At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p.

At&t Mobility Ii LLC

Jason Decuir

Eric Martin Zavesky

Robert Gratz

James H Pratt

Terrel Lecesne

John Oetting

Martin Patrick McEnroe

An example method performed by a processing system includes receiving a request from a first user to render an extended reality environment, wherein the request includes a definition of a first policy that governs user behavior within the extended reality environment, rendering the extended reality environment by presenting content contributed by at least one user in the extended reality environment, monitoring the extended reality environment to ensure that the rendering results in a compliance of the extended reality environment with the first policy, detecting that a portion of the content contributed by at least one other user of the extended reality environment results in the extended reality environment failing to comply with the first policy, and modifying a presentation of the portion of content in the extended reality environment in response to the detecting, wherein the modifying results in the compliance of the extended reality environment with the first policy.

Policy definition and enforcement for extended reality media sessions

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining a content item, receiving a first token that comprises an identification of a date and a time when a first portion of the content item is obtained, a location where the first portion of the content item is obtained, or a combination thereof, and transmitting the content item and the first token to a database. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Method and apparatus for authenticating media based on tokens

An example method performed by a processing system includes retrieving a digital model of a media element from a database storing a plurality of media elements, wherein the media element is to be inserted into a scene of an audiovisual media, rendering the media element in the scene of the audiovisual media, based on the digital model of the media element and on metadata associated with the digital model to produce a rendered media element, wherein the metadata describes a characteristic of the media element and a limit on the characteristic, and inserting the rendered media element into the scene of the audiovisual media.

Consistent generation of media elements across media

Methods, computer-readable media, and processing systems are disclosed for establishing a data sharing community for an event of an event type. For example, a processing system including at least one processor may detect, via at least one data source device, a trigger condition for an event of an event type, and establish a data sharing community for the event, the data sharing community including a plurality of data sources, the plurality of data sources including the at least one data source device, and a plurality of data consumers, where the establishing includes setting respective permission levels for the data consumers. The processing system may further collect data from the plurality of data sources in accordance with the event type, and provide at least a first portion of the data to at least a first data consumer in accordance with a respective permission level of at least the first data consumer.

Event-based community creation for data sharing platform

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device that includes a processing system having a processor and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations, where the operations include determining parameters for adapting audio in the content to the device, wherein the device renders the content, and wherein the parameters are based on semantic metadata embedded in the content, adapting the audio in the content based on the parameters, and rendering the content, as adapted by the parameters, to represent a semantic in the semantic metadata. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Method for embedding and executing audio semantics

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method, including: receiving, by a processing system including a processor, a request to play content; querying, by the processing system, for matches between the content and a user library; receiving, by the processing system, recommendations for alternate content of the user library and associated cue points in the content; and presenting, by the processing system, portions of the content and presenting other portions of the content replaced with the alternate content at the associated cue points. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Method for content synchronization and replacement

A processing system having at least one processor may detect a first object in a first video of a first user and detect a second object in a second video of a second user, where the first video and the second video are part of a visual communication session between the first user and the second user. The processing system may further detect a first action in the first video relative to the first object, detect a second action in the second video relative to the second object, detect a difference between the first action and the second action, and provide a notification indicative of the difference.

Augmented reality object manipulation

In one example, a method includes presenting an extended reality (XR) experience to a plurality of user devices, wherein the presenting includes presenting a time control along with an XR stream, receiving a first signal from a first user device of the plurality of user devices via the time control, wherein the first signal indicates that a user of the first user device wishes to shift the XR stream to a first point in time that is different from a time that is currently being rendered in the XR stream, and presenting a personal XR environment to the first user device in response to the first signal, wherein the personal XR environment presents the first point in time in the XR stream to the first user device without changing a time point of the XR stream that is currently being presented to other user devices of the plurality of user devices.

Time shifting extended reality media

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device that has a processing system including a processor; and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations including: receiving media content from user equipment, wherein the media content comprises a sample of an existing work used to modify an original work; analyzing the media content using machine learning to determine a plurality of composition parameters that characterize aspects of the media content; recording the plurality of composition parameters determined, including an identification of composition parameters in the plurality of composition parameters attributable to the existing work, and an identification of composition parameters attributable to the original work, in a blockchain ledger; searching for the composition parameters in the blockchain ledger for one or more works having similar composition parameters; and reporting any works found during the searching to the user equipment.

System for ledger and parametric marketplace for algorithmic content creations

An example method includes obtaining a profile of a user using a user device to present an immersive experience, wherein the profile specifies a user reaction indicator and a value that represents a baseline for the user reaction indicator, presenting the immersive experience on the user device, receiving user state data including a current value of the user reaction indicator, determining that the current value of the user reaction indicator deviates from the value that represents the baseline by more than a threshold, in response to the determining, selecting, from among a plurality of variants for a segment of the immersive experience, a variant that is expected to cause the current value of the user reaction indicator to adjust to a value that does not deviate from the value that represents the baseline by more than the threshold, and presenting the variant that is selected on the user device.

Variable-intensity immersion for extended reality media

A method, where the method includes discovering an event where at least one device is offline and instantiating an emergency mode causing the at least one device to permit data or message aggregation. The method further includes defining a community of devices including an identity of the at least one device and establishing communication between the at least one device and a mobile aggregation device. The method further includes when the mobile aggregation device is in communication with the at least one device, aggregating a payload of a message or data from the at least one device and the community having an artificial intelligence instantiated as a virtual network function or network device, the community communicating with the mobile aggregation device to receive data from the at least one device, and the artificial intelligence being configured to assess the event based on the data obtained by the mobile aggregation device.

Data parking within offline community system

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, assembling an extended reality (XR) immersive experience for a user, determining a user experience level for the user, adjusting an immersion detail level for the XR immersive experience according to the user experience level, and communicating data defining the XR immersive experience to XR equipment of the user. Other embodiments are disclosed.

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Cedar Park, TX, United States of America

Jason Decuir