Media content memory retrieval
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12271345
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a media consumption database that stores data elements describing conditions under which electronic media content is consumed by a user on an electronic device. A search of the media consumption database based on at least a portion of the conditions may result in at least a portion of the electronic media content to be re-presented to an electronic device of the user Other embodiments are disclosed.
Detection of unlikely travel of mobile devices indicative of fraudulent mobile device usage
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12273961
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…
Facilitating real-time power optimization in advanced networks
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12273822
Facilitating real-time power optimization in advanced networks (e.g., 5G, 6G, and beyond) is provided herein. Operations of a method can include determining, by a system comprising a memory and a processor, a power distribution setting for a user equipment that includes multiple radios based on a historical radio power usage, a historical performance result, a current location, and an application currently executing on the user equipment. The method also can include implementing, by the…
Methods, systems, and devices to utilize a machine learning application to identify meeting locations based on locations of communication devices participating in a communication session
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12273792
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, determining a group of users are participating in a communication session. Each user of the group of users are participating in the communication session with a communication device resulting in a group of communication devices. Further embodiments include receiving a request for a first meeting location for the group of users to meet, and identifying a device location for each of the group of communication devices resulting in…
Primary cell switching in carrier aggregation
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12273778
The disclosed technology is directed towards switching the primary cell in a carrier aggregation scenario to improve performance. Measurement data of a mobile device (user equipment) is evaluated with respect to one or more various criteria such as cell carrier bandwidth, cell carrier load, cell-related capability and other carrier data (e.g., dynamic spectrum sharing versus clean, time division duplex or frequency division duplex), and others. Device conditions such as overheating can…
Bitrate adaptation and prefetching for short-form video
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12273576
A method includes acquiring a playlist identifying video files and an order in which the video files are to be played back during a video streaming session on an endpoint device, obtaining, from an operator of a communications network over which the video files are to be downloaded, a maximum value of a streaming parameter for the video streaming session, selecting a subsequent video file that is scheduled for playback after a playback of a currently playing video file, wherein the…
Mobile core cloud connection router
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12273266
Respective implementations facilitating a mobile core connection router are provided. A method can include establishing, by a system comprising a processor, a connection to a virtualized core network instance, associated with a first computing device, via a mobility tunneling protocol; in response to the establishing of the connection, initializing, by the system, a virtualized router function based on a routing table; and routing, by the system and via the virtualized router function,…
Managing directed personal immersions in a communication group via awareness warning based on location and directional position
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12272373
In one example, a method performed by a processing system including at least one processor includes establishing a communication group including at least three users of an extended reality environment as members, tracking locations and directional positions of the members of the communication group within the extended reality environment and within physical environments of the members, determining that a second user of the at least three users is an intended recipient of a first…
Quantifying user engagement with a media item
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12272174
For example, a method includes obtaining sensor data depicting movements of facial features of a user who is present in a location in which a media item is being presented, calculating, using the sensor data, an alertness score for the user, determining the alertness score falls below a predefined threshold alertness score, starting, in response to determining that the alertness score falls below the predefined threshold alertness score, a timer while continuing to calculate the…
Participant attendance management at events including virtual reality events
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12271839
Disclosed is managing (creating and maintaining) attendance/participation data describing remote attendance of attendees of an event, or a replay of the event. The event can be a virtual reality event. When a remote user attends an event, subsequent viewers of the event replay can see a digital representation (e.g., an avatar) of the remote user within the replay as having attended the event in-person. Subsequent replays include digital representations of the remote user and the user(s)…
Apparatuses and methods for facilitating an upper bound in respect of a spatial domain beam selection
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12267141
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…
Apparatuses and methods for facilitating a selection between carrier aggregation and dual connectivity
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12267899
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, analyzing data in accordance with at least one algorithm to select one of carrier aggregation or dual connectivity for providing a communication service in respect of a communication device, resulting in a selection, and providing the communication service to the communication device in accordance with the selection. Other embodiments are disclosed.
Sentiment capture by wireless network elements
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12267752
Sentiment capture by wireless network elements is provided herein. A method can include extracting, by a system comprising a processor, features of sensor data captured by a sensor, communicatively coupled to the system via a wireless communication network and located in an area, wherein the sensor data is representative of respective persons present in the area, resulting in extracted features; determining, by the system, sentiment data, representative of an emotional condition of the…
Methods, systems, and devices for offloading data traffic to an aerial base station in mobile networks
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12267724
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining a first E-UTRAN cell global identifier (ECGI) associated with an aerial base station (ABS), determining a location of the ABS, and determining that a terrestrial base station (TBS) is within a distance threshold of the location of the ABS. Further embodiments include providing the first ECGI of the ABS to the TBS, and providing instructions to the TBS to indicate to each terrestrial communication devices (TCDs)…
Privacy preserving location services
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12267671
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, accessing registration information that includes a criterion for allowing receiving notifications based on location information of a communication device, accessing a location request of equipment of a location requestor that includes a notification location, accessing encrypted information representative of identification information, the location information, and time information of the communication device that has been…
Dynamic multi-network security controls
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12267336
Dynamic multi-network security controls are provided herein. A method can include receiving a report of malicious network traffic observed by first network equipment operating in a first communication network, where the report indicates a second communication network distinct from the first communication network as an originating network of the malicious network traffic, identifying second network equipment operating in the second communication network as a source of the malicious…
Service and security enhancement of communication services
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12267324
Authorization for access to an application server and associated communication service can be desirably managed. When a device attempts to access an application server and service, an authorization server generates an encrypted token, comprising device identifier information, and communicates the token to the device. The device communicates the token to the application server. The application server communicates the token to the authorization server. The authorization server determines…
System and method providing secure access to internet of things devices
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12267309
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 allocating a port for receiving a request to access a resource of a second device, wherein the second device has a non-routable network address, wherein the device is on a first network, wherein the second device is on a third…
Connectionless segment routing for 5G or other next generation network
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12267232
Unlike smart devices, Internet of things (IoTs), such as meter readers, generate very low revenue per user. Traditional tunnel/bearer based connection-oriented architectures do not scale economically for billions of IoT devices due to the amount of signaling overhead associated with GTP tunnel setup/tear down and the states related to GTP tunnels maintained at various parts of the mobile network. However, the mobility network can efficiently support massive stationary and/or mobile IoTs…
Facilitating outer loop link adaptation in advanced networks
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12267157
Facilitating facilitate enablement of a smart HARQ feedback to support outer loop link adaptation in advanced networks (e.g., 4G, 5G, 6G, and beyond) is provided herein. Operations of a method can comprise sending, by a first device comprising a processor, a data packet to a second device. The method also can comprise receiving, by the first device, negative acknowledgement data from the second device. The negative acknowledgement data can indicate that the second device fails to support…
