AT&T Patent Grants

Methods and apparatus to provide a distributed firewall in a network

Granted: December 10, 2024
Patent Number: 12166746
Distributed firewalls in a network are disclosed. Example firewall controllers disclosed herein are to instruct a first network node of a software-defined network to implement a first firewall instance of a distributed firewall, the first network node to implement the first firewall instance with a first virtual machine. Disclosed example firewall controllers are also to configure a second network node of the software-defined network to route network traffic through the first firewall…

Roaming mobile device service steering

Granted: December 10, 2024
Patent Number: 12167495
The disclosed technology is directed towards intelligently steering a roaming mobile communications device to a roaming carrier that is preferred by the mobile device's home network. When a mobile device requests to connect to a first visited network, decision logic of the home network determines whether the first visited network is the preferred visited network. If not, the home network returns a steer message (via the first visited network) to steer the mobile device to a preferred…

Method and system for dynamic link aggregation

Granted: December 10, 2024
Patent Number: 12167486
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, determining, by a wireless router or a wireless access point (WAP) associated with a fixed network connection, that a network condition is satisfied, based on the determining that the network condition is satisfied, detecting for available networks operating in licensed spectrum and available networks operating in unlicensed spectrum, responsive to the detecting, identifying a first available network operating in licensed…

Facilitation of local disaster mobile edge computing resiliency for 5G or other next generation network

Granted: December 10, 2024
Patent Number: 12167314
Local weather information such as a nationwide emergency network for first responders can enable first responders to communicate nationally with a single network, linking to suppliers, utilities, and weather information. The system disclosed herein can provide data to first responders and data from first responders can provide insights into local conditions that can be utilized by edge data centers. Adding first responder data can improve the processing speed of moving of edge-based…

Multi-operator radio access network

Granted: December 10, 2024
Patent Number: 12167284
A processing system of a radio access network may obtain an attach request from a user equipment to the radio access network, identify a first cellular core network of a first mobile network operator associated with the user equipment from among a plurality of cellular core networks of a plurality of mobile network operators in communication with the radio access network, generate a first record that includes an identifier of the user equipment, at least one quality class indicator, and…

Transport protocol for latency sensitive applications

Granted: December 10, 2024
Patent Number: 12167276
The described technology is generally directed towards a transport protocol for latency sensitive applications. The disclosed transport protocol is “semi-reliable” in that it allows for specification of an importance of data being transmitted, thereby allowing important data to be sent reliably, while other data can be dropped if necessary, e.g., under bad network conditions. A deadline can be specified for such other data, and if the other data cannot be sent prior to the deadline,…

5G edge cloud network design

Granted: December 10, 2024
Patent Number: 12167250
Systems and methods may use a math programming model for designing an edge cloud network. The edge cloud network design may depend on various factors, including the number of edge cloud nodes, edge cloud node location, or traffic coverage, among other things.

Intelligent media content playback

Granted: December 10, 2024
Patent Number: 12167094
The disclosed technology is directed towards creating a media content presentation for playback, based on user specified input criteria and playback instructions. A user specifies input criteria related to media source data. The media source data is accessed, and further based on the input criterion, matching segments (e.g., scenes and audio) are determined from metadata information that describes the segments; the media playback content is generated from the matching segments. A user…

Automated content selection for groups

Granted: December 10, 2024
Patent Number: 12167086
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a system and method for selecting media content for a group of persons located at a venue. The system and method identify a plurality of viewers in a vicinity of a venue that has one or more display devices from location data and extracts a content viewing preference of each viewer from their profile data. The process includes aggregating the content viewing preference of each of the plurality of viewers to generate an…

Facilitating panoramic video streaming with brain-computer interactions

Granted: December 10, 2024
Patent Number: 12167066
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining one or more signals, the one or more signals being based upon brain activity of a viewer while the viewer is viewing media content; predicting, based upon the one or more signals, a first predicted desired viewport of the viewer; obtaining head movement data associated with the media content; predicting, based upon the head movement data, a second predicted desired viewport of the viewer; comparing the first predicted…

System for satellite discovery and decommission of orbital obstructions

Granted: December 10, 2024
Patent Number: 12166537
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a machine-readable medium with executable instructions that facilitate performance of operations by a processor including receiving a registration for a trajectory of a satellite; estimating a zone of occupancy at a future time for the satellite; determining an interference of the satellite from the zone of occupancy at the future time; determining a deconfliction for minimizing or eliminating the interference; and sending the…

Providing and using a digital asset delivery service

Granted: December 10, 2024
Patent Number: 12165197
Providing and using a digital asset delivery service can include obtaining a digital asset delivery request that identifies a digital asset that is to be provided to a recipient device, the recipient device, and delivery requirements associated with providing the digital asset to the recipient device. A data source and a network resource via which the data source is to provide the digital asset to the recipient device can be determined, where the data source and the network resource are…

System and method for hybrid question answering over knowledge graph

Granted: December 10, 2024
Patent Number: 12164873
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, identifying an entity of a natural language question, locating a node of a knowledge graph corresponding to the entity, and generating a candidate answer set including a group of other entities located a predetermined proximity to the node. Contextual information for the group of other entities is determined from the knowledge graph, and the natural language question and contextual information are separately encoded to obtain…

Controlling access to datasets described in a cryptographically signed record

Granted: December 10, 2024
Patent Number: 12164659
In a dataset exchange environment in which datasets are available for exchange or transformation, a dataset validation platform may be configured to update a cryptographically signed record based on each dataset that is available via the data exchange environment. The dataset validation platform may be further configured to control access to the datasets based on whether a request to access a particular dataset is compliant with an availability requirement of the particular dataset. The…

Injection molded dielectric antenna formed with an antenna mold that compensates the dielectric during curing

Granted: December 10, 2024
Patent Number: 12162190
In accordance with one or more embodiments, a method includes injection molding of a dielectric material in a pre-distorted antenna mold; and curing the dielectric material. The pre-distorted dielectric mold has a shape that compensates for shape distortion of the dielectric material during the curing.

Vehicular traffic flow optimization

Granted: December 3, 2024
Patent Number: 12158349
An architecture to maximize vehicular traffic flow. A method comprises receiving from database equipment a key performance indicator value representing an aggregation of connections that exist between serving equipment situated in a first vicinity of a first area and a group of user equipment traveling through the first vicinity, based on the key performance indicator value, generating a density map for the first vicinity, overlaying the density map over a group of roadways associated…

Correlating compromised home internet of things devices with distributed denial of service attacks

Granted: December 3, 2024
Patent Number: 12160445
A distributed denial of service (“DDoS”) attack profiler can determine a plurality of DDoS attack properties associated with a DDoS attack that utilizes an Internet of Things (“IoT”) device operating in communication with a home gateway. The DDoS attack profiler can create a DDoS attack profile and can provide a DDoS attack report based upon the DDoS attack profile to a correlator. An IoT device profiler can determine a plurality of IoT device properties and can create, based…

Apparatuses and methods to facilitate notifications in relation to data from multiple sources

Granted: December 3, 2024
Patent Number: 12160412
Processing data resulting from an execution of a plurality of different applications to identify at least one notification that is to be provided to a user of a client device, identifying criteria associated with the user, the criteria including a role of the user within an organization and a preference of the user, determining a characteristic associated with the at least one notification based on the identifying of the criteria, and providing the at least one notification having the…

Systems and methods for intelligent power distribution

Granted: December 3, 2024
Patent Number: 12160136
Methods and systems for providing intelligent power distribution. A distribution point unit is connected to a plurality of user units in a telecommunications system. A loss of power to the distribution point unit is detected. It is determined that at least one user unit has backup power. Based on a determination that at least one user unit has backup power, a power mode for the distribution point unit is selected. The power mode is implemented on the distribution point unit.

Network zone excess capacity utilization for network-connected vehicles and multi-participant extended reality experiences

Granted: December 3, 2024
Patent Number: 12159534
A processing system including at least one processor may identify a network zone with excess capacity, the network zone comprising a plurality of network components of a telecommunication network, transmit an invitation to a set of entities to utilize the network zone to obtain at least one network service at a geographic location of the network zone, configure at least one network component of the plurality of network components in accordance with an anticipated network demand from the…