AT&T Patent Applications

SYSTEM FOR COORDINATION WITH DRIVERLESS VEHICLES FOR PUBLIC SAFETY

Granted: April 18, 2024
Application Number: 20240127638
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, constructing a vehicle record for a driverless vehicle that indicates capabilities of the vehicle for responding in an emergency; receiving an alert regarding an incident; analyzing a database to identify available vehicles for responding to the incident; selecting a vehicle from the available vehicles in accordance with selection criteria including a current vehicle location and capabilities of the vehicle; directing the…

METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ASSISTING WIRELESS ACCESS POINTS WITH SATELLITE CONTROL PLANE

Granted: April 18, 2024
Application Number: 20240129831
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining an image of a location that includes a wireless access point; analyzing the image to determine a potential signal interference from an object that has moved into a position with respect to the wireless access point; and generating routing instructions for wireless communications according to the potential signal interference. Other embodiments are disclosed.

METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND DEVICES FOR IMPLEMENTING CARRIER AGGREGATION FOR UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES OVER MOBILE NETWORKS

Granted: April 18, 2024
Application Number: 20240129813
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, identifying a user end device comprises an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) based on user end device information, determining the UAV supports carrier aggregation, and obtaining a list of the group of neighboring base stations from the UAV. Additional embodiments can include, based on the list, identifying a primary frequency channel of a primary base station and identifying a group of secondary frequency channels associated with a…

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING OPERATIONAL ASPECTS OF NETWORK EQUIPMENT AND DEVICES

Granted: April 18, 2024
Application Number: 20240129763
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving data associated with network equipment operating in a communication system, determining from the data inferential parameters that describe operations of the network equipment; and determining, from the inferential parameters, one or more behavioral profiles of one or more network elements of the network equipment. Other embodiments are disclosed.

METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND DEVICES FOR MIGRATING A GHOST SOFTWARE APPLICATION OVER A NETWORK WITH SUBSCRIBER IDENTITY MODULE (SIM) AUTHENTICATION

Granted: April 18, 2024
Application Number: 20240129744
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving first user-generated input, over a communication network, from a communication device that indicates a request to provision a ghost software application on the communication device, and provisioning, over the communication network, an anchor software application on a subscriber identity module (SIM) associated with the ghost software application. Further embodiments can include receiving second user-generated input,…

WIRELESS NETWORK CALL BLOCKING CONTROL

Granted: April 18, 2024
Application Number: 20240129703
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device, comprising: a processing system including a processor; and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations, the operations comprising: detecting that a 911 call had been made on a carrier network by the device, the device having associated therewith a telephone number; responsive to the detecting that the 911 call had been made, sending a…

SATELLITE EMERGENCY COMMUNICATION ABUSE DETECTION AND PREVENTION

Granted: April 18, 2024
Application Number: 20240129702
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving, by a processing system including a processor via a satellite, an emergency communication that was transmitted from an end user device to the satellite; and determining, by the processing system, a legitimacy of the emergency communication according to an analysis based on various information such as a diligence query or challenge sent to the end user device by the satellite, a history of emergency communications…

OPEN SERVICE-BASED ARCHITECTURE (SBA) FRAMEWORK INCLUDING UNIFIED POLICY AND CHARGING CONTROL (PCC), SELF-ADAPTIVE NETWORK, AND/OR ON-DEMAND SERVICE MANAGEMENT

Granted: April 18, 2024
Application Number: 20240129697
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example: obtaining first network performance data characterizing a first wireless network that uses one technology, wherein the first wireless network provides one or more users of a plurality of users access to a collection of servers that enable services; obtaining first service performance data characterizing a first service of the services that are enabled by the collection of servers; obtaining first service requirements of the…

PUBLIC SAFETY ANSWERING POINT (PSAP) ACCESS FROM A PRIVATE CORE NETWORK

Granted: April 18, 2024
Application Number: 20240129693
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device, comprising: a processing system including a processor; and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations, the operations comprising: directing a ping message via a private core network to a public safety answering point (PSAP); determining whether a ping response is received from the PSAP, resulting in a determination; and responsive to…

PREDICTIVE ZERO-TOUCH NETWORK AND SYSTEMS RECONCILIATION USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND/OR MACHINE LEARNING

Granted: April 18, 2024
Application Number: 20240129201
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining first information indicative of one or more historical operating characteristics of a network; obtaining second information indicative of one or more current operating characteristics of the network; comparing, via a first computer-implemented process that requires no manual intervention, the first information to the second information to make a prediction of a potential future network event, resulting in a predicted…

METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING SYNTHETIC EMERGENCY SCENE RECONSTRUCTION

Granted: April 18, 2024
Application Number: 20240127542
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example analyzing emergency communications that were transmitted from end user devices; determining that a group of the emergency communications that corresponds to a group of the end user devices is associated with an emergency event; extracting descriptions of the emergency event from the group of the emergency communications; retrieving mapping data of a location associated with the emergency event; and generating a graphical…

Guidance Rule-Based Compliance Management

Granted: April 18, 2024
Application Number: 20240127263
The concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to guidance rule-based compliance management. According to one aspect disclosed herein, an integrated technology catalog system (“system”) can provide an interface through which a technology catalog can be accessed to view a technology product and evaluate the technology product in a given context. The system can receive, via the interface, a request to evaluate the technology product in the given context. In response to the…

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SECURING A BRAIN-COMPUTER INTERFACE

Granted: April 18, 2024
Application Number: 20240126844
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a non-transitory, machine-readable medium, including executable instructions that, when executed by a processing system including a processor, facilitate performance of operations of: receiving signals from a brain-computer interface to authenticate a user of the brain-computer interface through a user interface; responsive to successful authenticating the user, permitting the user to operate a target computer system by the…

APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING AN ASSESSMENT OF INTERACTIONS IN THE METAVERSE

Granted: April 11, 2024
Application Number: 20240118784
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining, by a processing system including a processor, an indication of an assertion involving a first avatar of a first user, assessing, by the processing system and based on the obtaining, a validity of the assertion relative to a threshold, and authorizing, by the processing system and based on the assessing, a first action to be taken by the first avatar, a second action to be taken by a second avatar of a second user, or…

AUTOMATIC TROUBLESHOOTING SYSTEM FOR USER-LEVEL PERFORMANCE DEGRADATION IN CELLULAR SERVICES

Granted: April 11, 2024
Application Number: 20240121636
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, training a cell-level machine learning model to predict a likelihood of a cell site in a cellular network having service issues that impact customers of the cellular network, training a user equipment (UE) level machine learning model using output information from the cell-level machine learning model and historical information about UE-level performance metrics, receiving, from a customer associated with a UE device operating…

AUTOMATED AI/ML MANAGEMENT OF USER EXPERIENCES: SYSTEM AND METHOD

Granted: April 11, 2024
Application Number: 20240121628
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, categorizing users of a cellular network according to a plurality of user categories, identifying, by a machine learning model, a service degradation in the cellular network, identifying at least one affected user, the at least one affected user being affected by the service degradation, identifying one or more affected user categories including the at least one affected user, identifying potentially affected users, the…

APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING DYNAMIC BADGES AND IDENTITIES

Granted: April 11, 2024
Application Number: 20240121608
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, authenticating a credential of a first user of a first device, based on the authenticating, providing the first user with an option to select a badge from a plurality of badges via the first device, based on the providing of the option, obtaining a selection of a first badge included in the plurality of badges from the first device, resulting in a selected badge, and based on the obtaining of the selection, transferring an…

UNIVERSAL UNCREWED AERIAL VEHICLE (UAV) COLONY WIRELINE WIRELESS ORCHESTRATION AND AUTOMATION MANAGEMENT

Granted: April 11, 2024
Application Number: 20240119845
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, determining a need to offload traffic for an access network based on communications from an access mobility function (AMF), identifying a colony of drones to address the need to offload traffic for the access network, deploying the colony of drones to a coverage area corresponding to the access network, and providing end-to-end (E2E) orchestration across a core network and the colony of drones. Other embodiments are disclosed.

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR QUANTUM DIGITAL TWINNING AND PUBLIC SAFETY MANAGEMENT

Granted: April 11, 2024
Application Number: 20240119550
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example a device having a processing system including a processor; and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations of: creating a quantum digital twinning model for a public safety event; generating a map view of an area of the public safety event, wherein the map view shows images determined by the quantum digital twinning model; providing…

Automated Software Code Validation and Deployment

Granted: April 11, 2024
Application Number: 20240119159
Automated software code validation and deployment can include obtaining software code. The software code can be created via interactions with a computing device. In response to obtaining the software code and prior to receiving a request to deploy the software code, a security scan can be performed on the software code. After performing the security scan on the software code, a request to deploy the software code can be detected and in response to detecting the request, it can be…