AT&T Patent Grants

Apparatuses and methods for facilitating a selection of radio resources

Granted: August 20, 2024
Patent Number: 12069709
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, selecting a first network element for providing a first portion of a communication service to a communication device in an uplink direction based on first radio frequency conditions detected by the communication device, and selecting a second network element for providing the first portion of the communication service to the communication device in a downlink direction based on the first radio frequency conditions detected by…

Intelligent support framework usable for enhancing responder network

Granted: August 20, 2024
Patent Number: 12069555
Resources associated with a responder communication network and a communication network can be managed in an effective manner. In connection with an event, a resource management component (RMC) can analyze network-related data associated with the networks and external data relating to the event or a geographic area related thereto. In connection with the event, based on the analysis, RMC can desirably manage the resources, in part, by determining locations or adjustments for portable…

Blockchain-powered ledger for a data supply chain

Granted: August 20, 2024
Patent Number: 12069179
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a 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 receiving a first record of sending a file and a hash for the file from a sender of the file; recording the first record on a blockchain; providing the first record to a receiver of the file; and monitoring a predetermined time…

Automatic generation of trojan signatures for intrusion detection

Granted: August 20, 2024
Patent Number: 12069085
A method includes acquiring a plurality of hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) session packets associated with activities of a plurality of known Trojans, wherein all of the Trojans are identified by a common signature identifier, extracting a plurality of request packets from the session packets, identifying a plurality of suspicious request packets within the plurality of request packets, grouping the plurality of suspicious request packets into a plurality of subsets, computing a…

Methods, systems, and devices for provisioning an application on a network node according to movement patterns and application parameters for mobile devices

Granted: August 20, 2024
Patent Number: 12068906
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, identifying a plurality of mobile devices implementing an application, and identifying a group of mobile devices from among the plurality of mobile devices according to a first movement pattern of the group of mobile devices. Further aspects can include identifying a first mobile edge compute (MEC) node at a first location according to a proximity threshold that does not include a MEC agent for the application, and identifying a…

Facilitating fast channel state information computation for 5G wireless communication systems

Granted: August 20, 2024
Patent Number: 12068822
Fast calculation of channel state information using demodulation reference signals (DM-RS) is provided herein. Channel state information is traditionally calculated based on the channel state reference signals (CS-RS). Demodulation reference signals, which are used for channel estimation for a data channel, are transmitted at different times than CS-RS however, and so some portions of the channel state information including layer indicator (LI) and channel quality indicator (CQI) can be…

Apparatuses and methods for facilitating network and system resiliency and impact coordination

Granted: August 13, 2024
Patent Number: 12063143
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining first data pertaining to an outage in a first portion of a communications system, obtaining second data pertaining to a relationship between the first portion of the communications system and a second portion of the communications system, analyzing the first data the second data to identify a risk to communication services facilitated by the second portion of the communications system, determining that the risk is…

Subscriber identity module based radio policy manager

Granted: August 13, 2024
Patent Number: 12063710
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device in which a processing system detects installation of a subscriber identity module (SIM) on a communication device configured for connection to the network; the SIM includes a radio policy manager (RPM) provided by the network operator to manage network policies. The system also monitors connection of the communication device to the network and communications between the SIM and a processor of the communication device.…

Overcoming neighbor relation table conflicts among terrestrial and aerial cells in mobile telecommunications networks

Granted: August 13, 2024
Patent Number: 12063561
An enhanced automatic neighbor relation (“ANR”) function can estimate a plurality of terrestrial cells within a coverage area of an aerial cell. The enhanced ANR function can monitor an exchange of a serving cell unique identifier sent to a target cell and a target cell unique identifier sent to a serving cell. The enhanced ANR function can determine a serving cell type and a target cell type, wherein the serving cell type and the target cell type identify the serving cell and the…

Scaling network capability using baseband unit pooling in fifth generation networks and beyond

Granted: August 13, 2024
Patent Number: 12063549
The disclosed technology is directed towards load balancing baseband units in a communications network. A baseband physical layer 1 unit's functions are disaggregated into Layer 1 (L1) distributed units and radio units, instead of deploying full-fledged baseband units at a service' provider's service areas (cells). A load balancer scales up the number of active distributed units based on increased actual demand, and scales down the active distributed units based on decreased demand. The…

Enhancing the robustness of uplink transmission

Granted: August 13, 2024
Patent Number: 12063111
Techniques for controlling parameters for uplink transmission associated with a device to facilitate improving a communication condition metric(s) (CCM(s)) of the uplink transmission are presented. A communication management component (CMC) can determine whether CCM satisfies a first threshold CCM. If CCM does not, CMC can modify a parameter(s) to reduce a number of resource blocks or an MCS value to improve the CCM. If respective minimum threshold levels have been reached for the number…

Using user equipment data clusters and spatial temporal graphs of abnormalities for root cause analysis

Granted: August 13, 2024
Patent Number: 12061517
Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for using user equipment data clusters and spatial temporal graphs of abnormalities for root cause analysis. User equipment data can be obtained from a cellular network. A filter having a threshold can be applied to the user equipment data to obtain records. A determination is made whether the threshold is to be adaptively adjusted. If a determination is made that the threshold is not to be adjusted, the records can be added to a record set.…

Sentiment-based navigation

Granted: August 6, 2024
Patent Number: 12055404
Sentiment-based navigation is provided herein. A method can include extracting features of sensor data captured by a sensor associated with a vehicle, wherein the sensor data is representative of a subject selected from a group of subjects comprising an occupant of the vehicle and an environment in which the vehicle is located, resulting in extracted features. The method can further include determining sentiment data representative of an emotional condition of the occupant of the vehicle…

Reference signal transmission scheme for non-orthogonal multiple access systems

Granted: August 6, 2024
Patent Number: 12058058
The disclosed subject matter relates to techniques for transmitting reference signals in non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) communication protocols. In one embodiment, a method comprises determining a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) for use by a group of mobile devices in association with uplink data transmissions, wherein respective mobile devices of the group of mobile devices are configured to employ a same time and a same frequency resource of a wireless communication network…

System and method for analytics backed software defined network failure detection and synchronization

Granted: August 6, 2024
Patent Number: 12058034
A method includes capturing traffic at a source domain and a destination domain, creating a first traffic digest comprising unique packet identifiers representing traffic captured at the source domain, creating a second traffic digest comprising unique packet identifiers representing traffic captured at the destination domain, comparing the first traffic digest to the second traffic digest, if a loss is detected based on the comparing step, identify an alternative path between the source…

Integration of a device platform with a core network or a multi-access edge computing environment

Granted: August 6, 2024
Patent Number: 12058009
Techniques for integrating a device platform in a core network or MEC environment, and managing data communications associated with devices are presented. The device platform, integrated with the core network or MEC environment, can comprise a communication management component (CMC) that can manage communication of data associated with devices connected to the core network. CMC can receive data and metadata from a device, analyze the data and metadata, and, based on the analyzing and…

Based on a mode of communication, selecting a reflective surface to be used for signal propagation

Granted: August 6, 2024
Patent Number: 12057920
The technologies described herein are generally directed to using a reflective surface to reflect a signal from access point equipment to signal receiving equipment in a fifth generation (5G) network or other next generation networks. For example, a method described herein can include receiving a request from access point equipment to establish a communications session between the access point equipment and a user equipment. The method can further include identifying a reflective surface…

Facilitating transition to active mode by an idle device based on an activation request

Granted: August 6, 2024
Patent Number: 12057905
The technologies described herein are generally directed to providing, based on a paging message, radio resources to facilitate a transition to active mode by idle user equipment in a fifth generation (5G) network or other next generation networks. An example method can include identifying an idle mode activation message. The method can further include, based on the activation message, predicting that the user device is going to request an active connection. Further, the method can…

Virtual assistant-initiated conversations

Granted: August 6, 2024
Patent Number: 12057125
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method in which a processing system generates a list of communications desired by a user, and determines an attentiveness level of the user with respect to equipment of the user currently in use, to determine whether the user is available to participate in a desired communication. The method also includes accessing equipment of a target party of the communication to determine an attentiveness level of the target party with…

Multimedia piracy detection with multi-phase sampling and transformation

Granted: August 6, 2024
Patent Number: 12056217
Multimedia piracy detection (e.g., using a computerized tool) is enabled. A system can comprise a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by a processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising: determining, based on a time domain and/or a frequency domain associated with original digital media content (e.g., and respective digital transportation) and using a counterfeit digital media content model, whether digital media content comprises a counterfeit of…