AT&T Patent Applications

APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING ENHANCEMENTS OF A USER EXPERIENCE IN RESPECT OF A RADIO ACCESS TECHNOLOGY SELECTION AND UTILIZATION

Granted: March 20, 2025
Application Number: 20250098007
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, establishing a communication session utilizing a first radio access technology (RAT), obtaining data associated with a performance of the communication session via the first RAT, analyzing the data to determine that the performance of the communication session may be enhanced utilizing a second RAT that is different from the first RAT, resulting in a first determination, and based on the first determination, causing the…

SUB-BAND SELECTION AT CELLULAR BASE STATION FOR NON-OVERLAPPED OR PARTIALLY OVERLAPPED FULL DUPLEX OPERATION

Granted: March 20, 2025
Application Number: 20250097854
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, determining a self-interference channel response of a transceiver of a mobile base station having a transmitter and a receiver. The self-interference channel response spans multiple sub-bands of a predetermined mobile cellular frequency channel. A first sub-band of the multiple sub-bands is identified according to the self-interference channel response and, an estimate is determined, at the receiver, of a first coupled transmit…

TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES FOR HETEROGENEOUS TERRESTRIAL AND SATELLITE NETWORKS

Granted: March 20, 2025
Application Number: 20250097801
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining first data associated with a plurality of user equipment devices that are communicating with at least one access point of a wireless terrestrial network, wherein the first data indicates a respective location of each user equipment device, a respective in-use wireless frequency that each user equipment device is using for communicating with the at least one access point, and one or more respective potential wireless…

METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND DEVICES FOR FEDERATED BLOCKCHAIN-ENABLED HANDOVER AUTHENTICATION

Granted: March 20, 2025
Application Number: 20250097789
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, authenticating, by a federated blockchain controller, a user equipment located within a cell coverage area of a network that includes heterogeneous cells. The federated blockchain controller can provide encryption data to the user equipment and corresponding authentication information to one or more multi-access edge computing (MEC) devices associated with the heterogeneous cells to enable secure and efficient handovers for the…

APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING NETWORK CONNECTIVITY BASED ON IDENTIFIED CONDITIONS

Granted: March 20, 2025
Application Number: 20250097737
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining a first report comprising first data, obtaining a second report comprising second data, analyzing at least the first data and the second data to identify characteristics of an environment where a communication device is located, based at least in part on the characteristics, determining whether dual connectivity is appropriate for providing a communication service to the communication device, resulting in a…

BULK DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM

Granted: March 20, 2025
Application Number: 20250097694
The system allows real time collection and processing of massive data from many network elements. It has an elastic architecture that scales horizontally to support different network sizes. The system in a uniform data format for downstream consumption. It employs a pub/sub data distribution mechanism that supports multiple concurrent downstream subscribers efficiently in real-time.

Correlating Compromised Home Internet of Things Devices With Distributed Denial of Service Attacks

Granted: March 20, 2025
Application Number: 20250097262
A distributed denial of service (“DDoS”) attack profiler can determine a plurality of DDoS attack properties associated with a DDoS attack that utilizes an Internet of Things (“IoT”) device operating in communication with a home gateway. The DDoS attack profiler can create a DDoS attack profile and can provide a DDoS attack report based upon the DDoS attack profile to a correlator. An IoT device profiler can determine a plurality of IoT device properties and can create, based…

APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR MONITORING AND MANAGING MESSAGES AND MESSAGING CONTENT

Granted: March 20, 2025
Application Number: 20250097182
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, identifying a first message composed by a first user on a first user equipment that is directed to a second user of a second user equipment, identifying a preference of the second user, determining that a first content of the first message composed by the first user departs from the preference of the second user in an amount greater than a threshold, and providing, based on the determining, guidance to the first user for…

Providing and Using a Digital Asset Delivery Service

Granted: March 20, 2025
Application Number: 20250095060
Providing and using a digital asset delivery service can include obtaining a digital asset delivery request that identifies a digital asset that is to be provided to a recipient device, the recipient device, and delivery requirements associated with providing the digital asset to the recipient device. A data source and a network resource via which the data source is to provide the digital asset to the recipient device can be determined, where the data source and the network resource are…

METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND DEVICES FOR DYNAMIC POWER ALLOCATION TO A BASE STATION IN MOBILE NETWORKS

Granted: March 13, 2025
Application Number: 20250088979
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, generating a multi-user (MU) multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) group including a first group of communication devices. The MU-MIMO group is associated with a base station. Further embodiments can include determining a first group data streams associated with the MU-MIMO group that is transmitted from the base station to the first group of communication devices, and determining a wireless signal associated with each data…

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING NON-TERRESTRIAL CELLS AND MANAGING PHYSICAL CELL IDENTITY COLLISION AND NEIGHBORING LIST INTEGRITY IN A HETEROGENEOUS TERRESTRIAL AND SATELLITE WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS

Granted: March 13, 2025
Application Number: 20250088917
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method including receiving first neighbor cell information from a first user equipment (UE) operating in a first terrestrial service cell, where the first neighbor cell information includes a first physical cell identification (PCI) of a first neighbor cell and a cell type indicator detected by the first user equipment. The method further includes generating a database that cross-references the first PCI, the cell type…

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ASSOCIATING WI-FI WITH SPECIFIC SERVICES

Granted: March 13, 2025
Application Number: 20250088913
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a mobile device, with 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: initializing a wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) radio; checking whether a Wi-Fi connection with a Wi-Fi access point is available; establishing a secure session with a border gateway via the Wi-Fi connection responsive to the…

Detecting and Mitigating Denial of Service Attacks Over Home Gateway Network Address Translation

Granted: March 13, 2025
Application Number: 20250088532
Aspects of detecting and mitigating denial of service (“DoS”) attacks over home gateway network address translation (“NAT”) are disclosed herein. According to one aspect disclosed herein, a home gateway system can detect that a NAT table is overpopulated. In response to detecting that the NAT table is overpopulated, the home gateway system can determine a mitigation action to be performed. The home gateway system can then perform the mitigation action in an attempt to mitigate an…

CENTRALIZED METHOD FOR COMPUTING BYPASS/FRR (FAST RE-ROUTE) TUNNELS

Granted: March 13, 2025
Application Number: 20250088458
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining for a first path carrying first network traffic a corresponding first alternate path; obtaining for a second path carrying second network traffic a corresponding second alternate path, at least a first portion of the first alternate path being the same as at least a second portion of the second alternate path; responsive to a first detected failure on the first path, causing communication of first re-directed network…

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING CUSTOMER PREMISES TRAFFIC

Granted: March 13, 2025
Application Number: 20250088438
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, detecting data traffic from a wireless device located in a customer premise, determining from characteristics of the data traffic whether to route the data traffic to a public network external to the customer premise or route the data traffic to a local network in the customer premise, responsive to determining to route the data traffic to the local network in the customer premise, performing a measurement on the data traffic,…

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING NETWORK IDENTIFICATION VERIFICATION

Granted: March 13, 2025
Application Number: 20250088390
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining a reference data set comprising a plurality of reference data records, wherein the reference data set is associated with a cloud infrastructure, and wherein each of the reference data records comprises a reference network name associated with one of a plurality of reference networks that is configured within the cloud infrastructure and a corresponding reference Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) identifier for the one…

METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND DEVICES FOR GENERATING A MULTI-USER (MU) MULTIPLE-INPUT-MULTIPLE-OUTPUT (MIMO) GROUP BASED ON BEAM IDENTIFIERS OF COMMUNICATION DEVICES

Granted: March 13, 2025
Application Number: 20250088265
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining a first beam identifier associated with a first communication device, obtaining a second beam identifier associated with a second communication device, and generating a multi-user (MU) multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) group including the first communication device and the second communication device based on the first beam identifier and the second beam identifier. Other embodiments are disclosed.

METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND DEVICES FOR COLLABORATIVE DESIGN OF AN EQUIPMENT SITE

Granted: March 13, 2025
Application Number: 20250086558
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining and aggregating first image content of an equipment site resulting in first aggregated image content, and providing the first aggregated image content to communication devices that render it on a respective display. Further embodiments include identifying first equipment from first user-generated input, and adjusting the first aggregated image content with a first equipment image resulting in second aggregated image…

SYSTEMS, METHODS AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA FOR SOFTWARE DEFINED STORAGE SECURITY PROTECTION

Granted: March 13, 2025
Application Number: 20250085871
A system is provided with a software controller; a storage platform capable of storing stored blocks of data and having a central processing unit; a controller monitoring and isolation tool embedded in the software controller; and a storage monitoring and isolation tool embedded in the storage platform that is capable of locking down a memory partition on the storage platform. The system also includes a memory for storing computer instructions and a host computer coupled with the memory,…

APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR COORDINATED DETERMINATIONS BASED ON CONTEXTUAL DATA

Granted: March 6, 2025
Application Number: 20250080946
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, identifying a first position of a first user, identifying a first context associated with the first user, determining, based on the first position and the first context, at least a first action that is recommended to be taken, and providing at least one output that provides an indication of the at least a first action. Other embodiments are disclosed.