Providing a roaming policy federation in a third generation partnership project (3GPP) network environment
Granted: March 25, 2025
Patent Number:
12262446
Presented herein are techniques associated with replicating an OpenRoaming™ policy federation in a Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) network environment. For example, techniques herein provide a roaming policy federation architecture for a 3GPP network environment. In one example a method is provided that may include encoding at least one multi-bit roaming policy for an identity provider and a plurality of bit-wise combinatorial permutations of the at least one multi-bit…
Systems and methods for automatically adjusting a time-based anti-replay window size
Granted: March 25, 2025
Patent Number:
12261780
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, by a network node, a packet associated with a session. The method also includes performing, by the network node, a sequence-based anti-replay check and determining, by the network node, that the sequence-based anti-replay check rejected the packet. The method further includes performing, by the network node, a time-based anti-replay check, performing, by the network node, a selective anti-replay check, and determining, by the network node,…
Incremental network intent provisioning
Granted: March 25, 2025
Patent Number:
12261743
A method of provisioning a network may include, with a network controller, identifying a first network intent of a computing network based at least in part on an execution of a user interface (UI) or API layer at a client device, and identifying a modification of at least one object within the first network intent within the UI or API layer at the client device as the first network intent is being modified. The modification defines a delta between the first network intent and a second…
Thermal modeling for cables transmitting data and power
Granted: March 25, 2025
Patent Number:
12259420
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving at a thermal modeling module, data from a Power Sourcing Equipment device (PSE) for cables extending from the PSE to Powered Devices (PDs), the cables configured to transmit power and data from the PSE to the PDs, calculating at the thermal modeling module, thermal characteristics for the cables based on the data, and identifying a thermal rise above a specified threshold at one of the cables. The data comprises real-time electrical data for…
Ethernet virtual private network using segment routing
Granted: March 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12255976
In one embodiment, Ethernet Virtual Private Network (EVPN) is implemented using Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Segment Routing (SRv6) underlay network and SRv6-enhanced Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) signaling. A particular route associated with a particular Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Segment Routing (SRv6) Segment Identifier (SID) is advertised in a particular route advertisement message of a routing protocol (e.g., BGP). The SID includes encoding representing a particular…
Mobile time-sync distribution
Granted: March 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12256355
This technology allows time synchronization in wireless networks with mobile stations. A wireless network controller transmits instructions to access points (“APs”) within the wireless network to monitor transmissions for time synchronization. One or more second APs observe fine time measurement (“FTM”) exchanges between a first AP and a mobile station. A particular second AP determines whether to perform a time synchronization with the first AP based on the detection of the FTM…
Evolved packet core to 5G core roaming using N9 interface
Granted: March 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12256274
A system is provided for supporting roaming between LTE EPC network and 5G network of a first mobile network operator by 5GC network of a second network operator. The system may include the EPC network including a serving gateway in communication with a 4G base station being in the EPC network. The system may also include the 5G network of the first mobile network operator including a vSMF in communication with a 5G base station being in the 5G network of the first network operator. The…
Binding indications for load balancing and redundancy for communications between network function instances in a 5G core network
Granted: March 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12256268
In a Fifth Generation (5G) network having an enhanced SBA (eSBA) architecture, a message with a header used to signal binding information (e.g. HTTP custom header for 3gpp-Sbi-Binding) may be received at a recipient NF (service) instance in a direct communication or via a service communication proxy (SCP) in an indirect communication. A binding indication comprising an address of an NF (service) instance may be obtained from the header. One or more alternative binding indications…
Techniques to facilitate fast roaming between a mobile network operator public wireless wide area access network and an enterprise private wireless wide area access network
Granted: March 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12256216
Presented herein are techniques to facilitate fast roaming between a mobile network operator-public (MNO-public) wireless wide area (WWA) access network and an enterprise private WWA access network. In one example, a method is provided that may include generating, by an authentication node, authentication material for a user equipment (UE) based on the UE being connected to a public WWA access network, wherein the public WWA access network is associated with a mobile network operator,…
Method to control multiple cameras in a conference room based on audio tracking and head detection data
Granted: March 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12256173
A method comprises, at a video conference system having cameras and microphone arrays each co-located with a corresponding one of the cameras: detecting a face of a participant, and estimating orientations of the face relative to the cameras, based on video captured by the cameras; receiving, from each of the microphone arrays, at least two microphone signals that represent detected audio from the participant; separately correlating the at least two microphone signals from each of the…
Systems, methods, and computer readable media for intelligent mutating admission webhook
Granted: March 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12253910
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for intelligent webhook are described herein. The intelligent webhook can insert code into one or containers associated with an application being deployed by an orchestration service. The code enables the intelligent webhook to monitor operations, including startup, of a container mutated to include the code. The intelligent webhook has knowledge of whether a mutated container failed to startup in a prior instance, and if it fails, the…
Service plane optimizations with learning-enabled flow identification
Granted: March 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12255910
The disclosed technology relates to a process for optimizing data flow within a computer network. The technology utilizes shared memory and machine learning logic to improve the efficiency of how computing resources are used during a transmission of data packets in the computer network. The shared memory is implemented during the transmission of data packets between the data plane and the service plane so that the copying of data packets after the data packets have been received and…
Name resolution triggered monitoring agent selection
Granted: March 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12255869
Methods are provided to perform a name resolution triggered monitoring agent selection for full stack observability. The methods involve obtaining a name resolution request for an enterprise service to be accessed by an endpoint device. A plurality of service instances are configured to provide the enterprise service. The methods further involve determining, based on the name resolution request, a monitoring agent from a plurality of monitoring agents of a monitoring service that…
Leveraging contextual metadata communication to improve DNS security
Granted: March 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12255868
Techniques for leveraging efficient metadata communications to improve domain name system (DNS) security are described. The DNS service uses a hash value to uniquely identify a client, and detect any change in metadata in order to keep policies up-to-date for the client. In an example method a first DNS query for a client device is intercepted. A cryptographic hash function is applied to metadata associated with the client device to generate a hash value. The hash value is added to an…
Workload migration for multipath routed network sessions
Granted: March 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12255831
Techniques for migrating on-premises and/or cloud-based workloads to follow a network session as it potentially migrates, due to multipathing techniques, across multiple edge and/or cloud datacenters. The techniques may include determining, by a controller of a network, that a traffic flow between an endpoint device and a workload has migrated to a different path of a multipath flow such that the traffic flow terminates at a different termination point than the workload. Based at least…
Local breakout of user plan function at enterprise 5G radio access network
Granted: March 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12255772
The disclosure provides a method for providing an enterprise gNB for connection to a 5G packet core network. The method includes provisioning the enterprise gNB. The enterprise gNB hosts a local user plane function (L-UPF). The method also includes configuring the 5G packet core network comprising a session management function (SMF) to select the local user plane function to service user equipment (UE) connected to the enterprise gNB.
Automated connectivity to cloud resources
Granted: March 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12255758
The present technology pertains to receiving a tag associating at least one routing domain in an on-premises site with at least one virtual network in a cloud environment associated with a cloud service provider. The present technology also pertains to the automation of populating route and propagation tables with the cloud service provider.
Optimized intra-VLAN multicast forwarding for software-defined access architectures
Granted: March 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12255750
A multicast state is generated within a Layer 2 (L2) fabric through a set of L2 tunnel router devices within the L2 fabric. The multicast state is generated without forwarding multicast traffic through Layer 3 (L3) gateways. When a data packet is received for distribution to other devices in the L2 fabric, an underlay multicast tree is defined at an L2 tunnel router device that is to serve as the multicast source for the data packet in the L2 fabric. The data packet is streamed to the…
Optical data converter
Granted: March 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12255690
A pluggable device and method are presented. The pluggable device includes a substrate, a first pin positioned on the substrate, an optical source positioned on the substrate, and an integrated circuit positioned on the substrate. The optical source produces a source optical signal and transmits the source optical signal through the first pin. The integrated circuit transmits a received optical data signal and transmits a data signal based on a portion of the optical data signal.
Using a trust anchor to verify an identity of an ASIC
Granted: March 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12254123
According to certain embodiments, a method comprises performing a posture assessment at a trust anchor in order to determine whether a hardware component is authorized to run on a product. Performing the posture assessment comprises determining a random value (K), encrypting the random value (K) using a long-term key associated with the hardware component in order to yield an encrypted value, communicating the encrypted value to the hardware component, and receiving, from the hardware…
