AT&T Patent Applications

IDENTIFYING AERIAL CELLS OF A NETWORK BASED ON DIRECTION OF ARRIVAL (DOA)

Granted: April 11, 2024
Application Number: 20240121673
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, deploying UAVs to a geographic area based on a need to offload traffic from a terrestrial base station, instructing the base station to enforce a UE served by the base station to determine a DoA of a received pilot signal emitted from each neighboring cell and to provide determined DoAs in a measurement report to the base station, obtaining the report from the base station, wherein the report includes DoA information for a…

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…

NULLIFYING BIOMETRICS

Granted: April 11, 2024
Application Number: 20240121239
Artificial biometric traits self-nullify due to natural physiological processes. Biometric enrollment and authentication may then be based on a life associated with the self-nullifying biometric trait. Once the life is expected to have expired, no further authentication may be performed until a new artificial biometric is applied.

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…

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…

PATH ROUTING IN A MOBILE NETWORK

Granted: April 4, 2024
Application Number: 20240114426
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example: obtaining first information identifying a first path between a source node located in a network and a destination node located in the network, wherein the first path comprises a first plurality of nodes including at least one first intermediate node between the source node and the destination node, and wherein the first information comprises first latency information that identifies a first travel latency that exists on the…

APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING AN APPLICATION AND SERVICE AWARE FREQUENCY BAND SELECTION

Granted: April 4, 2024
Application Number: 20240114570
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, determining that a first communication session involving a client device and utilizing a first Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi) frequency band has concluded, and based on the determining, causing a second communication session involving the client device to utilize a second Wi-Fi frequency band that is different from the first Wi-Fi frequency band. Other embodiments are disclosed.

INTELLIGENT MACHINE LEARNING (ML)-ENABLED END-TO-END (E2E) AUTOMATED ORCHESTRATION FOR COLLABORATIVE NEXT-GENERATION WIRELESS WIRELINE CONVERGENCE (WWC)

Granted: April 4, 2024
Application Number: 20240114392
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a system including a cross-segment slice controller (CSSC) configured to interface with a software-defined network (SDN) controller and a software-defined radio (SDR) controller. The SDN controller may be associated with a core network and the SDR controller may be associated with a radio access network (RAN). The system further includes a machine learning (ML) component configured to obtain and analyze data regarding the core…

AUTOMATED AI/ML EVENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

Granted: April 4, 2024
Application Number: 20240114362
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving, from a machine learning model, information about an event causing a service degradation in a cellular network, wherein the event is external to the cellular network, determining one or more event categories associated with the event causing the service degradation, determining, based on the one or more event categories, likely affected customers, the likely affected customers being likely to experience the service…

MOBILE SUBSCRIBER AUTHENTICATION AND RISK EVALUATION SYSTEM AND PROCESS

Granted: April 4, 2024
Application Number: 20240114342
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device in a messaging core, 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 including receiving a short messaging system (SMS) message from an application-to-person (A2P) service to a mobile device of a subscriber; verifying an origin of the SMS message; identifying the SMS message as…

Security Management Service for Internet-of-Things Devices

Granted: April 4, 2024
Application Number: 20240114339
A security management service for Internet-of-things devices can obtain, from an Internet-of-things device and via a cellular network, a request by the Internet-of-things device to register with the cellular network, the Internet-of-things device including a universal integrated circuit card that stores a unique identifier for the Internet-of-things device and a cellular transceiver. The security management service can obtain behavioral data describing activity associated with the…

Event-Based Wireless Emergency Alerts

Granted: April 4, 2024
Application Number: 20240114326
Concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to event-based wireless emergency alerts (“WEAs”). According to one aspect disclosed herein, a WEA-capable device can receive an event-based wireless emergency alert that includes an event code and alert content. The WEA-capable device can parse the event code from the event-based WEA. The WEA-capable device can determine, via execution of an event-based WEA function, a WEA format based upon the event code. The WEA-capable…

NETWORK RESILIENCY AND IMPACT COORDINATION

Granted: April 4, 2024
Application Number: 20240113934
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, monitoring status of a network configured to provide end-to-end delivery of services to priority user equipment authorized according to a prioritized class of service and other user equipment not authorized for the prioritized class of service. The prioritized class of service extends a reserved network capacity for end-to-end delivery of a service via first domain including first network slices and a second domain including…

METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND PROCEDURES FOR QUANTUM SECURE ECOSYSTEMS

Granted: April 4, 2024
Application Number: 20240113869
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving a first request from a first communication orchestrator of a first protected environment to provide a secure and authenticated connection between a first resource of the first protected environment and a second resource of a second protected environment, accessing first encryption information from the first communication orchestrator and second encryption information from a second communication orchestrator of the…

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING DOMAIN NAME SYSTEM RECORDS

Granted: April 4, 2024
Application Number: 20240111749
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device including 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: receiving domain name system (DNS) record changes; identifying errors from the DNS record changes; discarding the DNS record changes responsive to the errors identified; scheduling the DNS record changes responsive to a lack of errors…

INTELLIGENT INTERCEPTOR FOR SAAS CLOUD MIGRATION AND INTEGRATION

Granted: April 4, 2024
Application Number: 20240111508
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a non-transitory machine-readable medium comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processing system including a processor, facilitate performance of operations, the operations comprising: receiving by a selected one of a plurality of containers incoming traffic from a legacy application, the legacy application having been associated with a migrated application prior to the migrated application having been…

Creating Scent Models and Using Scent Models in Cross-Reality Environments

Granted: March 28, 2024
Application Number: 20240104858
Creating scent models and using scent models in cross-reality environments can include capturing experience data identifying a scent detected and a context in which the scent was detected. The experience data can be provided to a scent modeling service to generate a scent model that can represent perceived scents and perceived scent intensities for a user. The scent model can be used to generate cross-reality session data to be used in a cross-reality session presented by a cross-reality…