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.
Privacy, permission, and user safety management virtual assistant for a communication session
Granted: January 21, 2025
Patent Number:
12206673
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining a first user profile associated with a first user, the first user profile comprising a first privacy rule; obtaining a second user profile associated with a second user, the second user profile comprising a second privacy rule; determining which of the first privacy rule or the second privacy rule is more restrictive; setting for a first extended reality (XR) communication session a third privacy rule, the third…
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…
Storing data at edges or cloud storage with high security
Granted: January 21, 2025
Patent Number:
12204675
The disclosed technology is directed towards partitioning data and distributing the data to different storage locations, which facilitates better data security. For example, a large database of source data can be partitioned into a small enabler partition and one or more large partitions, in which a full set of the partitions is needed to reconstruct the source data to its original state. The large partition can be maintained at an edge computing facility to reduce latency, or at a cloud…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Alarm correlation and ticketing for Open reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexer networks
Granted: January 7, 2025
Patent Number:
12191981
The concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to alarm correlation and ticketing for reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexer (“ROADM”) networks. According to one aspect disclosed herein, a ROADM controller can create, based upon data associated with a plurality of ROADM network elements operating in a ROADM network, a graph of the plurality ROADM network elements. The ROADM controller can retrieve a plurality of alarms from at least a portion the plurality of ROADM…
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.
Relationship graphs for telecommunication network fraud detection
Granted: January 7, 2025
Patent Number:
12192400
A processing system may maintain a relationship graph that includes nodes and edges representing phone numbers and device identifiers having associations with the phone numbers. The processing system may obtain an identification of a first phone number or a first device identifier for a fraud evaluation and extract features from the relationship graph associated with at least one of the first phone number or the first device identifier. The plurality of features may include one or more…
