the user and can associate the real-world goal with the identity token in the data store. The system can monitor, based upon data received from the input data source, progress towards the real-world goal. The system can determine whether the progress indicates that the real-world goal has been reached or that progress has been made by reaching a milestone associated with the goal. In response to determining that the real-world goal has been reached, the system can allow access to the idealized image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2020
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Marian Sweeney-Dillon, Elizabeth Goldwyn Gibson
  • Publication number: 20220139011
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method of transforming, by a processing system comprising a processor, text comprising a series of characters into a graphic representation, wherein the graphic representation comprises a series of dots arranged in a two-dimensional pattern, wherein the two-dimensional pattern comprises four dots per character, and wherein each dot in the series of dots is one unit away from a preceding dot; and plotting, by the processing system, the series of dots on a two-dimensional graph, thereby creating a unique encoded image of the text. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventor: Changchuan Yin
  • Publication number: 20220138801
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method that includes determining, by a processing system including a processor, that a viewer is viewing primary content for a first time; capturing, by the processing system, an emotive response of the viewer as the primary content is viewed during the first time; determining that the viewer is viewing the primary content at a subsequent time, wherein the subsequent time is later than the first time; detecting the emotive response of the viewer as the primary content is viewed during the subsequent time; retrieving external media responsive to detecting the emotive response; and displaying the external media. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Eric Zavesky, Lee Begeja, David Crawford Gibbon, Mohammed Abdel-Wahab, Jianxiong Dong
  • Publication number: 20220141502
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include obtaining a first media content item comprising a plurality of content segments. For each content segment of the plurality of content segments of the first media content item, comparing the content segment and a prior content segment to identify a content transition, analyzing the content segment to identify a content marker in the content segment, determining a viewing characteristic of the content segment according to the content transition and the content marker, determining if the content segment is unnecessary according to the viewing characteristic, and updating a set of skipping instructions associated with the first media content item responsive to the determining the content segment is unnecessary, and presenting the first media content item at a first device according to the set of skipping instructions associated with the first media content item. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2020
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Mario Kosseifi, Joseph Thomas, Kumar Vadlamudi
  • Publication number: 20220139358
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, detecting a user operating a cross reality headset, receiving a first location of the cross reality headset, providing image content and audio content to the cross reality headset, and receiving a second location of the cross reality headset. Further embodiments can include determining the cross reality headset is stationary based on the first location and the second location resulting in a determination, and providing instructions to the cross reality headset to adjust positioning the image content on a display of the cross reality headset and to provide the audio content according to the determination resulting in an adjustment of the positioning of the image content. The cross reality headset presents the image content according to the adjustment on the display. The cross reality headset provides the audio content. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventor: Kunwar Handa
  • Publication number: 20220136846
    Abstract: Concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to determining optimal routes for vehicular communications. According to one aspect disclosed herein, a route optimization system can obtain a quality of service (“QoS”) requirement, an origin location, and a destination location. The route optimization system also can obtain a key performance indicator (“KPI”). The route optimization system can select a route optimization model to be used for the QoS requirement. The route optimization system can determine, based upon the route optimization model and the key performance indicator, an optimized route from the origin location to the destination location that satisfies the quality of service requirement. The optimized route can be sent to a vehicle-to-everything (“V2X”)-enabled device for use in navigating from the origin location to the destination location while receiving a QoS that satisfies the QoS requirement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2020
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Abhijeet Bhorkar, Mehdi Malboubi, Baofeng Jiang
  • Patent number: 11323423
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method in which a processing system parses a network trace to collect packet information for an encrypted adaptive bite rate (ABR) video stream encoded into a plurality of tracks; detects request packets corresponding to a sequence of requests for video segments to be downloaded at a network client; and determines a traffic volume downloaded at the network client to obtain a sequence of traffic volumes. The processing system identifies, for each of the sequence of traffic volumes, a set of candidate segments each having a size meeting a size-matching criterion; selects a segment from the set of candidate segments to determine a segment sequence meeting an index-matching criterion; and infers characteristics of the sequence of traffic volumes based on the segment sequence. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., The Regents of the University of Michigan
    Inventors: Subhabrata Sen, Shichang Xu, Zhuoqing Morley Mao
  • Patent number: 11323754
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, embodiments comprising obtaining a plurality of original frames for video content, receiving a first viewpoint from a mobile device, and processing the plurality of original frames according to the first viewpoint generating a plurality of first viewpoint frames. Further embodiments include providing the plurality of first viewpoint frames to the mobile device, generating a group of delta frames in response to receiving a change in viewpoint from the mobile device, and providing the group of delta frames to the mobile device. The mobile device processes a portion of the plurality of first viewpoint frames according to the group of delta frames to generate a group of second viewpoint frames and the mobile device presents the group of second viewpoint frames. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Shu Shi, Varun Gupta, Rittwik Jana, John F. Murray, Michael Hwang
  • Patent number: 11323504
    Abstract: A method and system for centralized control of user devices is disclosed. The method for centralized control of user devices via universal IP services registrar includes receiving a request to register a user device for a plurality of services, registering the user device for the plurality of services by creating a user settings profile for the user for each of the plurality of services, receiving data from the plurality of registered services, and transmitting received data to the user device in accordance with the user profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Steven A. Siegel, Reuben Klein, Leopold B. Strahs
  • Patent number: 11321119
    Abstract: Task delegation and cooperation for automated assistants is presented. A method comprises receiving, at a centralized support center that is in contact with a plurality of automated assistants including a first automated assistant and a second automated assistant, a request to perform a task on behalf of an individual, formulating, at the centralized support center, the task as a plurality of sub-tasks including a first sub-task and a second sub-task, delegating, at the centralized support center, the first sub-task to the first automated assistant, based on a determination at the centralized support center that the first automated assistant is capable of performing the first sub-task, and delegating, at the centralized support center, the second sub-task to the second automated assistant, based on a determination at the centralized support center that the second automated assistant is capable of performing the second sub-task.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Raghuraman Gopalan, Lee Begeja, David Crawford Gibbon, Eric Zavesky
  • Patent number: 11321256
    Abstract: A graphics processing unit may, in accordance with a kernel, determine that at least a first packet is written to a memory buffer of the graphics processing unit by a network interface card via a direct memory access, process the at least the first packet in accordance with the kernel, and provide a first notification to a central processing unit that the at least the first packet is processed in accordance with the kernel. The graphics processing unit may further determine that at least a second packet is written to the memory buffer by the network interface card via the direct memory access, process the at least the second packet in accordance with the kernel, where the kernel comprises a persistent kernel, and provide a second notification to the central processing unit that the at least the second packet is processed in accordance with the kernel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Brian S. Amento, Kermit Hal Purdy, Minsung Jang
  • Patent number: 11323549
    Abstract: A method includes receiving, at a customer premises equipment (CPE) device from a data source, media content requested by a media device. The method includes determining, at the CPE device, a number of concurrent media connections to establish to the media device based on a workload of the customer premises device. The method includes establishing the number of concurrent communication connections between the CPE device and the media device. The method also includes sending the media content as data packets via data packet streams to the media device from the customer premises equipment device. A data packet stream of the data packet streams is sent via each communication connection of the concurrent communication connections. Each data packet stream includes less than all data packets of the media content, and the media device processes the data packets received via the data packet streams to generate media content output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventor: Christopher Baldwin
  • Patent number: 11323325
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, determining, an application requirement for a server of a data center geographically separated from a central location. A configuration file adapted for the server according to the application requirement is obtained at the central location and a host processor located at the data center is selected according to the application requirement. A static IP address preassigned to an administrative portion of the selected host processor is identified. The selected host processor is initialized remotely over a wide area network via the administrative port without utilizing any software resources pre-existing at the data center. The initializing configures the selected host processor according to the configuration file to service the application requirement. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Srinandan Hullahalli, Sunil Maloo, Anestis Karasaridis, Robert Roschewsk
  • Patent number: 11323890
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, collecting and storing data about a communication environment including one or more communication networks wherein respective communication networks of the one or more communication networks employ respective communication technologies for communication with remote user devices in the communication environment, providing traffic forecasts of communication traffic, creating importance layers for potential build locations for equipment of the one or more communication networks, identifying desirable build locations among the potential build locations of the one or more communication networks based on the traffic forecasts of communication traffic and the importance layers, receiving user input defining planning parameters for the communication environment and determining respective target goal values for respective build options for the one or more communication networks based on the planning parameters, the identified desirable build locations and the
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Kathleen Meier-Hellstern, Laurie Bigler, Arun Jotshi, Michael Orth, Phyllis Weiss, Ravi Raina, Wenjie Zhao
  • Patent number: 11323605
    Abstract: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, receiving location information associated with a mobile communication device, determining a first location of the mobile communication device based on the location information, selecting a first camera from a group of cameras based on the determined first location, receiving at least one first image from the selected first camera that captures at least a portion of the first location, performing image recognition on at least one second image to identify a user associated with the mobile communication device, selecting another camera from the group of cameras based on a determined position of the identified user, and receiving at least another image from the selected other camera. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: James Fan, Thomas Barrett, Jennifer K. Lam
  • Patent number: 11323343
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes identifying, by a packet analyzer, one or more silence packets within a network and initiating, by the packet analyzer, a replacement of the one or more silence packets with one or more performance silence packets. The one or more performance silence packets are transmitted between a first node of the network and a second node of the network during a silence period. The method further includes receiving, by the packet analyzer, information associated with the one or more performance silence packets; and analyzing, by the packet analyzer, a connection between the first node of the network and the second node of the network using the information associated with the one or more performance silence packets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: James Gordon Beattie, Jr., Haywood S. Peitzer, Jeffrey A. Krinsky
  • Patent number: 11323896
    Abstract: A method, where the method includes discovering an event where at least one device is offline and instantiating an emergency mode causing the at least one device to permit data or message aggregation. The method further includes defining a community of devices including an identity of the at least one device and establishing communication between the at least one device and a mobile aggregation device. The method further includes when the mobile aggregation device is in communication with the at least one device, aggregating a payload of a message or data from the at least one device and the community having an artificial intelligence instantiated as a virtual network function or network device, the community communicating with the mobile aggregation device to receive data from the at least one device, and the artificial intelligence being configured to assess the event based on the data obtained by the mobile aggregation device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Jason Decuir, Robert Gratz, Eric Zavesky, James Pratt
  • Publication number: 20220131909
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method in which a processing system authenticates a communication device roaming from a home network that does not support Voice over Long Term Evolution (VoLTE) roaming, and in which the processing system communicates with a packet gateway (PGW) of an evolved packet core (EPC) separate from the processing system, to facilitate communication between the communication device and a subsystem of the EPC; the subsystem emulates the home network to provide a VoLTE roaming service to the communication device. The communication device also engages in a session initiation protocol (SIP) with the subsystem to initiate a communication session with the subsystem; in accordance with the communication session, the subsystem provides the VoLTE roaming service to the communication device. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicants: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Mario Manuel Jardon, Cameron Dunn
  • Publication number: 20220131922
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, selecting a first video service model according to a server hostname determined according to transport layer security (TLS) transaction data associated with a video session transmitted over a network, calculating a plurality of data delivery statistics from the TLS transaction data according to the first video service model, where the plurality of data delivery statistics includes session-level statistics over the video session, transaction-level statistics over each transaction, and temporal feature statistics over intervals of the video session, determining a quality of experience (QoE) metric for the video session from the plurality of data delivery statistics according to a course-grained data QoE model, and adjusting a first network element of the network responsive to the determining the QoE metric for the video session. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2020
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicants: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Emir Halepovic, Tarun Mangla, Ellen Zegura, Mostafa Ammar
  • Publication number: 20220132435
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining a network parameter associated with a first network device. The first network device transmits a first portion of a first group of wireless signals associated with the first network device to a first group of communication devices located in a first geographical area. Further embodiments can include detecting a second group of communication devices in a second geographical area, and determining the network parameter does not exceed a network parameter threshold resulting in a first determination. Additional embodiments can include amplifying a second portion of the first group of wireless signals associated with the first network device based on the first determination resulting in a first group of amplified wireless signals, and transmitting the first group of amplified wireless signals to a first portion of the second group of communication devices. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicants: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Iftekhar Alam, Bhumit Patel, Wasib Khallil, Jonathan Chang
  • Publication number: 20220132192
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device that includes a processing system including a processor; and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations such as collecting historical data on viewership of media content; gathering metadata of events in the media content; training a scoring model on the metadata and historical data, wherein the scoring model ranks placement choices and provide a score for each placement choice for advertisements within the media content; and evaluating a placement choice for ad completion rate, thereby generating an evaluation of the placement choice. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2021
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Rajat Malik, Subhabrata Majumdar