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Publication number: US20220030397A1
Application number: 17/499,941

Abstract:
A method may include receiving content for multicasting, identifying user equipment (UE) devices to receive the content and identifying a geographical or service area associated with the identified UE devices. The method may also include determining a scheduled time for a multicast transmission of the content and transmitting, prior to the scheduled time, a message to the devices, wherein the message indicates the scheduled time. The method may further include initiating the multicast transmission of the content at the scheduled time.

Publication date: 2022-01-27
Applicant: Verizon Patent And Licensing Inc.
Inventors: Ali Mansoor Mohammed Shah

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Publication number: US20220029949A1
Application number: 17/496,864

Abstract:
Devices in enterprise-scale networks are often tracked by asset catalogs that record the physical locations of respective devices. Such tracking often involves administratively heavy communication of device deployment, and communication or recording errors may lead to missing catalog entries or entries that incorrectly identify the physical locations of the devices. Instead, a MAC address encoding may be established that maps physical locations to particular MAC addresses, such as representing a building, floor, room, row, and rack of a device in the second through sixth MAC address octets. A locator device with a network adapter featuring a selected MAC address that encodes a particular physical address may be inserted into a network device at the physical location. The physical location of the network device may thereafter be queried for the MAC addresses of connected devices, and the selected MAC address may be translated into the physical location of the network device.

Publication date: 2022-01-27
Applicant: Verizon Patent And Licensing Inc.
Inventors: Alan David Glass

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Publication number: US20220030433A1
Application number: 17/493,354

Abstract:
A computer device may include a memory configured to store instructions and a processor configured to execute the instructions to receive a request from a user equipment (UE) device to resolve a Domain Name System (DNS) query for a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) and determine that the URL corresponds to a malicious URL. The processor may be further configured to select to not resolve the DNS query in response to determining that the URL corresponds to a malicious URL and send an indication to the UE device that the URL corresponds to a malicious URL.

Publication date: 2022-01-27
Applicant: Verizon Patent And Licensing Inc.
Inventors: Anand J Shah

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