AT&T Patent Applications

BROWSER IN THE BROWSER ATTACK PROTECTION EMPLOYING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Granted: October 3, 2024
Application Number: 20240330444
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, capturing an image of information displayed on a display screen of the device, identifying in the image a pop-up, the pop-up prompting entry of user credentials of a user for an authenticator website, the pop-up generating an authorization request from the device to the authenticator website, identifying in the image a network address for a target website, and communicating with the authenticator website at the network address…

SPLIT INPUT/OUTPUT SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATIONS

Granted: October 3, 2024
Application Number: 20240334508
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 facilitating establishment of a communications path between an open device and a remote device through a communications network; receiving an indication of potentially sensitive information on the communications path; and facilitating…

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING LOCATION ANOMALIES OF MOBILE DEVICES

Granted: October 3, 2024
Application Number: 20240334385
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: generating a hash table of keys from identifiers for mobile devices in a communications network; filtering records of signaling events received from the communications network; sorting the records of signaling events to generate a time…

METHODS, SYSTEMS AND DEVICES FOR ENHANCING GROUP MOBILITY FOR A MOBILE INTEGRATED ACCESS AND BACKHAUL (IAB) NODE

Granted: October 3, 2024
Application Number: 20240334292
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example receiving a group of mobility measurements associated with a communication device. A group of communication devices is communicatively coupled to the mobile IAB node device as a mobility group. Further embodiments include receiving a request from the communication device to join the mobility group, selecting the communication device to join the mobility group based on the group of mobility measurements, and transmitting a…

DYNAMIC DISCOVERY OF NETWORK FUNCTIONS IN MOBILITY INTERWORKING ACROSS RADIO ACCESS TECHNOLOGIES

Granted: October 3, 2024
Application Number: 20240334284
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a machine-readable medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processing system including a processor, facilitate performance of operations including receiving a first message from a mobile management entity (MME) in a Long-Term Evolution (LTE) network indicating a handover of user equipment (UE) to a fifth generation (5G) network covering a first area in which the UE is located; discovering an access…

APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING COMMUNICATION SERVICES VIA CONNECTIONLESS TECHNOLOGY

Granted: October 3, 2024
Application Number: 20240334276
Aspects of the disclosure include transmitting first payload data to a first communication device via a first link, subsequent to the transmitting of the first payload data, obtaining a first indication that a handover is being negotiated between the first communication device and a second communication device, based on the first indication, placing, at a processing system, the first link in an inactive state, based on the first indication, storing second payload data in a buffer, and…

METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND DEVICES FOR PERFORMING A HANDOVER OF UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAVS) BASED ON HEIGHT THRESHOLDS OF BASE STATIONS

Granted: October 3, 2024
Application Number: 20240334260
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining measurements reports of a group of target base stations. Each measurement report includes a target height threshold of a target base station from the group of target base stations. Further embodiments can include receiving a notification that an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) communicatively coupled to a serving base station has exceeded a serving height threshold of the serving base station, selecting a first target…

INTELLIGENT PERSONALIZED ALERT/NOTIFICATION AS A SERVICE

Granted: October 3, 2024
Application Number: 20240334163
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method in which a processing system receives an alert for delivery to user equipment devices (UEs) communicating on a network. The system determines a type of the alert and a coverage area for the alert; identifies UEs in the coverage area for delivery of the alert; and determines, for each of the UEs, a priority level for the alert, and selects, for each of the UEs, a delivery profile for delivering the alert; the delivery…

APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING AN INTELLIGENT NETWORK VIDEO PLAYER FOR WIRELESS NETWORKS

Granted: October 3, 2024
Application Number: 20240333651
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, selecting a first rate limit for a conveyance of first video traffic in a communication system based on an analysis of a first plurality of key performance indicator (KPI) values for the communication system, conveying the first video traffic in the communication system in accordance with the first rate limit, and conveying first elastic traffic in the communication system based on the first rate limit. Other embodiments are…

APPARTUSES AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING AN UPPER BOUND IN RESPECT OF A SPATIAL DOMAIN BEAM SELECTION

Granted: October 3, 2024
Application Number: 20240333372
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, identifying a first value corresponding to a constraint pertaining to a number of beams, conveying the first value to at least one communication device, and obtaining, based on the conveying, at least one report from the at least one communication device, wherein an at least a second value corresponding to a number of the beams referenced in the at least one report is less than or equal to the first value. Other embodiments are…

INTELLIGENT ANTENNA ADAPTIVE DIRECTED BEAMFORMING BASED ON TOTALITY OF CIRCUMSTANCES

Granted: September 26, 2024
Application Number: 20240324002
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, assessing a priority of a particular user at a service area in a mobile communications network for a strong radio signal from a cell site of the mobile communications network, and providing the strong radio signal to a mobile device of the particular user according to the priority of the particular user, wherein the providing the strong radio signal comprises focusing an antenna beam of a beamforming antenna at the service area…

CELLULAR DEVICE GEOLOCATION BASED ON TIMING ADVANCE DATA

Granted: September 26, 2024
Application Number: 20240323650
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a network device that comprises a processing system including a processor and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations. The operations include obtaining timing advance data regarding a communication device served by the network; the timing advance data is collected by a network element coupled to the network device, and the network element communicates with…

AUTOMATIC CIRCUIT CONFIGURATION DETECTION IN LEGACY TELEPHONE NETWORKS

Granted: September 26, 2024
Application Number: 20240323084
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method in which a processing system determines a plurality of combinations of settings for a session border controller (SBC) communicating with a first network and installed at a premises. The method also includes listing the combinations, and identifying a combination that coincides with settings of a primary rate interface (PRI) circuit. The method further includes enabling a first connection between a first port of the SBC…

INTERACTIVE AND DYNAMIC MAPPING ENGINE (IDME)

Granted: September 26, 2024
Application Number: 20240320564
Methods, systems, and apparatuses, among other things, may provide for an interactive dynamic mapping engine (IDME) for business intelligence, which may interactively obtain information for user devices from sources and schema unknown to the user devices.

THERMAL MITIGATION FOR AUTOMATED TESTING

Granted: September 26, 2024
Application Number: 20240320114
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device under test sending thermal reports to test equipment. The thermal reports may include one or more thermal metrics related to one or more thermal states of the device under test. Responsive to the thermal reports, the test equipment may perform thermal mitigation actions, including passive processes and/or active processes. Other embodiments are disclosed.

TRANSFORMATION AS A SERVICE

Granted: September 19, 2024
Application Number: 20240311340
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving input data via a transformation UI, generating transformation configuration data, causing the transformation UI to present transformation object data per the transformation configuration data, where the transformation object data identifies data objects each including an input and output field name and a data type, detecting, from the transformation UI, an instruction defining a mapping for the input data, including a…

SERVICE DIFFERENTIATION AT AN ACCESS POINT DEVICE

Granted: September 19, 2024
Application Number: 20240314830
Adaptive pairing of an access point (AP) slice with other computing resource slices is disclosed. Pairing of an AP slice can comprise pairing to a radio access network (RAN) slice and/or to a network core component (core) slice. The pairing can be based on end point device information, AP environment information, user preference information, and state information for a RAN and/or CN slice. Coordinating or synchronization of AP, RAN, and/or core slices can enable streamlining of migration…

APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR REDUCING A SIZE OF MESSAGES PERTAINING TO DEVICE CAPABILITIES

Granted: September 19, 2024
Application Number: 20240314631
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, transmitting a first message that identifies a first plurality of capabilities supported by the device, based on the transmitting of the first message, obtaining a second message from a user equipment that identifies a second plurality of capabilities supported by the user equipment, wherein the second plurality of capabilities is a subset of the first plurality of capabilities, and provisioning a first communication service to…

RADIO NETWORK AUTOMATION USING UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES

Granted: September 19, 2024
Application Number: 20240314594
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method in which a processing system determines a location of a failure in a communication network and a cause of the failure. If the failure cannot be resolved using a recovery feature of the network, the processing system identifies a recovery procedure for resolving the failure, and dispatches an automated vehicle to the failure location; the vehicle is provided with instructions for performing the recovery procedure, which…

INDICATION OF INTEROPERABILITY AND DEPLOYMENT TESTED TIME-DIVISION DUPLEX SLOT FORMATS

Granted: September 19, 2024
Application Number: 20240313936
Aspects of the subject matter described herein are directed towards indicating to a wireless network device which time-division duplex slot patterns (slot formats) are supported by a user equipment device, e.g., which slot patterns have gone through interoperability and deployment testing (IODT) successfully with respect to the type of user equipment device. With the supported slot pattern information, the network can make an intelligent decision on scheduling downlink/uplink ratios,…