AT&T Patent Grants

Customizable and low-latency architecture for cellular core networks

Granted: September 17, 2024
Patent Number: 12096513
Systems and methods provide containers instantiated for each user equipment (UE), or on “per-UE” bases, which consolidate certain network functions for processing UE traffic into an efficient, in-network, and proximate virtualization to reduce latency and increase customizability.

Method and apparatus for authenticating media based on tokens

Granted: September 17, 2024
Patent Number: 12096059
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining a content item, receiving a first token that comprises an identification of a date and a time when a first portion of the content item is obtained, a location where the first portion of the content item is obtained, or a combination thereof, and transmitting the content item and the first token to a database. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Homoglyph attack detection

Granted: September 17, 2024
Patent Number: 12095813
The described technology is generally directed towards homoglyph attack detection. A homoglyph attack detection service can create images of customer's protected domain names. A convolutional neural network can generate feature vectors based on the images. The feature vectors can be stored in a similarity search data store. Newly observed domain names can be compared to the customer's protected domain names, by also generating feature vectors for the newly observed domain names and…

Split input and output remote access

Granted: September 17, 2024
Patent Number: 12095771
A system allows for higher security guarantees on public or shared or even compromised equipment, which may be designated as untrusted equipment, without a need to install additional software on it or connect to it outside of general browser interactions. Based on this system, even if it is compromised, proper information separation may ensure security of the sensitive parts of data. That is, trusted information will only go to (outputs) or come from (inputs) trusted devices and…

Multi-beam listen before talk

Granted: September 17, 2024
Patent Number: 12095713
Various embodiments disclosed herein provide for a multi-beam Listen Before Talk which is a coexistence mechanism used by wireless technologies such as Wi-Fi, to access unlicensed shared spectrum, such as the ISM UNII bands (5 GHz). The embodiments disclosed herein enable a transceiver to determine whether or not there is activity on a beam to avoid causing interference. The transceiver can determine that there is activity in a certain direction, and then avoid transmitting on a beam in…

Confidentiality preserving intraorganizational expert search

Granted: September 17, 2024
Patent Number: 12093333
A processing system including at least one processor may obtain at least one search term and an identity of a searcher, identify individuals who are each either a one-step or two-step association of the searcher, identify first documents associated with the individuals and associated with the search term(s), calculate, for each individual, a score based upon citations of second documents to documents associated with the individual from among the first documents, generate an invitation to…

Facilitating power conservation for devices based on likelihood of power usage level

Granted: September 17, 2024
Patent Number: 12093112
Power conservation for devices is facilitated based on likelihood of power usage level. An example method can comprise determining, by a first device comprising a processor, that a second device is within a defined proximity of a third device, wherein the third device is determined to be operating in a mode according to a first power consumption operation that satisfies a defined condition, and wherein the operating in the mode according to the first power consumption operation is based…

Intelligent wireless broadband cooperative model

Granted: September 10, 2024
Patent Number: 12088662
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device including a processing system that evaluates a need for additional data streaming resources at the device, and determines that a set of cooperating devices, located within a predetermined distance, is configured for sharing data streaming resources. The device receives the requested data from the cooperating devices in simultaneous streams, each stream including a segment of the requested data. The data source sends the…

Methods, systems, and devices for maintaining service continuity of a user end device via a direct communication link to a communication relay when the communication relay experiences a mobility event in a mobile network

Granted: September 10, 2024
Patent Number: 12089181
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining media content from a media content server over a mobile network, and providing the media content to a communication device over a first direct communication link. Embodiments include detecting a mobility event associated with the mobile network, and providing a notification message to a first network device associated with the mobile network. Further embodiments can include obtaining instructions from the first network…

Flexible configuration of guaranteed bitrate admission control for 5G or other next generation network

Granted: September 10, 2024
Patent Number: 12089085
A system can facilitate assigning guaranteed bitrate (GBR) admission control thresholds in a network with multiple network slices serving multiple GBR services. Thus, each network slice can optionally have its own dedicated GBR admission. For example, based on a requested service, the system can compare a received quality indicator to a threshold value to determine if a bearer shall be admitted in accordance with dedicated GBR admission control region within its slice. If the slice does…

Event detection and management for quantum communications

Granted: September 10, 2024
Patent Number: 12088631
The present disclosure describes event detection and management for quantum communications in a communication network. The event detection and management for quantum communications in a communication network may be provided based on event-based interaction between quantum nodes of the communication network and a network controller of the communication network, such as where the quantum nodes detect events associated with quantum communications and report the events associated with…

System and method of software defined network enabled slicing as a service utilizing artificial intelligence

Granted: September 10, 2024
Patent Number: 12088510
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving workload requests for tenant devices providing services to user devices; partitioning node resources to facilitate network slicing in a software defined network to provide the services; determining that the workload requests exceed available resources of the node; and outsourcing a portion of a load to one or more neighboring nodes, where the outsourcing is performed in coordination with a regional orchestrator and a…

Hybrid automatic repeat request feedback for outer loop adaptation for 5G or other next generation network

Granted: September 10, 2024
Patent Number: 12088418
Intelligent hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback can better support link adaption. Thus, in addition to the traditional HARQ feedback, which is to relay acknowledgement (ACK) and negative acknowledgement (NAK) data based on a decoding result, a new state for the HARQ feedback can be represented as “ACK+”. Consequently, ACK+ can be used to indicate to the network that a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) of a current data packet is too conservative, and the user equipment…

Facilitation of conditional do not resuscitate orders

Granted: September 10, 2024
Patent Number: 12087441
This disclosure describes a solution to enable more useful and responsive methods for a person's wishes for resuscitation actions to be canceled or discontinued in the event of a medical event. In this solution, a person can record their do not resuscitate (DNR) wishes with more specificity. For instance, they can specify conditions for treatment or non-treatment in the event of a medical emergency that would otherwise call for live-saving procedures or the use of an automated external…

Apparatuses and methods for facilitating a generation and use of models

Granted: September 10, 2024
Patent Number: 12086833
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, presenting a first model representative of a communication system, receiving, based on the presenting of the first model, a first input that identifies a first communication device included in the communication system, responsive to the receiving of the first input, presenting values for a plurality of operating parameters associated with the first communication device, receiving a second input that includes a modification of at…

Secure package delivery

Granted: September 10, 2024
Patent Number: 12086755
Wireless presence is used as a theft prevention mechanism for packages. When a package is shipped, the package includes a wireless security device. Before the package is delivered to its final destination shipping address, the wireless security device is activated and programmed with a security credential. The security credential, though, is based on information obtained during an initial purchase. The wireless security device may thus only be deactivated by a recipient participating in…

Autonomous vehicle sensor security system

Granted: September 10, 2024
Patent Number: 12085934
Example methods and systems are disclosed to provide autonomous vehicle sensor security. An example method may include generating, by a first autonomous vehicle, a first map instance of a physical environment using first environmental information generated by a first sensor of a first autonomous vehicle. A second map instance from at least one of a second autonomous vehicle located in the physical environment is received. The first map instance may be correlated with the second map…

Smart self cell configuration for aerial base station over 4G/5G network

Granted: September 3, 2024
Patent Number: 12082044
An architecture for facilitating smart physical cell identity (PCI) configuration for aerial network equipment that can used in terrestrial 4G and/or 5G LTE wireless networking paradigms. A method can comprise: receiving, from core network equipment, an instruction to travel from a first geographic location to a second geographic location, wherein the second geographic location has been determined, by the core network equipment, as representing a hotspot location; traveling from the…

Facilitating integrated management of connected assets that utilize different technologies and that are located across disparate wireless communications networks

Granted: September 3, 2024
Patent Number: 12082311
Integrated management of connected assets that utilize different technologies and that are located across disparate wireless communications networks is facilitated herein. A method can comprise evaluating, by a system comprising a processor, first data associated with a first device operable with a first computing platform and second data associated with a second device operable with a second computing platform different from the first computing platform. The method can also comprise…

Quality of experience optimization to meet variable network demands

Granted: September 3, 2024
Patent Number: 12082280
In one example, a method includes instructing a mobile device of a user to establish a connection with an application server via a first network slice, where the first network slice is configured based on an initial resource need of a network connected application executing on the mobile device and an initial set of network conditions, sending, to the mobile device, a prediction of at least one network condition for the first network slice at a time in the future, receiving, from the…