US Patent Issued to AT&T Intellectual Property I on May 6 for "Phantom call reduction for cellular networks" (New Jersey, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,861, issued on May 6, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Phantom call reduction for cellular networks" was invented by Manoop Talasila (Branchburg, N.J.), Mukesh Mantan (Irving, Texas) and Anwar Syed Aftab (Budd Lake, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The described technology is generally directed towards reducing unwanted cellular network activities, such as phantom 911 calls or other unwanted cellular network activities. Machine learning models described herein can be trained, using device level data and network level data, to identify devices that are likely to engage in an unwanted cellular network acti...