AT&T Patent Grants

Quantum artificial intelligence positioning system in a next generation public safety network

Granted: January 21, 2025
Patent Number: 12207159
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 receiving a smart contract for tracking a position of a mobile device from a quantum blockchain; issuing a token uniquely identifying location data for the position of the mobile device; receiving location data including the token from…

Using dynamic thresholds for non-mobility handovers in a fifth generation (5G) or other next generation network

Granted: January 21, 2025
Patent Number: 12207146
The technologies described herein are generally directed to modeling radio wave propagation in a fifth generation (5G) network or other next generation networks. For example, a method described herein can include, for a network application, identifying, by a system comprising a processor, a first performance characteristic of first base station equipment, wherein the first base station equipment is actively communicating with a user equipment via a first network connection. The method…

Mechanisms and apparatus for securing broadcast content distribution of time-sensitive data

Granted: January 21, 2025
Patent Number: 12206777
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, authenticating a user device based on communication over a data plane of a network, generating a decryption key, transmitting the decryption key to the user device, and transmitting encrypted content to the user device. The encrypted content may be accessible at the user device via the encryption key, potentially as a function of location and/or time. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Sequential decision analysis techniques for e-sports

Granted: January 21, 2025
Patent Number: 12205049
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, training a decision scoring model for an e-sport based on historical data for the e-sport. In various embodiments, the decision scoring model may be trained based on the historical data and on metadata associated with the e-sport. Some embodiments can include identifying a plurality of candidate in-game decision sequences based on decision parameters for a gameplay decision of an ongoing gaming session and a gaming session…

Automated generation of network data visualization dashboards

Granted: January 21, 2025
Patent Number: 12204733
The described technology is generally directed towards automated generation of network data visualization dashboards. Automation can be achieved through the use of templates and data files. Templates can be combined with any of multiple different data files to produce network data visualization dashboard files. Different combinations of templates and different data files can result in different network data visualization dashboard files. The network data visualization dashboard files can…

Using scent fingerprints and sound fingerprints for location and proximity determinations

Granted: January 21, 2025
Patent Number: 12204009
Using scent fingerprints and sound fingerprints for location and proximity determinations can include detecting a movement of a user device relative to an environment, and determining if a fingerprint associated with the user device and the environment is available. The fingerprint can include a sound fingerprint, a scent fingerprint, and usage data defining resource usage of the user device at the environment, The fingerprint associated with the user device and the environment can be…

Cellular network area optimizer

Granted: January 14, 2025
Patent Number: 12200559
The described technology is generally directed towards a cellular network area optimizer. The area optimizer observes cellular network conditions at multiple radio access network (RAN) nodes within a target area. Based on observed conditions, the area optimizer applies a set of parameter values at the multiple RAN nodes. The set of parameter values enhances the overall throughput, while maintaining or improving connection retainability and accessibility, of the multiple RAN nodes under…

Sub-band selection at cellular base station for non-overlapped or partially overlapped full duplex operation

Granted: January 14, 2025
Patent Number: 12200629
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, determining a self-interference channel response of a transceiver of a mobile base station having a transmitter and a receiver. The self-interference channel response spans multiple sub-bands of a predetermined mobile cellular frequency channel. A first sub-band of the multiple sub-bands is identified according to the self-interference channel response and, an estimate is determined, at the receiver, of a first coupled transmit…

Network slicing for private cellular networks

Granted: January 14, 2025
Patent Number: 12200614
The described technology is generally directed towards network slicing for private cellular networks (PCNs). Network slicing can be leveraged as described herein to meet security requirements and/or other policies applicable to PCNs. Network slices implemented according to this disclosure can comprise a private network slice, a public network slice, and a public safety network slice. User equipment can be provisioned with slice identifiers for the network slices, and applications at the…

Guidance to a target location

Granted: January 14, 2025
Patent Number: 12200569
Architectures and techniques are presented that can leverage network equipment (e.g., broadband provider equipment, cellular provider equipment) in order to provide enhanced guidance to a target location. This enhanced guidance can supplement existing mapping or navigation equipment. Such can be advantageous for public safety answering point entities and first responder entities as well as, potentially, for service technicians or delivery. When an entity (e.g., first responder) is…

Apparatuses and methods for facilitating network connectivity based on identified conditions

Granted: January 14, 2025
Patent Number: 12200510
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining a first report comprising first data, obtaining a second report comprising second data, analyzing at least the first data and the second data to identify characteristics of an environment where a communication device is located, based at least in part on the characteristics, determining whether dual connectivity is appropriate for providing a communication service to the communication device, resulting in a…

Managing mobile device voice over Wi-Fi handover

Granted: January 14, 2025
Patent Number: 12200476
The disclosed technology is directed towards preventing a handover of a Wi-Fi call to a Fifth Generation (5G) standalone cellular network. In one alternative, a 5G standalone usage setting is disabled on a mobile device when Wi-Fi calling is enabled on the mobile device. In another alternative, a 5G standalone usage setting is disabled on a mobile device when Wi-Fi calling is enabled on the mobile device and the mobile device is connected to a Wi-Fi network, which facilitates camping on…

Methods, systems, and devices for federated blockchain-enabled handover authentication

Granted: January 14, 2025
Patent Number: 12200473
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, authenticating, by a federated blockchain controller, a user equipment located within a cell coverage area of a network that includes heterogeneous cells. The federated blockchain controller can provide encryption data to the user equipment and corresponding authentication information to one or more multi-access edge computing (MEC) devices associated with the heterogeneous cells to enable secure and efficient handovers for the…

System and method for determination and reconstruction of video and entertainment sessions in packet data networks

Granted: January 14, 2025
Patent Number: 12200286
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, detecting a plurality uplink data packets on a network, the plurality of uplink data packets conveying application protocol messages from an application on a mobile device to an application server providing a service to the application on the mobile device over the network; providing data packets of the plurality uplink data packets to a machine learning model, the machine learning model trained to identify respective…

Apparatuses and methods for monitoring and managing messages and messaging content

Granted: January 14, 2025
Patent Number: 12199931
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, identifying a first message composed by a first user on a first user equipment that is directed to a second user of a second user equipment, identifying a preference of the second user, determining that a first content of the first message composed by the first user departs from the preference of the second user in an amount greater than a threshold, and providing, based on the determining, guidance to the first user for…

Facilitating management of secondary cell group failures in fifth generation (5G) or other advanced networks

Granted: January 14, 2025
Patent Number: 12199815
Facilitating management of secondary cell group failures in advanced networks (e.g., 5G and beyond) is provided herein. Operations of a method can comprise determining, by a system comprising a processor, that a first secondary cell group procedure attempt is unsuccessful. Further, the method can comprise facilitating, by the system, a second secondary cell group procedure attempt based on expiration of a delay timer and based on a determination that a retry attempt threshold level is…

Apparatuses and methods to balance load in communication networks based on an allocation of resources to communication devices

Granted: January 14, 2025
Patent Number: 12199756
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining a first indication of a first count of resource blocks in a first cell in which the device is located, obtaining a second indication of a second count of resource blocks allocated to the device, obtaining a third indication of a reference signal received power (RSRP) value for the device, obtaining a fourth indication of a received signal strength indicator (RSSI) value for the device, computing a first reference…

Split ledger for securing extended reality environments

Granted: January 14, 2025
Patent Number: 12197565
The concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to providing a split ledger for securing extended reality (“XR”) environments. According to one aspect, an XR server computer can create an XR environment. The XR server computer can cause a passed ledger to be populated with an environment ID associated with the XR environment. The XR server computer can cause a hash ledger to be populated with a first hash of the environment ID. The XR server computer can register a user…

Counting crowds by augmenting convolutional neural network estimates with fifth generation signal processing data

Granted: January 7, 2025
Patent Number: 12190594
An example method for estimating a number of individuals present in a crowd includes generating a density map based on an image of a crowd, using a convolutional neural network, augmenting the density map with cellular signal processing data to produce an augmented density map, and estimating a number of individuals present in the crowd, based on the augmented density map.

Bulk data processing system

Granted: January 7, 2025
Patent Number: 12193113
The system allows real time collection and processing of massive data from many network elements. It has an elastic architecture that scales horizontally to support different network sizes. The system in a uniform data format for downstream consumption. It employs a pub/sub data distribution mechanism that supports multiple concurrent downstream subscribers efficiently in real-time.