AT&T Patent Applications

APPLICATION RESOURCE ALLOCATION FOR WIRELESS SERVICES

Granted: September 5, 2024
Application Number: 20240297915
Connecting user equipment (UE) to an application can be managed based on UE movement and location. During data session between UE and application, a communication management component (CMC) associated with anchor network component (ANC) or serving network component (SNC) determines UE location, and connects UE to the ANC and SNC, which enables access of the application via a data network associated with ANC. As UE moves, CMC tracks UE movement and communication conditions. If, when UE is…

SYSTEM AND METHOD TO FACILITATE OPEN MOBILE NETWORKS

Granted: September 5, 2024
Application Number: 20240297819
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 including facilitating activation of a first module for a wireless system; integrating the first module into the wireless system; checking for errors during the integration of the first module in the wireless system; responsive to a…

SYSTEM FOR CONTEXTUAL DIMINISHED REALITY FOR METAVERSE IMMERSIONS

Granted: August 29, 2024
Application Number: 20240290001
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving information about an augmented reality (AR) environment which includes a plurality of objects and a user participating in the AR environment, the user viewing the AR environment through a user equipment, receiving context information for the AR environment, identifying a diminished reality (DR) object of the plurality of objects, wherein the identifying is responsive to the context information, modifying the AR…

APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING PRIORITY-BASED CAPABILITY MESSAGING

Granted: August 29, 2024
Application Number: 20240292448
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, allocating a first plurality of combinations of frequency bands to a first group, allocating a second plurality of combinations of frequency bands to a second group, prioritizing the first group relative to the second group, and obtaining a connection request from a communication device in accordance with the prioritizing, wherein the connection request references a first combination of frequency bands included in the first…

BROADBAND BACKUP VIA BOOTSTRAP

Granted: August 29, 2024
Application Number: 20240292242
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, establishing a local area connection with one or more devices including a home gateway, the home gateway configured to access data services over a broadband network, receiving an indication that the data services over the broadband network are unavailable, initiating a cellular network connection with a cellular network using a Bootstrap embedded subscriber identity module (eSIM) service of the wireless device to access the…

PORTABLE GENERATOR DISPATCH RECOMMENDATION ENGINE

Granted: August 29, 2024
Application Number: 20240292239
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, detecting an interruption of a supply of operating power to a cell site of a cellular communication network, estimating an estimated time to restoration (ETR) of the supply of operating power to the cell site, wherein the estimating is based on information of an operator of the cellular communication network, determining, based in part on the ETR, to dispatch a portable generator to the cell site to provide a new supply of…

SECURITY MANAGEMENT ON A MOBILE DEVICE

Granted: August 29, 2024
Application Number: 20240292221
Example mobile devices disclosed herein include a camera, memory including computer-executable instructions, and a processor to execute the instructions to at least associate a location of the mobile device with picture data obtained with the camera. The processor is also to assign a first data tag to the picture data when the location of the mobile device corresponds to a first area, the first data tag to identify a first security level for the picture data, or assign a second data tag…

APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR FACILIATING AN IDENTIFICATION AND SCHEDULING OF RESOURCES FOR REDUCED CAPABILITY DEVICES

Granted: August 29, 2024
Application Number: 20240291770
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining data pertaining to a plurality of user equipment and a plurality of network resources, analyzing the data to identify that a first user equipment included in the plurality of user equipment is a reduced capability device, based on the analyzing, allocating first network resources included in the plurality of network resources to the first user equipment, resulting in a first allocation, and based on the analyzing,…

Application-Aware BGP Path Selection And Forwarding

Granted: August 29, 2024
Application Number: 20240291752
A routing structure is defined for provider edge (PE) routers that will create the ability to recompute best paths based on application criteria. The routing structure may include the use of a network controller which is connected with the internet to receive requests from applications to trigger path re-computation. The controller will peer with PEs to send re-computation information used by the PE to construct an application-aware BGP table and forwarding instance. The PE also defines…

METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING UPLINK TRANSMIT POWER

Granted: August 29, 2024
Application Number: 20240291691
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving, over an uplink (UL) via a combination of coherent modular antenna arrays, first transmissions from a first user equipment (UE) and second transmissions from a second UE, wherein the first UE and the second UE are being served by the cell in multi-user (Mu)-multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) mode, determining, based on the first transmissions and the second transmissions, that a probability of the second UE…

APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING AN ADAPTIVE CENTRAL UNIT PLACEMENT/DEPLOYMENT SOLUTION FOR RADIO ACCESS NETWORKS

Granted: August 22, 2024
Application Number: 20240284191
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, allocating a first virtualized distributed unit (vDU) to a first virtualized central unit (vCU) and a second vDU to a second vCU as part of a first configuration of a virtualized radio access network (vRAN), detecting a change in a condition in the vRAN subsequent to the allocating, and based on the detecting, reallocating the second vDU to the first vCU as part of a second configuration of the vRAN. Other embodiments are…

EDGE CLOUD RESOURCE ALLOCATION USING HINTS FROM NETWORK PROVIDERS

Granted: August 22, 2024
Application Number: 20240283749
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a network API service that receives network event data and provides performance hints to a resource manager that manages application containers at edge cloud locations. Network event data may be received from access networks, core networks, nodes within access networks or core networks, or the like. Performance hints may allow booting of application containers at edge cloud locations. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Controlling data rate based on domain and radio usage history

Granted: August 22, 2024
Application Number: 20240283744
A domain and a mobile device may exchange data via a radio access node included in a mobile network. During a time of peak demand, a data load level of the radio access node may exceed a threshold. To accommodate the peak demand, historical types and volumes of data may be used to manage a data rate related to data associated with the domain. Based on the historical information, the data rate for a mobile device, a radio access node, a range of time, or a data type may be controlled. The…

MOBILE VIRTUAL ENDPOINT ECO-SYSTEM

Granted: August 22, 2024
Application Number: 20240283706
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining provisioning information associated with a service provider where the provisioning information includes a mapping of identifications of a group of end user devices to cloud-based services of the service provider; determining, according to the provisioning information, that an end user device of the group of end user devices is permitted to access a service endpoint associated with a particular cloud-based service of…

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SDN ORCHESTRATION VALIDATION

Granted: August 22, 2024
Application Number: 20240283701
A system includes an orchestrator for a software-defined network and configured to receive a request for operation of the software-defined network, a software-defined network controller in communication with the orchestrator through a northbound application programming interface, at least one network element in communication with the software defined network controller though a southbound application programming interface, and a mutable network element configured to receive the request…

METHOD AND AN APPARATUS FOR TRANSITIONING BETWEEN OPTICAL NETWORKS

Granted: August 22, 2024
Application Number: 20240283543
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving a first optical signal from a first optical network via a first port of the wavelength converter, receiving a second optical signal from a second optical network via a second port of the wavelength converter, modulating the first optical signal with the second light signal to generate a third optical signal, eliminating the first light signal from the third optical signal to generate a fourth optical signal, and…

APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR FAST CONVERGENCE TO HIGH-ACCURACY POSITIONING

Granted: August 15, 2024
Application Number: 20240276180
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, computing a first location of a processing system, receiving first data via a unicast transport technology at a first rate, computing a first corrected location of the processing system in accordance with the first location and the first data, receiving second data via a broadcast transport technology, a multicast transport technology, or a combination thereof, at a second rate that is less than the first rate, and computing a…

FACILITATION OF DEEP SERVICE PATH DISCOVERY FOR 5G OR OTHER NEXT GENERATION NETWORK

Granted: August 15, 2024
Application Number: 20240276345
A software defined network (SDN) can add network repository functions (NRF) into a configurations database to enable NF discovery. The SDN can subscribe to NRF notifications to receive new cloud native functions (CNF), registrations, or any other update to the CNF status in 5G system. In addition to listening to NRF notifications, the SDN can implement CNF pooling processes to periodically retrieve CNF from an NRF repository and stay in sync with 5G systems. Thus, a deep service path…

DETECTION OF UNLIKELY TRAVEL OF MOBILE DEVICES INDICATIVE OF FRAUDULENT MOBILE DEVICE USAGE

Granted: August 15, 2024
Application Number: 20240276208
The disclosed technology is directed towards detecting improbable speeds of a mobile device, which can indicate fraudulent activity with respect to the mobile device. Radio access network events and call detail records are processed to determine when a mobile device “travel jumps” between locations at improbable speeds. Events corresponding to handovers between adjacent cells are filtered out. For events corresponding to changed cell towers that are non-adjacent, further processing…

V2X NETWORK COMMUNICATION

Granted: August 15, 2024
Application Number: 20240276182
An evolved multimedia broadcast multicast services (eMBMS) core may map sensor data or telemetry data from a central repository server (e.g., tag it with an area code from where the data is being generated) to a service area. The eMBMS core may inform the radio access network to create a service area for the specific area code, which may be part of or an entire city, county, or the like. Then the radio access network may broadcast the data to the vehicles or devices in the specific area…