Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Cellco Partnership

Mohammad Raheel Khalid

Syed Meeran Kamal

Ali Jaafar

Lama Hewage Ravi Prathapa Chandrasiri

Christian Egeler

Samuel Charles Mindlin

Samir S Vaidya

Kunal Jathal

Ji Hoon Kim

Xavier Hansen

Steven L Smith

Paul Berman

Denny Breitenfeld

Mauricio Pati Caldeira De Andrada

Dan Sun

Shan Anis

Cory Michael Bruno

Sm Masudur Rahman

Manuel Enrique Caceres

Sergey Virodov

Scott David Brown

Yongsheng Pan

Yuk Lun Li

Zhengfang Chen

Alagu Periyannan

Michael Lodato

Pai Moodlagiri

Rene Sepulveda

David G Skuratowicz

Selina Hu

Jonathan A Globerson

Vito Joseph Messina

Oliver S Castaneda

John Gu

Jyotsna Kachroo

Ravi K Sharma

Vinaya Kumar Polavarapu

Anbazhagan Palani

William Robert Davey

Danny C Lui

Paul Duree

Carl L Keifer, Iii

Alexandr Virodov

Craig Elliott Brown

William Patrick Dildine

Yadushri Baliyan

Richard Christopher Lamb

Kenneth W Musante

Joseph M Knight

Christopher M Schmidt

Taussif Khan

Raghuram Parvataneni

Weimin Liu

Venkat Gaddam

Dayong He

Kevin Donnellan

Layton R Diament

Indraneel Sen

David B Murray

Masudur Rahman

David J Strumwasser

John P Chin

Shiva Narayanabhatla

Jeffrey Dietel

Christopher M Perry

Rosemary McNally

Ansar Kassim

Sonal R Gandhi

Erica Ann Martinez

Masudur Sm Rahman

Marlene Kay Tan Enright

Stephen R Szabo

Carl Keifer

Mark Maslyn

Marlene Kay Enright

An illustrative interactive content provider system transmits a live video stream to an interactive content player device, and, during the transmitting of the live video stream, provides an executable data object to the interactive content player device. The executable data object includes an interactive content instance configured to be presented within a 3D virtual playing area that bounds at least one virtual object of the interactive content instance. The interactive content provider system directs the interactive content player device to execute the executable data object by overlaying the 3D virtual playing area of the interactive content instance onto a presentation of the live video stream. Corresponding methods and systems are disclosed for both the interactive content provider system and the interactive content player device.

Methods and systems for interactive content delivery in connection with a live video stream

An illustrative communication provider system determines that a first virtual location of a first avatar in a shared virtual space is proximate to a second virtual location of a second avatar in the shared virtual space. The first avatar represents a first user and the second avatar represents a second user located remotely from the first user. The communication provider system detects an availability status of the second user, and, based on the availability status of the second user and the determination that the first virtual location of the first avatar is proximate to the second virtual location of the second avatar, the communication provider system provides audio content for presentation to the second user. The audio content is representative of a spoken communication by the first user. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed.

Methods and systems for providing communication between users based on virtual proximity and availability status

Systems and methods provide a provisioning framework for a distributed graphics processing unit (GPU) service. A network device in a network receives, from an application, a service request for multi-access edge compute (MEC)-based virtual graphic processing unit (vGPU) services. The network device receives real-time utilization data from multiple MEC clusters in different MEC network locations and generates a utilization view of the multiple MEC clusters in the different MEC network locations. The network device selects, based on the real-time utilization view, one of the different MEC network locations to provide the vGPU services and instructs a of the multiple MEC clusters in the one of the different MEC network locations to perform container provisioning and service provisioning for the vGPU services.

System and methods for distributed GPU using Multi-access Edge Compute services

Embodiments described herein provide for the leveraging of edge-based resources (e.g., processing, memory, storage, and/or other resources of one or more Multi-Access/Mobile Edge Computing devices ('MECs'), such as MECs associated with a radio access network ('RAN') of a wireless network) to process data from and/or provide instructions to microcontroller devices, System on Chip (&#x201c;SoC&#x201d;) devices, configurable logic boards, Internet of Things (&#x201c;IoT&#x201d;) devices, and/or other types of devices or systems. For example, embodiments described herein may provide for the creation and configuration of logical devices or systems based on one or more microcontrollers, SoC devices, etc., edge-based processing of sensor data and/or other types of data received or generated by the microcontrollers, SoC devices, etc., and the generation of instructions to control physical devices communicatively coupled to the microcontrollers, SoC devices, etc.

Systems and methods for scalable edge-based microcontrollers

An illustrative collaboration space provider system defines, within a virtual collaboration space, a sound boundary associated with a particular avatar located within the virtual collaboration space. The collaboration space provider system then prevents, based on the sound boundary, at least one direction of audio communication for a user represented by the particular avatar. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed.

Sound boundaries for a virtual collaboration space

An illustrative communication provider system presents, to a first user, a communication interface that displays a representation of a shared virtual space that the first user shares with a second user. The communication provider system determines a virtual location status and an availability status for the second user. The virtual location status is representative of a virtual location of the second user within the shared virtual space. The availability status is representative of a particular availability mode included in a plurality of selectable availability modes. The communication provider system displays, within the communication interface presented to the first user, a profile icon for the second user. The profile icon indicates both the virtual location status and the availability status of the second user to the first user. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed.

Methods and systems for indicating location status and availability status within a communication interface

An illustrative frequency-domain encoder system transforms time-domain data representative of a content instance into frequency-domain data representative of the content instance. The frequency-domain data includes a plurality of complex coefficients each representing different frequency components of a plurality of frequency components incorporated by the content instance. The frequency-domain encoder system generates a frequency-domain data container that includes the complex coefficients of the frequency-domain data and metadata descriptive of the frequency-domain data. Additionally, within the frequency-domain data container, the frequency-domain encoder system integrates the complex coefficients of the frequency-domain data with timing data representative of a time-dependent feature of the content instance. Corresponding systems and methods are also disclosed.

Methods and systems for encoding frequency-domain data

An illustrative communication provider system presents, to a first user, a communication interface that displays a two-dimensional ('2D') representation of a shared virtual space that includes a 2D representation of an avatar associated with a second user. By way of the communication interface, the communication provider system receives a request by the first user to initiate a communication session of a particular communication type with the second user, and, based on the request, initiates the communication session of the particular communication type with the second user. During the initiated communication session and based on the particular communication type, the communication provider system replaces the 2D representation of the shared virtual space with a three-dimensional ('3D') representation of the shared virtual space that includes a 3D representation of the avatar associated with the second user. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed.

Methods and systems for providing a communication interface to operate in 2D and 3D modes

A device obtains previously created data content. The device unmasks and extracts one or more chain of custody blocks stored in association with the data content. The one or more chain of custody blocks includes chain of custody data identifying who, when, where, and, with what hardware and/or software, created or edited the data content. The device analyzes the one or more chain of custody blocks and validates an origination of the data content based on the analysis of the one or more chain of custody blocks.

Data content chain of custody and integrity validation

An illustrative collaboration space provider system provides a virtual collaboration experience that allows for audio communication between a plurality of users represented by a plurality of avatars located within a virtual collaboration space. The collaboration space provider system defines, based on user input from a first user included in the plurality of users and represented by a first avatar located within the virtual collaboration space, a sound boundary between a first location of the first avatar within the virtual collaboration space and a second location of a second avatar within the virtual collaboration space. Based on the sound boundary between the first and second locations, the collaboration space provider system then prevents audio communication in at least one direction between the first user and a second user represented by the second avatar. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed.

User-definable sound boundaries to regulate audio communication within a virtual collaboration space

An exemplary speech presentation system receives a simulated binaural audio signal merging together a plurality of concurrent speech instances originating from a plurality of different speakers speaking concurrently. The speech presentation system also receives acoustic propagation data representative of respective propagation effects applied, within the simulated binaural audio signal, to each of the concurrent speech instances to simulate propagation of the concurrent speech instances. Based on the acoustic propagation data, the speech presentation system extracts, from the simulated binaural audio signal, a different auto-transcribable speech signal for each of the plurality of concurrent speech instances. Additionally, based on the extracted auto-transcribable speech signals, the speech presentation system generates a different closed captioning dataset for each of the plurality of concurrent speech instances. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed.

Methods and systems for speech presentation based on simulated binaural audio signals

An exemplary system receives a composite digital asset in a first hierarchical data format, the composite digital asset including a plurality of grouped components, converts the composite digital asset to a second hierarchical data format by breaking out the grouped components into individual components and representing the individual components as a plurality of nodes and hierarchical relationships between the nodes in a graph database, and uses the composite digital asset in the second hierarchical data format to generate and stream one or more of the individual components of the composite digital asset in a flat data format over a network to a client device in response to a request, from the client device, to access the one or more of the individual components of the composite digital asset.

Systems and methods for managing and delivering digital content

A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium are described in which a edge content distribution service is provided. The edge content distribution service may include the distribution of static content among multi-access edge computing networks. The edge content distribution service may include tiered overlay networks that are correlated to performance metrics associated with application services, static contents of the application services, and/or the acquisition and delivery of the static contents. The edge content distribution service also consider available network resources at the multi-access edge computer networks and the overlay networks of the tiered architecture.

Method and system for content distribution among MEC networks

An exemplary method includes a virtual world creation system detecting a request from a user of a user computing device to experience a three-dimensional (3D) virtual world, dynamically generating, in response to the request, a 3D mesh that defines a structure of a custom 3D virtual world to be experienced by the user, and providing, by the virtual world creation system, the custom 3D virtual world for experiencing by the user. The generating of the custom 3D virtual world includes selecting, based on profile information for the user and a set of virtual world building rules, a custom set of modules for inclusion in the custom 3D virtual world, and using the selected custom set of modules to generate the 3D mesh based on the set of virtual world building rules.

Systems and methods for dynamically creating a custom virtual world

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