At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p.

At+t Corp.

At&t Mobility Ii LLC

James Ibezim

Barbara Joanne Kittredge

Dominic M Ricciardi

Vimal Patel

Harish Samarasinghe

Saul Daniel Fishman

James J Mansell

Jayanta Das

Feza Buyukdura

Glenn Petry

Vandana S Chakravarti

Amy J Rupert

Frank J Androski

Robert Stokey, Jr

Joseph Soryal

Frederick Murray Burg

Stephanie Parlamas

Martin Christopher Dolly

Robert Yaeger Peters, Jr

Robert Yaeger Peters

Gautham Natarajan

Christopher Hefele

Silvano Brewster

Lauraine M Schalk-Pizza

Barbara Leslie Banner

Thomas J Dietrich

Jay Dobin

James William Murphy

Howard Lang

Naila Jaoude

Gary A Munson

Koan Seng Chong

Neela R Atluri

Daniel Yaniro, Jr

Karen Stansbury

Derek Baylor

Nalini Humphrey

Neela R Alturi

Kevin R Honig

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, detecting, over a network, a call originating from a call originator and intended for a user of a user equipment, responsive to the detecting the call, determining whether to challenge the call originator, based on a determination to challenge the call originator, transmitting a request to the call originator, wherein the request prompts the call originator to specify an identity of the call originator and a purpose for the call, obtaining information from a call originator input responsive to the transmitting the request, deriving enhanced Caller Name or Caller ID data that includes the information, and causing the enhanced Caller Name or Caller ID data to be provided to the user equipment, thereby enabling the user of the user equipment to determine whether to answer the call. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Method and system for challenging potential unwanted calls

A method includes collecting data relating to an event, the data including a timing of the event and a location of the event, predicting attendance at the event based on the collected data, predicting network usage based on the predicted attendance of the event, instantiating virtual network resources based on the predicted network usage, collecting post event data relating to actual attendance and network metrics, comparing the post event data with the predicted attendance and predicted network usage and updating a prediction algorithm based on the comparing step.

System and method for moveable cloud cluster functionality usage and location forecasting

A system includes a super microcell configured to communicate on a mobile network and a plurality of mobile microcells in communication with the super microcell. Each of the plurality of mobile microcells are configured to move in tandem with a mobile platform. The system also includes an edge management system in communication with the super microcell and the mobile microcell, a scheduling engine in communication with the edge management system, wherein the scheduling engine configured to determine service coverage of the plurality of mobile microcells based on routes of the mobile platforms.

Mobile microcell deployment scheduler and management system

A device performs registering with a first access network to generate a first registration, detecting a triggering event, and registering with a second access network to generate a second registration while maintaining the first registration with the first access network.

Method and device for providing a mobile device with service continuity over multiple access networks

A device performs registering with a first access network to generate a first registration, detecting a triggering event, and registering with a second access network to generate a second registration while maintaining the first registration with the first access network. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, generating a tone during first communications with another communication device, providing the tone to a gateway to cause the gateway to transmit a re-invite message without the gateway providing the tone to the other communication device, receiving the re-invite message where the re-invite message includes a request for a higher bandwidth than the first communications, providing a response message to the gateway responsive to the re-invite message where the providing of the response message causes the gateway to provide the tone to the other communication device. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Method and device for managing circuit switched data calls

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, registering with a first access network to generate a first registration, detecting a triggering event, and registering with a second access network to generate a second registration while maintaining the first registration with the first access network. Other embodiments are disclosed.

A method and apparatus for providing routing of calls in a packet network, using one or more criteria extracted from signaling information to determine the routing for the calls are disclosed. The routing criteria extracted from signaling messages comprises at least one of: an access Uniform Resource Identifier, a destination phone number, a destination URI host, a calling party number, a calling party URI host, an incoming IP address, or a requested codec. An access URI and the egress URI are used to enhance routing decisions in a VoIP network. The egress URI can be used to specify egress route selections from the egress point of a VoIP network. The access URI can be used to influence the routing decisions within the VoIP network as well as the routing decisions with regard to egress routes from the egress point of the VoIP network.

Method and apparatus for providing access and egress uniform resource identifiers for routing

A method and apparatus for providing routing of calls in a packet network, e.g., a Voice over Internet Protocol (IP) network, using one or more criteria extracted from signaling information to determine the routing for the calls are disclosed. In one embodiment, the routing criteria extracted from signaling messages comprises at least one of: an access Uniform Resource Identifier, a destination phone number, a destination URI host, a calling party number, a calling party URI host, an incoming IP address, or a requested codec. An access URI and the egress URI are used to enhance routing decisions in a VoIP network. For instance, the egress URI can be used to specify egress route selections from the egress point of a VoIP network. The access URI can be used to influence the routing decisions within the VoIP network as well as the routing decisions with regard to egress routes from the egress point of the VoIP network.

A method and apparatus for providing a network based call processing manager are disclosed. For example, the method receives a call by a call processing manager deployed in a communication network, wherein the call is for a customer that subscribes to a network based call processing service. The method obtains one or more routing instructions for handling the call from an automatic call distribution system, wherein the automatic call distribution system is deployed external to the communication network. The method then forwards the one or more routing instructions to an application server that routes the call in accordance with the one or more routing instructions.

Method and apparatus for providing a network based call processing manager

A method is provided for forming a multi-media communication path between at least first, second and third communication devices coupled to a multi-media provider system during post answer call redirecting and/or teleconferencing. The method includes receiving and processing a first call request at a circuit-based portion of the multi-media provider system for forming a first communication link between the first and second communication devices. Thereafter, predetermined attributes of the first communication link may be sent to an IP-based portion of the multi-media provider system for configuring the IP-based portion of the multi-media provider system to process a subsequent request to execute post answer call redirecting and/or teleconferencing. Upon detecting the request to execute the post answer call redirecting and/or teleconferencing in the first communication link, the IP-based portion of the multi-media provider systems responds by forming the multi-media communication path between at least first, second and third communication devices.

Post answer call redirection via voice over IP

A method and apparatus for identifying and prioritizing applications and application servers in a Voice over IP network is disclosed. In a first embodiment, elements of signaling information are extracted from a call and are mapped to parameters associated with the call. These mapped parameters are then used by a service broker in a VoIP network to identify one or more application servers adapted to process the values of the respective parameter. The service broker may illustratively identify the application servers by a pointer to permit flexible reassignment of processing of a given parameter. The matched pointer/parameter combinations are then mapped to a precedence index. Then, according to this precedence index, the aforementioned pointers are mapped to specific addresses of application servers and the elements of signaling information are forwarded to those addresses for processing of applications.

Method for service processor discrimination and precedence in a Voice-over-Internet-Protocol (VoIP) network

A method and apparatus for enabling a network provider, in concert with IP technology and protocols, to provide the ability to offer a simple pre-answer or post-answer call redirection, such as call transfer, to customers with IP endpoints is disclosed. The present invention allows call transfers to be initiated from an IP endpoint but processed in the packet network, e.g., the VoIP network instead of being processed by the endpoint. When a redirecting party (RP) receives a call from a calling party (CP), the RP simply sends a VoIP signaling message to the network to initiate a call transfer to redirect the call from the CP to a TP instead and the network will complete the call transfer on behalf of the RP.

Method and apparatus for providing internet protocol call transfer in communication networks

Methods of managing media server resources that may be used for VoIP calls are disclosed. In an embodiment, a media server resource broker receives a request for a set of media server resources from an application server. The media server resource broker determines the service request should be handled by a first media server based on the type of request and the availability of the first media server and provides the address of the first media server to the application server. The media server resource broker updates records regarding an assignment level of the first media servers to reflect the most recent request. When the call is complete and the resources become idle, the media server resource broker can update the assignment level to reflect the increase in availability of resources in the first media server.

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James Ibezim