At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p.

Bellsouth Intellectual Property Corporation

At&t Mobility Ii LLC

At&t Delaware Intellectual Property Corporation, Inc.

Other

Bellsouth Corporation

At&t Bls Intellectual Property, Inc

Littlemore Technologies LLC

Facebook, Inc.

Rakuten, Inc.

Simplisafe, Inc.

Wantage Technologies LLC

Bellsouth Intellectual Property Corportion

Robert A Koch

Ari Craine

Nigel Bradley

Eric Martin Zavesky

James H Pratt

Barrett Morris Kreiner

Robert Torrence Moton, Jr

Adrianne Binh Luu

Zhi Cui

Dale W Malik

Scott Crandall Holt

Sangar Dowlatkhah

James Carlton Bedingfield, Sr

Walter Cooper Chastain

Rashmi Palamadai

Ryan L Schaub

Sameena Khan

David Archie Scott

Richard Palazzo

Ginger Li Chien

Timothy Innes

Nikhil Shreerang Marathe

Alexander MacDougall

Anna Lidzba

Brittaney Zellner

Oliver Spatscheck

Arnold Chester McQuaide, Jr

Robert G Hensey, Jr

James Carl Bedingfield, Sr

Shiejye Geoffrey Lin

Wei Wang

Michael L Bishop

Timothy Knezevich

Dennis Meek

Hamish M Caldwell

Scott M Frank

James H Gray

Richard A Anderson

Wendy Eason

Robert J Andres

Peter N Hill

Troy Paige

Steven Neil Tischer

Tan Xu

Brian M Novack

Navneet Patel

Alexander David Raji

James T Lee, Jr

Robert Bridger, Ii

Jeffrey R Kuester

Maria Adamczyk

Andre Fuetsch

Ward M Chewning, Iii

Mustafa Sinasi Bilsel

Krish Anant Prabhu

Dale W Mailk

Samuel N Zellner

Linda Ann Roberts

Hong Nguyen

Vernon Meadows

Brian Keith Daigle

W Todd Daniell

Larry Graham Kent, Jr

Robert Jackson Starr

Scott Russell Swix

John R Stefanik

Kevin Forsberg

Jerry Liu

Stephen Kenneth Sherman

Aamir M Hussain

Dave Anderson

Gail Elizabeth White

Genniman Wood

Valencia Adams

Richard Welday, Jr

Isaiah Harris, Jr

Stephen Randolph La Pierre

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, determining a first virtual location of a first avatar of a first user within a virtual environment, determining a second virtual location a second avatar of a second user within the virtual environment that is in proximity to the first virtual location, and determining that the second user has an untrusted relationship with the first user. Further embodiments include presenting on a user interface of a first communication device of the first user a group of actions for restricting personal identifiable (PI) data of the first user presented by the first avatar in the virtual environment to the second user, receiving a selection of a first action from the group of actions for restricting the PI data, and restricting presentation of the PI data in the virtual environment according to the first action. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Methods, systems, and devices to protect personal identifiable (PI) data when a user utilizes an avatar in a virtual environment

A processing system including at least one processor may gather first imaging data associated with an infrastructure item via at least a first imaging device, where the first imaging data represents a first condition of the infrastructure item, and gather second imaging data associated with the infrastructure item via at least a second imaging device, where at least one of the at least the first imaging device or the at least the second imaging device is mounted on a vehicle, and where the infrastructure item is visible from a road on which the vehicle operates. The processing system may then determine a second condition of the infrastructure item in accordance with the second imaging data, where the second condition comprises a potentially unsafe condition of the infrastructure item, and generate a report of the potentially unsafe condition of the infrastructure item in response to the determining.

Sensor-based infrastructure condition monitoring

A processing system may determine a plurality of aspects of a trip of a user, each of the plurality of aspects associated with a travel service provider of a plurality of travel service providers, identify a plurality of travel service provider applications that are available on the mobile computing device and that are associated with the plurality of travel service providers, and obtain an authorization of the user of the mobile computing device to interact with the plurality of travel service provider applications in connection with the trip. The processing system may then detect an event associated with the trip and perform, in response to detecting the event, at least one task via a second travel service provider application using a first set of data from at least a first of the plurality of travel service provider applications, where the second travel service provider application is available on the mobile computing device.

Mobile device cross-service broker

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, defining at least one requirement for a capture of source content in the physical world, generating a request for the source content in accordance with the at least one requirement, obtaining first source content from a first content generator based on the request, and generating a digital representation of the physical world based on the first source content. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Apparatuses and methods for facilitating crowd sourced content for digital simulation

The disclosed technology is directed towards efficiently identifying a first entity (e.g., a user or sensor) as a potential witness to an event. A first dataset describing event time data and event location data of an event are obtained from a first device. A second dataset describing device time data and device location data are obtained via a device associated with a second entity, e.g., a user. By analyzing the first and second datasets, e.g., for time and location intersection, the second entity can be identified as a potential witness to the event, and notified of such. Factors such as line of sight, speed and direction, audio sensing range versus event volume, and the like of the second entity can be used in determining whether the second entity is a likely witness. A witness to a live event can be identified and asked to send in live (e.g., video) evidence.

Automated event witness identification

The technology described herein is generally directed towards determining that a user is passively attending a meeting via a connected device, collecting data created during the meeting, and outputting information based on the collected data for the user to monitor the meeting. Join criteria can be associated with passive meeting attendee, and if the collected meeting data satisfies the join criteria, the attendee can transition to an active attendee. Keyword data can be used to represent information relevant to a meeting attendee. Based on collected and monitored meeting data presented during the meeting and the keyword data, the meeting can be determined to have reached a relevance/pertinence level by which action is taken to change the user from a passive attendee to an active attendee. This can include a transition period that allows a user to catch up on previous meeting information before becoming an active attendee.

Virtual meeting management

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device having a processing system including a processor; and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations of receiving a first request from a first user of a virtual reality (VR) system to enhance a presentation of a portion a VR presentation of a VR environment provided by the VR system to the first user; receiving first data describing a field of view of the first user within the VR environment; receiving second data describing a location of one or more objects within the VR environment; determining a first object of the one or more objects that has a highest score of an attention score; and enhancing the VR presentation of the object in the field of view of the first user. Other embodiments are disclosed.

System and method for contextual content prominence in virtual reality spaces

The disclosed technology is directed towards detection of personal threats to a user based on information known to a user's device and other information. A device with a personal threat application program and server communicate information, including data describing the user's current physical situation, e.g., including current location. The server and/or application program obtain data describing environmental conditions around the user's location, e.g., corresponding to a defined personal zone. The personal zone size automatically can vary based on current factors. Based on the situation and environmental data reaching a threshold threat level, a potential threat to the user can be predicted and the prediction, used to take some action, such as to send an alert to the user and/or otherwise output a warning signal. Historical data such as statistics related to the user's current location can be accessed to assist with the prediction.

Predictive personal threat levels via user device

The disclosed technology is directed towards providing guidance, e.g., point-to-point audio guidance, along an evacuation route. The presence of occupant(s) within a structure/area is monitored. If an evacuation event occurs, an evacuation route is determined for each occupant based on their current monitored starting location. Guidance is output, e.g., by various output devices along the evacuation route, which can be the safety monitors that monitor occupant presence, to guide each occupant from point-to-point along the evacuation route. For example, one monitor can be configured to hand off guidance responsibility to a next monitor along the evacuation route. The guidance can be customized for each known occupant based on their recognized features, or can be directed generally to an unknown occupant. Status information of the occupants can be provided to other occupants and to a responding entity. A responding entity can also be given directional guidance.

Monitored audio-based evacuation routes

The disclosed technology is directed towards generating an annotated visual playback of an incident. Upon obtaining notification of an incident, event data occurring in the incident zone and timeframe are obtained (e.g., collected) from sensors proximate the zone. The event data is used to annotate a visual playback captured by one or more cameras, e.g., within a timeframe ranging from some time before the incident occurred to the end of the incident. For example, a video can be presented with overlaid annotation data, each annotation describing an event as it occurred in time, in conjunction with an advancing timestamp overlay showing the time of the video frames. A simulated video, e.g., extended reality video, can also be generated, along with annotations and timeframe data, such as if captured from camera(s) from one or more various different perspectives.

Annotated incident recreation

A processing system including at least one processor may detect at least one dark zone in a vicinity of a user, determine at least one lighting feature for an illumination of the at least one dark zone in accordance with a user profile of the user, identify at least one light source to provide the illumination of the at least one dark area in accordance with the at least one lighting feature that is determined, and transmit an instruction to the at least one light source to provide the illumination of the at least one dark zone in accordance with the at least one lighting feature that is determined.

Detection and illumination of dark zones via collaborative lighting

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device having a processing system including a processor; and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations of: receiving a request from a first user of an electronic event to invoke a surrogate to control an avatar of the first user; retrieving data describing characteristics of the surrogate; and altering a presentation of the avatar for the first user made to a second user, wherein the data describing characteristics of the surrogate is used to alter the presentation of the avatar. Other embodiments are disclosed.

System and method for surrogate gameplay

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device including: a processing system including a processor; and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations of: receiving a request for a proxy player to continue gameplay on behalf of a player of a game; retrieving data describing characteristics of historical gameplay of the player; and continuing the gameplay by the proxy player, wherein the proxy player performs actions that emulate the player based on the data describing the characteristics of the historical gameplay of the player. Other embodiments are disclosed.

System and method for continuous proxy gameplay

The disclosed technology is directed towards monitoring media content, including without presenting the monitored media content via a media presentation device, or while presenting in parallel. In general, supplementary data describing the monitored media content is obtained, e.g., generated by a media server based on the content being monitored. The supplementary data is presented via a user interface for a user to monitor, e.g., as displayed text, documents, audio in or other ways such as a combination of text and images. The user interface can be a primary presentation device the user is using, and/or another user device. The supplementary data can describe scenes of video, and/or transcriptions of audio, for example. The supplementary data can be interacted with, such as to switch to present the monitored media content or a selected portion thereof. Multiple media content presentations can be monitored, with supplementary data available for each.

Media content monitoring

A processing system including at least one processor may obtain a parking request for a vehicle to park at a parking facility and may offer a plurality of parking spots of the parking facility for the vehicle, where at least one of the plurality of parking spots that is offered is a parking spot that is predicted to be available, and where the offering includes presenting information regarding predicted adjacent parking spot occupancy of the at least one of the plurality of parking spots for a duration of an intended stay of the vehicle at the parking facility. The processing system may then obtain a selection of a parking spot from among the plurality of parking spots and reserve the parking spot for the vehicle.

Predictive vehicle parking systems

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Norcross, GA, United States of America

Robert A Koch