AT&T Patent Applications

MAC ADDRESSES CAPTURING VIRTUAL-TO-PHYSICAL ASSOCIATIONS WITHIN VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS

Granted: April 24, 2025
Application Number: 20250130837
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, identifying a request to initiate a virtual machine including a virtual network interface on a physical host processing system that includes a physical network interface. A location reference to a physical location of the physical network interface is determined and an adapted media access control (MAC) address is adapted to incorporate the location reference according to an association between the virtual network interface and…

QUALITY OF EXPERIENCE-BASED USER HANDOFF POLICY

Granted: April 17, 2025
Application Number: 20250126532
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving a handover request from a user equipment (UE) device in a mobility network, wherein the handover request identifies a target cell for handing over radio communication with the UE device from a source cell, wherein the identifying is based on the handover request, determining a usage level of the UE device, wherein the usage level comprises one of performance-sensitive traffic and performance-tolerant traffic, selecting…

MONITORING BANDWIDTH UTILIZATION ON AN INTERNATIONAL MOBILE SUBSCRIBER IDENTITY (IMSI) BASIS

Granted: April 17, 2025
Application Number: 20250126458
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include receiving a first data set related to a first International Mobile Subscriber Identifier (IMSI) from a wireless core system, tidying the first data set by building a bandwidth matrix representing each bandwidth usage value with respect to a selected time-stamp and one or more flow IDs associated with the first IMSI, repeating the receiving and tidying operations with respect to a plurality of data sets related to remaining IMSIs, and…

METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND DEVICES FOR RECOMMENDING MITIGATION OF INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT) CYBER THREATS USING GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Granted: April 17, 2025
Application Number: 20250126147
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining a group of threat research reports, obtaining a group of indicators of compromise (IOCs), and monitoring a network of Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Further embodiments can include determining a group of possible malware on the network based on the monitoring of the network, and generating a network security recommendation based on the group of threat research reports based on the group of threat research reports,…

APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING A HEALTH CHECK IN RESPECT OF COMMUNICATION NETWORKS AND SYSTEMS, INCLUSIVE OF AN OUTER LOOP HEALTH CHECK

Granted: April 17, 2025
Application Number: 20250126042
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, examining first actions imposed as part of a maintenance activity in respect of a communication network while the communication network is subjected to second actions as part of the maintenance activity, determining, based on the examining, that the first actions, in whole or in part, fail to adhere to a threshold, a requirement, or a specification, and based on the determining, reversing at least one action of the first…

ARCHITECTURE AND SIGNALING TO ENHANCE UPLINK PROCESSING IN SPLIT RADIO ACCESS NETWORK (RAN) DEPLOYMENTS

Granted: April 17, 2025
Application Number: 20250125921
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method that includes receiving, by a processing system, an uplink signal at a radio unit (RU) communicating over a fronthaul interface with a distributed unit (DU) of a communication network; receiving a demodulated reference signal (DMRS) configuration at the RU; performing a beamforming procedure at the RU for one or more beams generated at the RU; and determining, in accordance with an option selected by the DU, whether to…

APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING SOLUTIONS TO OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS VIA MODELING THROUGH NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING AND MACHINE LEARNING

Granted: April 10, 2025
Application Number: 20250119350
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining a natural language statement of an optimization problem that is to be solved, analyzing the natural language statement to select a template included within a plurality of templates, generating a definition for the optimization problem using the template, constructing a model in accordance with the definition, resulting in a constructed model, and validating the constructed model, resulting in a validated model. Other…

APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR MANAGING AND REGULATING CAPACITY AND INTER-FREQUENCY RELATIONS IN COMMUNICATION NETWORKS AND SYSTEMS

Granted: April 10, 2025
Application Number: 20250119886
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining indications of a respective priority level of each cell of a plurality of cells in respect of supporting Category M (CATM) communication services, determining, at a first point in time, that CATM is active in a first cell of the plurality of cells, resulting in a first determination, determining, based on the first determination, that a utilization of resources of the first cell is greater than a first threshold,…

VALIDATING THE INTEGRATION OF NEW CARRIER COMPONENTS AT ACCESS POINT EQUIPMENT

Granted: April 10, 2025
Application Number: 20250119758
The technologies described herein are generally directed to validating the integration of new carrier components at base station equipment, e.g., in a fifth generation (5G) network or other next generation networks. For example, a method described herein can include, confirming based on installation data, an installation milestone of an installation of a carrier component at base station equipment, resulting in a confirmed milestone. The method can further include, based on the confirmed…

HELMET WITH WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM CONNECTION CAPABILITIES AND ASSOCIATED COMMUNICATION MECHANISMS

Granted: April 10, 2025
Application Number: 20250119711
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a system, comprising: a message-sending device comprising a first processing system including a first processor, wherein the message-sending device further comprises a first wireless communication mechanism, wherein the first processing system is configured to receive an input command, wherein the input command is provided by a person who is coaching a player, wherein the person who is coaching the player is located on a…

MANAGING MOBILE DEVICE VOICE OVER WI-FI HANDOVER

Granted: April 3, 2025
Application Number: 20250113280
The disclosed technology is directed towards preventing a handover of a Wi-Fi call to a Fifth Generation (5G) standalone cellular network. In one alternative, a 5G standalone usage setting is disabled on a mobile device when Wi-Fi calling is enabled on the mobile device. In another alternative, a 5G standalone usage setting is disabled on a mobile device when Wi-Fi calling is enabled on the mobile device and the mobile device is connected to a Wi-Fi network, which facilitates camping on…

USING DYNAMIC THRESHOLDS FOR NON-MOBILITY HANDOVERS IN A FIFTH GENERATION (5G) OR OTHER NEXT GENERATION NETWORK

Granted: April 3, 2025
Application Number: 20250113269
The technologies described herein are generally directed to modeling radio wave propagation in a fifth generation (5G) network or other next generation networks. For example, a method described herein can include, for a network application, identifying, by a system comprising a processor, a first performance characteristic of first base station equipment, wherein the first base station equipment is actively communicating with a user equipment via a first network connection. The method…

SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO FACILITATE SERVICE CONTINUITY FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM HANDOVERS

Granted: April 3, 2025
Application Number: 20250113261
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, determining, for a network node, one or more neighbor network nodes relative to the network node; determining, for each of the one or more neighbor network nodes, whether support is provided for a particular type of end-user device; and generating, for the network node, a neighbor cell relation table, wherein the neighbor cell relation table includes the one or more neighbor network nodes, and wherein the neighbor cell relation…

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FRAUD DETECTION THROUGH NETWORK MONITORING

Granted: April 3, 2025
Application Number: 20250113193
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: collecting data traffic of one or more network devices of a user, wherein the data traffic is associated with multiple channels of interactions; building a channel-specific user signature and a cross-channel user signature of normal…

QUANTUM ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE POSITIONING SYSTEM IN A NEXT GENERATION PUBLIC SAFETY NETWORK

Granted: April 3, 2025
Application Number: 20250113165
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 a smart contract for tracking a position of a mobile device from a quantum blockchain; issuing a token uniquely identifying location data for the position of the mobile device; receiving location data including the token from…

PRIVACY, PERMISSION, AND USER SAFETY MANAGEMENT VIRTUAL ASSISTANT FOR A COMMUNICATION SESSION

Granted: April 3, 2025
Application Number: 20250112927
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining a first user profile associated with a first user, the first user profile comprising a first privacy rule; obtaining a second user profile associated with a second user, the second user profile comprising a second privacy rule; determining which of the first privacy rule or the second privacy rule is more restrictive; setting for a first extended reality (XR) communication session a third privacy rule, the third…

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING ANOMALOUS CHANGES IN DATA STREAMS AND GENERATING TEXTUAL EXPLANATIONS

Granted: April 3, 2025
Application Number: 20250112841
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: receiving a series of values from a data stream generated by one or more equipment in a communications network; creating a first window of values received before a first point in time and a second window of values received on or after…

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EVALUATING GENERATIVE LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS

Granted: April 3, 2025
Application Number: 20250111237
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device that facilitates obtaining a plurality of prompts from a selected subject matter domain of a database configured to measure an effectiveness of a generative large language model (LLM) to distinguish variances between each prompt of the plurality of prompts; supplying the plurality of prompts to the LLM; receiving respective responses to each of the prompts from the LLM; transforming each of the prompts and respective…

APPARATUSES AND METHODS TO BALANCE LOAD IN COMMUNICATION NETWORKS BASED ON AN ALLOCATION OF RESOURCES TO COMMUNICATION DEVICES

Granted: March 27, 2025
Application Number: 20250105942
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining a first indication of a first count of resource blocks in a first cell in which the device is located, obtaining a second indication of a second count of resource blocks allocated to the device, obtaining a third indication of a reference signal received power (RSRP) value for the device, obtaining a fourth indication of a received signal strength indicator (RSSI) value for the device, computing a first reference…

METHOD FOR MOBILE SERVICE CHAINING VIA HYBRID NETWORK RESOURCES SWITCHING

Granted: March 27, 2025
Application Number: 20250106909
A method includes receiving a request for a communication session from a user device, identifying a first resource from a plurality of resources, wherein the first resource is associated with a first service control layer for a radio access network and wherein the plurality of resources includes at least one virtual network function (VNF), identifying a second resource from the plurality of resources, wherein the second resource is associated with a second service control layer for LTE…