Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Zte (usa) Inc.

Zte Corporation

Verizon Services Organization Inc.

Verizon Services Corporation

Bhumip Khasnabish

Rohit Shirish Saraf

Takkin G Yum

David C Wang

John Aceron

Nabeel Cocker

Serhad Doken

Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in content providing, streaming and/or hosting systems supported by or configured with devices, servers and/or platforms. The disclosed systems and methods provide a novel conference framework that automatically determines and prioritizes speaker allocation within a conference in order to remedy and/or avoid conflicts between speakers so that a clear and decisive dialog can occur. The disclosed conference framework balances a determined weighting factor and queue management ranking of the conference to provide a prioritized speaker queue that enables all participants to speak without conflict or interruption. The disclosed systems and methods enable a prioritized, conflict-resolution based conferencing environment where orderly conferencing can occur while maintaining each participants rights to participate accordingly.

Computerized system and method for video conferencing priority and allocation using mobile edge computing

Provided are systems and methods for performing dynamic spectrum allocation and state shifting in order to provide high quality stateful services to user equipment ('UE') that access the stateful services from different network locations. The dynamic spectrum allocation and state shifting may include tracking mobility of a UE accessing a stateful service using a first allocation of spectrum from a first Radio Access Network ('RAN'), predicting continued stateful service access via a second RAN, determining latency requirements of the stateful service, selecting a second allocation of spectrum at the second RAN with a frequency range that provides a first amount of latency, transferring the stateful service state to a Multi-Access Edge Computing (&#x201c;MEC&#x201d;) location that provides a second amount of latency for services accessed via the second RAN such that the first and second amounts of latency satisfy the performance requirements of the stateful service.

Systems and methods for ubiquitous availability of high quality stateful services across a network

Systems and methods provide an adaptive avatar-based real-time holographic communication service. End devices implement a customized avatar for holographic communications. With the assistance of a network edge platform, a user's facial motions and gestures are extracted in real time and applied to the customized avatar in the form of an augmented-reality-based or virtual-reality-based holographic entity. When a connection to the network edge platform is interrupted or not available, a master holographic entity provides a graceful fallback to a less resource-intensive avatar presentation using, for example, a user's prerecorded motions as a basis for rendering avatar movement. The customized avatar may be automatically adjusted/altered depending on with whom a user is communicating (e.g., a friend vs. a business associate) or a purpose for the communication (e.g., a professional meeting vs. a social activity).

Methods and system for adaptive avatar-based real-time holographic communication

Systems and methods provide an intelligent vehicle to everything (iV2X) service that ensures robust communication of teleoperations and other data. An edge slice proxy system is used to incorporate edge platforms into network slicing considerations. A network device may receive a request for a connection from an end device, such as a vehicle requiring the iV2X service, via wireless signals. The network device may detect that the request is a request for an iV2X service and assign the end device to a network slice that supports stateful and robust iV2X services. The network slice may include one of the virtual network functions executed on the edge platform.

Methods and system for robust service architecture for vehicle-to-everything communications

Systems and methods described herein perform computer vision (CV) model training in a distributed edge network. Regional Multi-access Edge Compute (MEC) clusters are provided with a local copy of a CV model and a local synthetic training data generator. A MEC cluster receives client data requiring computer vision and applies the local copy of the CV model to the client data. The MEC cluster detects an exception to the local copy of the CV model and generates local synthetic training data for the exception. The MEC cluster updates, based on the local synthetic training data, the local copy of the CV model to form an updated local CV model. The MEC cluster sends the local synthetic training data and the updated local CV model to a central network. The central network uses the local synthetic training data to update a master CV model and any other interconnected CV models.

Methods and system for training and reinforcing computer vision models using distributed computing

A system for implementing VoIP over a cloud-based network includes a first edge proxy server operatively connected to a plurality of target proxy servers to receive resource information from one or more of the target proxy servers. Each target proxy server is associated with the cloud-based network. A first endpoint is operatively connected to the first edge proxy server and is configured for voice communications with a second endpoint. The voice communications are facilitated by the first edge proxy server using the received resource information.

Method and system for implementing integrated voice over internet protocol in a cloud-based network

An approach is provided for receiving information from a plurality of communication services in a plurality of communication service formats and adjusting the information into another communication service format that is configured for receipt by a device and for communication to a user. A transmission session is established between a device and one of the plurality of communication services. Information from the one communication service is adjusted from a first communication service format into the another communication service format, seamlessly.

Device optimized transmission and reception for multi-mode, multi-media communications

A system and method for cloud-based implementation of control of focused overload of network elements is disclosed. Resource blocks are obtained for a signaling part of a network element from a variety of networked resources. The resource blocks are integrated into a pool and a unified view is presented to applications and services communicating with the signaling part of the network element. The signaling part of the network element controls allocation of resources from a media part of the network element via instructions over virtual private network links. Resource blocks for the media part of the network element are obtained from a variety of networked resources, wherein the resource blocks are integrated into a pool and a unified view is presented to the signaling part of the network element. The media part of the network element uses the resource blocks for the applications and services for a duration of time, and additional borrowed resources are released after successful utilization.

System and method for cloud-based implementation of control of focused overload of network element (COFO-NE)

A system and method for cloud-based implementation of control of focused overload of service elements is disclosed. Resource blocks are obtained for a signaling part of a service element from a variety of networked resources. The signaling part of the service element controls allocation of resources from a media part of the service element via instructions over virtual private network links. Resource blocks for the media part of the service element are obtained from a variety of networked resources, wherein the resource blocks are integrated into a pool and a unified view is presented to the signaling part of the service element. The media part of the service element uses the resource blocks for the applications and services for a specific (e.g., session or transaction length) duration of time, and additional borrowed resources are released after successful utilization.

System and method for cloud-based implementation of control of focused overload of service element (COFO-SE) via explicit (or virtualized) machine-to-machine (M2M) gateway element

A system and method for implementing distributed virtual-resource-based (cloud-based) session border gateway (SBG) functions are presented. Because no dedicated physical resources need to be committed for implementation of the SBG features and functions, as in traditional border gateway functions implementations, the invention has significant cost, resource allocation, integration, and operational advantages over traditional methods. In addition, new features and functions can be easily developed and integrated with the Cloud-Based SBG (CB-SBG) implementations very cost-effectively.

System and method for cloud-based session border gateway implementation

A method for determining and then abstracting the requirements for the interface between virtual network entity or element (VNE) and Network Hypervisor (NHV) is described. The abstraction helps creation of an open and interoperable VNE-NHV environment because suitable interworking Apps for interface can now be easily invoked on the basis of instantaneous demands from the services. Automation of configuration together with assignment of VNEs mitigates the impact of limitation of resources in any network. Once an NHV is created and the VNEs&#x2014;irrespective of their domains&#x2014;are attached to it, the VNEs can be utilized by the services seamlessly.

Method and system for determining requirements for interface between virtual network elements and network hypervisor for seamless (distributed) virtual network resources management

An exemplary method includes at least on network element of a first network domain exchanging signaling and media border processing information with at least one network element of a second network domain by way of a secure packet-switched connection, exchanging service policy information with the at least one network element of the second network domain by way of the secure packet-switched connection, peering sessions associated with different service types between the first network domain and the second network domain by way of a packet-switched network-to-network interconnection interface ('NNII') in accordance with the exchanged signaling and media border processing information, and enforcing different performance threshold specified by the service policy information for peering the sessions associated with the different service types.

Packet-switched network-to-network interconnection interface

Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a system and apparatus for tracking media content (storage) and its cache (that is synched with the original content) in a large-scale wide-area distributed network. The system includes at least one mini tracker which is configured to keep information on the location of the content and to distribute this information to micro trackers in a first jurisdiction. The system also includes at least one zone tracker which is configured to keep information on the location of the content in a region and to distribute this information to mini trackers in a second jurisdiction. The system further includes a master tracker which is configured to keep information on the location of the content in all regions in a third jurisdiction to distribute this information to zone trackers in the third jurisdiction. The micro tracker (in wired or mobile end device/point) is configured to obtain location information from at least one of the mini tracker or zone tracker if a primary source malfunctions.

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