Apparatuses and methods for facilitating an identification and scheduling of resources for reduced capability devices
Granted: June 11, 2024
Patent Number:
12010035
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,…
User equipment based fast return to LTE
Granted: June 11, 2024
Patent Number:
12010573
A system for delaying or inhibiting data is provided in order to shorten the time required for a reselection process from a first communication protocol to a second communication protocol. Reselection from the first communication protocol to the second communication protocol (e.g., 3G to 4G) requires a period of time without data transfers to allow the reselection to complete. The system delays or inhibits data transfers on the mobile device until the reselection process completes or the…
Network edge cloud adjustment
Granted: June 11, 2024
Patent Number:
12010543
Adjusting a network path between a user equipment and a network edge cloud instance is disclosed. The adjustment of the network path can be based on performance of the network path. The performance of the network path can be ranked, based on performance, against other network paths. In an embodiment, the other network paths can be between the user equipment and the network edge cloud instance. Additionally, the other network paths can be between the user equipment and another network…
Security management on a mobile device
Granted: June 11, 2024
Patent Number:
12010515
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…
Method of audio-assisted field of view prediction for spherical video streaming
Granted: June 11, 2024
Patent Number:
12010504
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method for spherical video streaming over a network by a processing system including a processor, the method including prefetching audio data for rendering the spherical video; determining whether there is a single source or a plurality of sources of audio in the audio data; responsive to a determination that there is only one dominant source of the audio in the audio data, prefetching video data in a field of view centered on…
System for summary segment association and dynamic selection for viewing with a content item of interest
Granted: June 11, 2024
Patent Number:
12010406
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving information about a content item of interest to a content consumer, determining a context of the content consumer, curating a summary segment for the content consumer based on the context of the content consumer, and presenting the summary segment to the content consumer at a context-appropriate time and in a context-appropriate manner to orient the content consumer to the content item of interest at a current viewing…
Application resource allocation for wireless services
Granted: June 11, 2024
Patent Number:
12010168
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…
Biometrics hub for changing a schedule for processing biometrics data in response to detecting a power event
Granted: June 11, 2024
Patent Number:
12010115
A biometrics hub may establish a session with a first biometric device, receive first biometric data of a user from the first biometric device, establish a session with a second biometric device, receive second biometric data of the user from the second biometric device, and store the first biometric data and the second biometric data at the biometrics hub. The biometrics hub may further detect a power event associated with at least one of the first biometric device or the second…
Facilitation of enhanced channel state information estimation for 5G or other next generation network
Granted: June 11, 2024
Patent Number:
12010058
A delay doppler domain transformation can be used to estimate characteristics of a channel between a base station and a user equipment or alternatively, between the user equipment and another user equipment. Thus, the velocity and the distance position of the user equipment can be calculated. For example, a signal received in the time-frequency domain, can be converted to the delay doppler domain by the base station. In response to the conversion, the base station can estimate the…
Edge cloud resource allocation using hints from network providers
Granted: June 11, 2024
Patent Number:
12010040
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: June 11, 2024
Patent Number:
12010032
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…
Application-aware BGP path selection and forwarding
Granted: June 11, 2024
Patent Number:
12010012
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…
Automatically configuring network elements in multi-vendor and multi-domain topologies
Granted: June 11, 2024
Patent Number:
12009983
Devices, computer-readable media, and methods for automatically configuring network elements in multi-vendor and multi-domain topologies. In one example, a method includes determining a need of a communications network, where a topology of the communications network includes a plurality of network functions from at least two different vendors, predicting a subset of the plurality of network functions and respective configuration parameter values for network functions in the subset, that…
System and method to facilitate open mobile networks
Granted: June 11, 2024
Patent Number:
12009973
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…
Assistive control of network-connected devices
Granted: June 11, 2024
Patent Number:
12009941
Devices, computer-readable media, and methods for changing the state of a network-connected device in response to at least one facial gesture of a user are disclosed. For example, a processing system including at least one processor captures images of a face of a user, detects at least one facial gesture of the user from the images, determines an intention to change a state of a network-connected device from the at least one facial gesture, generates a command for the network-connected…
Adaptive repetition in wireless communication systems
Granted: June 11, 2024
Patent Number:
12009933
The described technology is generally directed towards adaptively selecting a repetition level in wireless communications, based on events to improve coverage range via the repetition level while not unnecessarily reducing throughput. One such event can include a current signal-to-noise-ratio, e.g., as reported in a channel quality indicator report from a user equipment. Another such event can comprise a number of consecutive hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgments or negative…
System and method for satellite-based masking and amplification
Granted: June 4, 2024
Patent Number:
11999512
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device that has 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 request for an observation of an overhead viewing area from an observer location; discovering an interference of a satellite with the observation of the overhead viewing area; determining possible solutions to the…
Website verification service
Granted: June 4, 2024
Patent Number:
12003497
The concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to a website verification service. A system can receive, from a web server that hosts a website, a query for a set of authentication credentials (“credentials”) to be used to verify that the website is trustworthy. The system can generate and provide the credentials to the web server. The web server can, in turn, provide the credentials to a web browser device for presentation to a user via a web browser application…
System and method for SDN orchestration validation
Granted: June 4, 2024
Patent Number:
12003366
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…
Data-powered shipwright for network cloud maintenance
Granted: June 4, 2024
Patent Number:
12003361
A system comprising a network cloud configured for a point of deployment containerized environment, a plurality of servers in communication with the network cloud, configured to establishing a point of deployment (POD) in one of the plurality of servers, receiving a determination that the POD is not operational, mapping the topology of the POD, and based on the mapping step, troubleshooting the POD in accordance with a set of rules.
