AT&T Patent Grants

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…

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…

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,…

Generating a core instance at a first access network core configurator to facilitate operation of a second access network

Granted: December 10, 2024
Patent Number: 12167260
Generating a core instance via a first access network device of a first access network, wherein the core instance facilitates operation of a second access network via a second access network device of the second access network is disclosed. Generally, implementing a core network can be highly resource intensive, e.g., high labor, equipment, and monetary costs. The level of resources that are conventionally committed in developing a core instance can be a significant barrier for many…

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.

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…

Network connection activation/deactivation platform

Granted: December 10, 2024
Patent Number: 12166827
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, connecting a plurality of subscriber networks via switched, shared, or dedicated Ethernet connections using a wired network, where the plurality of subscriber networks includes a first network and a second network, providing a provisioning and activation application that enables a user to selectively activate or deactivate a connection to one or more of the plurality of subscriber networks or a cloud service provider, as a first…

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…

Emergency ad hoc device communication monitoring

Granted: December 10, 2024
Patent Number: 12165238
The disclosed technology is directed towards presenting communications data to a responding entity that are relevant to an emergency situation at an emergency location. The communications data can be obtained from communications (e.g., text messages, transmitted video, voice calls and the like) that involve at least one user device at the situation, including communications that do not involve the responding entity. Users may opt in to such an emergency service to allow access to their…

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…

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…

Peer-to-peer network for telecommunication network traffic rerouting

Granted: December 3, 2024
Patent Number: 12160468
Devices, computer-readable media and methods are disclosed for establishing a peer-to-peer network for rerouting network traffic of a telecommunication network during a network disruption. For example, a processing system may detect a network disruption between a first device and a second device of the telecommunication network. The processing system may identify a first peering device having a connection to the first device of the telecommunication network, identify a second peering…

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…