AT&T Patent Applications

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…

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…

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 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…

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.

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.

CENTRALIZED CONTROL OF USER DEVICES VIA UNIVERSAL IP SERVICES REGISTRAR/HUB

Granted: March 6, 2025
Application Number: 20250080603
A method and system for centralized control of user devices is disclosed. The method for centralized control of user devices via universal IP services registrar includes receiving a request to register a user device for a plurality of services, registering the user device for the plurality of services by creating a user settings profile for the user for each of the plurality of services, receiving data from the plurality of registered services, and transmitting received data to the user…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…