AT&T Patent Grants

Portable generator dispatch recommendation engine

Granted: June 4, 2024
Patent Number: 12003980
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…

Intercepting and challenging unwanted phone calls

Granted: June 4, 2024
Patent Number: 12003667
A call challenger can receive a user input from a called party identity to opt-in to a call challenge service, and a second user input of a keyword. When the call challenger receives a call directed to a user equipment of the called party identity, the call challenger can prompt the calling party to provide an audible response. In response to a receipt of the audible response, the call challenger can convert the audible response to a text. The call challenger can compare the text with…

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.

Indicating frequency and time domain resources in communication systems with multiple transmission points

Granted: June 4, 2024
Patent Number: 12003291
The technologies described herein are generally directed toward facilitating indicating frequency and time domain resources in communication systems with multiple transmission points. According to an embodiment, a system can comprise a processor and a memory that can store executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations. The operations can include determining a first and a second transmission resource to use for transmission of a signal…

Constructing machine learning models

Granted: June 4, 2024
Patent Number: 12001930
An example method includes initializing a configuration file for a machine learning model, wherein the initializing is performed in response to receiving a request from a user, and wherein the configuration file comprises a plurality of sections that is configurable by the user, configuring at least one parameter of a feature engineering rules section of the configuration file, wherein the configuring the at least one parameter of the feature engineering rules section is based on a first…

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…

Facilitation of security for electronic subscriber identity module for 5G or other next generation network

Granted: May 28, 2024
Patent Number: 11997753
Electronic subscriber identity modules (eSIM) can be more susceptible to hackers and more vulnerable than physical subscriber identity modules. The current disclosure discusses systems and methods to facilitate eSIM security by utilizing a management software application (MSA) hosted on a mobile device. This MSA can cross-reference eSIM registration data with mobile device signature data to determine if the correct user identity is associated with mobile device prior to an eSIM being…

Detection of unlikely travel of mobile devices indicative of fraudulent mobile device usage

Granted: May 28, 2024
Patent Number: 11997756
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…

Secure pipeline-based data delivery

Granted: May 28, 2024
Patent Number: 11995035
An example method includes receiving a plurality of data request specifications from a plurality of user endpoint devices of requesting users, aggregating a subset of the plurality of data request specifications which share a similarity into a super request, retrieving a plurality of datasets, wherein the plurality of datasets is needed to fulfill the super request, aggregating the plurality of datasets into a single data superset, and delivering the single data superset to the plurality…

V2X network communication

Granted: May 28, 2024
Patent Number: 11997567
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…

Geospatial-based forecasting for access point deployments

Granted: May 28, 2024
Patent Number: 11997508
A processing system may obtain usage volume information for endpoint devices for at least one cell site of a cellular network, determine at least one earning value of the at least one cell site based upon a summation of an earning metric of each of the endpoint devices for the at least one cell site, the earning metric comprising for each of the endpoint devices in a given time period: a total earning for the cellular network from the endpoint device times a ratio of the usage volume via…

Early termination scheme for blind decoding of a downlink control channel

Granted: May 28, 2024
Patent Number: 11997041
An early termination system for blind decoding is provided to decrease the computational resources utilized when decoding the physical resources, and decrease the time spent decoding. A blind decoding priority list can be used by the mobile device to preferentially decode specific physical resource elements as it specifies the order of all the candidate physical downlink control channels (PDCCHs). When the physical resource elements are decoded, if there is no more downlink control…

Method and system for determining multiple- input-multiple-output (MIMO) modes

Granted: May 28, 2024
Patent Number: 11996958
Identifying a coherence time associated with a user equipment (UE) and a coherence bandwidth associated with the UE, determining a coherence block based on the coherence time and the coherence bandwidth, determining whether the coherence block satisfies a threshold, based on a first determination that the coherence block satisfies the threshold, employing a plurality of modular antenna arrays in multi-user (Mu)-multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) for the UE, and, based on a second…

Apparatuses and methods for facilitating communications using a single hollow core fiber combining module

Granted: May 28, 2024
Patent Number: 11996888
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, causing, by a processing system including a processor, a first optical signal to be conveyed within a first communication device from a first component of the first communication device to a second component of the first communication device via a first fiber including a first hollow core fiber, and causing, by the processing system, the first optical signal to be transmitted from the first communication device to a second…

System for contextual diminished reality for meta verse immersions

Granted: May 28, 2024
Patent Number: 11995739
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…

Machine learning model understanding as-a-service

Granted: May 28, 2024
Patent Number: 11995518
Concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to machine learning model understanding as-a-service. According to one aspect of the concepts and technologies disclosed herein, a model understanding as-a-service system can receive, from a user system, a service request that includes a machine learning model created for a user associated with the user system. The model understanding as-a-service system can conduct an analysis of the machine learning model in accordance with the…

Secure CPU architecture using encryption of return addresses

Granted: May 28, 2024
Patent Number: 11995220
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, identifying, during a CPU's execution of a first program, a branching instruction of the first program that redirects execution to a second program. Responsive to the identifying of the branching instruction, a return address of a next instruction of the first program is encrypted. The encrypted return address is transferred to the second program without the CPU retaining a record of the return address. The encrypted return…

Event-based community creation for data sharing platform

Granted: May 28, 2024
Patent Number: 11995213
Methods, computer-readable media, and processing systems are disclosed for establishing a data sharing community for an event of an event type. For example, a processing system including at least one processor may detect, via at least one data source device, a trigger condition for an event of an event type, and establish a data sharing community for the event, the data sharing community including a plurality of data sources, the plurality of data sources including the at least one data…