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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 13, 2026
Filed:
Mar. 14, 2023
At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p., Atlanta, GA (US);
Zhi Cui, Sugar Hill, GA (US);
Xiaowen Mang, Morganville, NJ (US);
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method in which a processing system determines a location of a failure in a communication network and a cause of the failure. If the failure cannot be resolved using a recovery feature of the network, the processing system identifies a recovery procedure for resolving the failure, and dispatches an automated vehicle to the failure location; the vehicle is provided with instructions for performing the recovery procedure, which may include replacement of a hardware component of the network. The operations also include determining whether the recovery procedure is successful; if the recovery procedure is not successful, the processing system obtains information via the vehicle regarding the failure, to facilitate human intervention to resolve the failure. Other embodiments are disclosed.