AT&T Patent Applications

VIRTUAL REALITY AVATAR ATTENTION-BASED SERVICES

Granted: March 6, 2025
Application Number: 20250078378
The disclosed technology relates to detection of attention exhibited by a second user to a first user's avatar in a virtual reality environment. A first user's avatar activity and the second user's activity are evaluated to determine the second user's (e.g., via another avatar) attention level directed towards first user's avatar. Information can be sent to notify the first user that the second user's attention level has satisfied attention-level criterion data. For example, if the…

ENHANCED BROADBAND AND MOBILITY ACCESS

Granted: March 6, 2025
Application Number: 20250081095
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a network communication device that includes a backhaul link circuit and a Wi-Fi access point to provide broadband services to a service provider's broadband customers and to provide mobility services to the service provider's mobility customers. This network communication device is installed outside of a dwelling unit in order to simplify the installation procedure and avoid property disruption. An extender device registered to…

USER ASSOCIATION FOR INTEGRATED ACCESS AND BACKHAUL FOR 5G OR OTHER NEXT GENERATION NETWORK

Granted: March 6, 2025
Application Number: 20250080973
In a 5G network, control unit (CU) can be connected to a radio access network controller (RC). In response to receiving measurement data from the CU, the RC can process the measurement data to determine polices and procedures related to radio resource management, and/or radio resource control, which can then be utilized to manage mobility, dual-connectivity, carrier aggregation, and/or integrated access and backhaul topology formation and routing. The measurement data provided by the CU…

LTE Gateways For Home And Commercial Sensor Data

Granted: March 6, 2025
Application Number: 20250080962
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device that receives data from a machine-type communication (MTC) device located at a premises, determines an identifier for the MTC device; compares the identifier with a list of identifiers; and, responsive to determining that the MTC device is a listed device, transmits the data to a first network element remote from the premises. The device and the first network element do not receive data from devices at the premises…

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.

OPERATIONS CONTROL OF NETWORK SERVICES

Granted: March 6, 2025
Application Number: 20250080619
Methods, systems, and apparatuses, for real-time operation control, among other things. There may be adjustments to a first device in which a first network service operates. The adjustment to the device may include moving a second network service of the first device to a second device. The first network service and the second network service may be associated with virtual machines.

VIDEO STREAMING ORCHESTRATOR

Granted: March 6, 2025
Application Number: 20250080589
A streaming orchestrator may monitor the quality of video being delivered to a home or other building. If the streaming orchestrator determines that additional performance is needed, it may create an additional User Plane Gateway in the virtual “white box” environment residing in the customer premises. The streaming orchestrator may instruct gNodeBs to continue to route traffic back to the central core functions or to route traffic to local user plane gateways which transmit video…

Microburst Detection and Management

Granted: March 6, 2025
Application Number: 20250080461
Systems, methods, and apparatuses provide a scalable framework for analyzing queuing and transient congestion in network switches. The system reports which flows contributed to the queue buildup and enables direct per-packet action in the data plane to prevent transient congestion. The system may be configured to analyze queuing in legacy network switches.

METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DYNAMICALLY CONTROLLING APPLICATION USAGE ON A NETWORK WITH HEURISTICS

Granted: March 6, 2025
Application Number: 20250080442
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, accessing a heuristic rule associated with network data that is collectible by end user devices; determining a dynamic variable according to the heuristic rule; converting the dynamic variable to a value; adjusting, according to the value, a number of the end user devices that are to transmit the network data to a network device. Other embodiments are disclosed.

APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING A USE OF MU-MIMO IN RESPECT OF FREQUENCY BANDS, INCLUDING THE FR2 FREQUENCY BANDS

Granted: March 6, 2025
Application Number: 20250080173
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, performing a first analysis in respect of a first carrier, the first carrier operative in accordance with a frequency included in a frequency range from 24.25 GHz to 52.60 GHz, inclusive, determining, based on the performing of the first analysis, that a first user equipment (UE) is to be paired with at least one other UE as part of a multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) topology in the first carrier, resulting in…

PREDICTIVE AUTOMATION FOR WIRELESS DEVICES USING INTELLIGENT DATA COLLECTION

Granted: March 6, 2025
Application Number: 20250077327
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining training from wireless devices, where the wireless devices collect the training data that indicates first operational parameters and operational errors at the wireless devices; analyzing the training data to generate pre-failure thresholds according to the first operational parameters and the operational errors; receiving operational data from a particular wireless device, where the particular wireless device collects…

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATING AND USING FLOATING VIRTUAL MACHINES

Granted: March 6, 2025
Application Number: 20250077267
A system includes a plurality of interconnected hardware platforms, wherein the plurality of hardware platforms are configured to run a software defined network, a plurality of virtual machines configured to be instantiated on the software defined network, and a plurality of floating management layers, each of the floating management layers associated with one of the plurality of virtual machines. Each floating management layer includes coupling the associated virtual machine to one of…

Controlling Access To Datasets Described In A Cryptographically Signed Record

Granted: February 27, 2025
Application Number: 20250068759
In a dataset exchange environment in which datasets are available for exchange or transformation, a dataset validation platform may be configured to update a cryptographically signed record based on each dataset that is available via the data exchange environment. The dataset validation platform may be further configured to control access to the datasets based on whether a request to access a particular dataset is compliant with an availability requirement of the particular dataset. The…

METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DYNAMIC LINK AGGREGATION

Granted: February 27, 2025
Application Number: 20250071837
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, determining, by a wireless router or a wireless access point (WAP) associated with a fixed network connection, that a network condition is satisfied, based on the determining that the network condition is satisfied, detecting for available networks operating in licensed spectrum and available networks operating in unlicensed spectrum, responsive to the detecting, identifying a first available network operating in licensed…

CARRIER AGGREGATION - HANDOVER SYNERGISM

Granted: February 27, 2025
Application Number: 20250071649
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, determining a Reference Signal Received Power (RSRP) and a Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR) for a plurality of carriers at a user equipment (UE) device, the plurality of carriers transmitted by a source group of cells including a source primary cell (PCell) and one or more source secondary cells (SCells) associated with the source PCell, and initiating a handover of communication with the UE device from the source group of cells to a…

Protection Against Relay Attack for Keyless Entry Systems in Vehicles and Systems

Granted: February 27, 2025
Application Number: 20250071554
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device in which a processing system of a remote entry system selects a first circuit from a plurality of circuits of a key remote from the device; wirelessly transmits a first challenge signal to the key, the first challenge signal specifying the first circuit; and wirelessly receives a first response signal from the key, the first response signal having a first response signal power level and a first response signal delay…

FACILITATION OF LOCAL DISASTER MOBILE EDGE COMPUTING RESILIENCY FOR 5G OR OTHER NEXT GENERATION NETWORK

Granted: February 27, 2025
Application Number: 20250071532
Local weather information such as a nationwide emergency network for first responders can enable first responders to communicate nationally with a single network, linking to suppliers, utilities, and weather information. The system disclosed herein can provide data to first responders and data from first responders can provide insights into local conditions that can be utilized by edge data centers. Adding first responder data can improve the processing speed of moving of edge-based…

INTELLIGENT MEDIA CONTENT PLAYBACK

Granted: February 27, 2025
Application Number: 20250071382
The disclosed technology is directed towards creating a media content presentation for playback, based on user specified input criteria and playback instructions. A user specifies input criteria related to media source data. The media source data is accessed, and further based on the input criterion, matching segments (e.g., scenes and audio) are determined from metadata information that describes the segments; the media playback content is generated from the matching segments. A user…

DETECTION AND NOTIFICATION OF ELECTRONIC INFLUENCE

Granted: February 27, 2025
Application Number: 20250071081
The disclosed technology is generally directed towards monitoring electronic communications to detect content in a communication that is attempting to influence the user in some way. A user can specify influential intent preference data, such as which electronic communications services/applications to monitor for such influential intent content, and the types of the influential intent to monitor for, e.g., political influence types, advertisement influence types, and so on. A user also…

EMERGENCY AD HOC DEVICE COMMUNICATION MONITORING

Granted: February 27, 2025
Application Number: 20250069283
The disclosed technology is directed towards presenting communications data to a responding entity that are relevant to an emergency situation at an emergency location. The communications data can be obtained from communications (e.g., text messages, transmitted video, voice calls and the like) that involve at least one user device at the situation, including communications that do not involve the responding entity. Users may opt in to such an emergency service to allow access to their…