At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p.

At&t Mobility Ii LLC

Acme Packet, Inc.

Min Lu

Mark A Ratcliffe

Chaoxin Charles Qiu

Martin Christopher Dolly

Gerald L Hoover

Stephanie Parlamas

Eric Ashby

Leticia D Johnson

Yi Chin

Leopold B Strahs

Richard L Khan

Russell P Sharples

Dwayne Crawford

Walter Cooper Chastain

Lakshminarashimhan Naidu

Arshad Khan

Matthew Wayne Stafford

Saul Daniel Fishman

Judith Espejo

Mario Manuel Jardon

Jyotindra N Shah

Guang Wang

Jeffrey Mikan

Hadriel S Kaplan

Feza Buyukdura

Christina I Cacioppo

Tienyu Chiu

Burwell Goode

Guy J Zenner

Canby Dautel, Jr

Nathan Thomas Denbow

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, executing an OTT application; and providing an API that enables the OTT application to connect with a native SIP stack of the device, where the OTT application negotiates with a network server for one or more QoS parameters for a communication service provided via the OTT application. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Systems and methods to provide account, billing and QoS SLA for OTT communication applications

Techniques for validating alignment between network element configuration and DNS records associated with a communication network are presented. Alignment management component (AMC) can retrieve respective configuration parameter data items relating to respective configuration parameters associated with respective resource-related identifiers, and respective metadata items associated with the respective resource-related identifiers, from a configuration data store; and retrieve respective DNS records from respective DNS name servers, based on analyzing the respective metadata items associated with respective DNS records. For each resource-related identifier that is supposed to have a corresponding DNS record, based on the result of analyzing the respective configuration parameter data items and respective DNS records, AMC can determine whether the resource-related identifier has a corresponding DNS record stored in the DNS name server indicated by the metadata item. AMC can generate an audit report comprising a missing DNS record data item for each DNS record determined to be missing.

Validation of alignment of wireless and wireline network function configuration with domain name system records

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method in which a processing system creates a network element by consolidating a control plane including a combination of a plurality of 5G control plane functions and a plurality of IMS control plane functions with an associated user plane including a combination of a 5G user plane function (UPF) and one or more IMS user plane functions. The method also includes deploying the network element at a network edge of the service provider network, receiving a request from a user endpoint (UE) device for a network service, and attaching the UE to the network element. The network element is configured to facilitate providing the requested network service. Other embodiments are disclosed.

System and method for deployment of 5G and next-generation core with IMS core for real-time applications

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device in which a processing system defines service attributes for a function of an internet multimedia subsystem (IMS) core; the function is dedicated for providing a service to a user endpoint (UE) device. The processing system facilitates constructing a resource profile of the IMS core that includes the function; registering the function at a network repository function (NRF) associated with the IMS core; discovering the function from the NRF; obtaining a service requirement of the UE; and matching the service requirement with the service attributes in accordance with matching criteria. Other embodiments are disclosed.

System to create and manage IMS functional resource profile groups for alignment with 5G slices

A method for bundling network functions as a single microservice in a cloud environment. A service deployment manager may acquire subscriber location information associated with a subscriber or a subscriber profile associated with the subscriber. Moreover, the service deployment manager may utilize the subscriber location information or the subscriber profile to select a cloud location. For example, the cloud location may be based on load, geographical proximity, service profile, etc.

Systems and methods to deploy cloud-native microservices for communication services on scale

A system that incorporates teachings of the subject disclosure may include, for example, capturing images that are associated with a video conference communication session, obtaining a video conference policy associated with the video conference communication session, applying object pattern recognition to the images to detect an object in the images, and retrieve first replacement image content according to the video conference policy. The images can be adjusted by replacing a first portion of the images other than the detected object with the first replacement image content to generate first adjusted video content. The first adjusted video content can be provided to the first recipient communication device via the video conference communication session. Non-adjusted video content can be provided according to the video conference policy to the second recipient communication device via the video conference communication session. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Method and apparatus for providing video conferencing

A method includes initiating an emergency call, responsive to the initiating step, generating a trigger, wherein the trigger comprises a request to suspend a call restriction associated with a user device, and transmitting the trigger using a Ut interface to a server to suspend the call restriction.

System and method for device-based E911 call trigger

A presence-based capability discovery mechanism for in-call services in the rich communication services (RCS) release 6 suite of services is provided. A method can comprise receiving a unique identifier representing a communication between a first user device and a second user device, the unique identifier comprising a concatenation of a first string, a second string, and a third string, as a function of the second string, performing a look up of a first presence tuple associated with the first user device; and associating the unique identifier to first presence tuple.

In-call services using presence

Methods and apparatus to provide data network services to a non-registering endpoint are disclosed herein. A disclosed method includes, transmitting, by executing an instruction with a processor, information identifying the non-registering endpoint and a first list identifying a plurality of proxy-call session control functions to a plurality of serving-call session control functions, the plurality of proxy-call session control functions being statically assigned to process calls to the non-registering endpoint when selected by any of the plurality of serving-call session control functions. In the disclosed example method, the non-registering endpoint is unable to register with any data network. The first list can be provided to the plurality of serving-call session control functions in response to an event. Methods also include providing the data network service to the non-registering endpoint via one of the plurality of serving-call session control functions and a selected one of the plurality of proxy-call session control functions.

Methods and apparatus for providing network based services to non-registering endpoints

Many of the current IMS standards and enriched services were originally designed for the individual subscribers that are serviced by the wireless network. However, the IMS standards do not fully address the problem of providing the IMS enriched services and features to business PBX customers or wholesale customers that do not directly register to the IMS network. The present invention discloses a method for providing IMS enriched services and features to business PBX customers or wholesale customers through the use of a static provisioning and registration method.

Method and apparatus for providing network based services to non-registering endpoints

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