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AT&T Technical Services Company, Inc.

AT&T Technical Services Company, Inc. surprisingly shows a significant decline in its dominant Wireless Networks category, which constitutes 89.5% of its portfolio, with a -48.6% drop so far in 2026 compared to 2025, indicating a potential shift away from its core communication technologies. While most other categories also show declines or stagnation, there's a minor, albeit inconsistent, re-emergence in Databases & Information Retrieval with 2 patents so far in 2026 after two years of no activity.

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Yearly patent publications since 2023

Product themes

Product-level themes inferred from filings since 2023, with category chips showing where each theme appears. Select a theme to filter the patents below.

152 US filings (since 2023) · 5 categories · 8 themes

Advanced RF & Beam Management

Techniques and hardware architectures for optimizing the radio frequency (RF) front-end, antenna systems, and beamforming strategies in wireless networks to improve signal quality, capacity, and interference mitigation.

Wireless Networks
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80since 2023
-13.6%YoY
Airspace & Drone Traffic Management

Systems and methods for monitoring, controlling, and optimizing the movement of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and other aircraft, including real-time connectivity, flight planning, and route modification.

Wireless Networks
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60since 2023
+23.5%YoY
Automated Network Provisioning

Systems and methods for automatically deploying, configuring, and updating network devices and services, including software updates, client onboarding, and topology management across various network types.

Network Management & Monitoring
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13since 2023
-60.0%YoY
Emergency & Safety Communication Systems

Technologies for transmitting critical alerts and information during emergencies, often involving wireless networks, specialized devices, and protocols to ensure timely and targeted communication to users or emergency services.

Wireless Networks
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3since 2023
+300.0%YoY
Multimodal Data Fusion

Techniques for combining and analyzing information from multiple distinct data modalities (e.g., text, image, video, audio, sensor data) to derive richer insights or improve system performance and decision-making.

Databases & Information Retrieval
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1since 2023
new
Location-Aware Mobile Services

Mobile applications and systems leveraging wireless communication and location data (e.g., GPS, RFID, geo-fencing) to provide context-specific services, transactions, or user interactions.

Wireless Networks
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1since 2023
n/a
Distributed Cloud/Edge Processingfiltered

Techniques for distributing computational tasks, data storage, and service logic across cloud data centers, edge devices, and user equipment to improve performance, resilience, or resource utilization. This includes architectures for split rendering, decentralized ledgers, and microservices.

Web & Cloud Service Protocols
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1since 2023
n/a
Network Data Management

Systems and methods for collecting, processing, and ensuring the quality and consistency of data used for network monitoring, asset management, and operational decision-making, including conflict detection and reliability scoring.

Network Management & Monitoring
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1since 2023
n/a

Patents

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US 20230013655 A1APPLICATION
H04L41/046

METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND DEVICES FOR PROVISIONING AN APPLICATION ON A NETWORK NODE ACCORDING TO MOVEMENT PATTERNS AND APPLICATION PARAMETERS FOR MOBILE DEVICES

Filed:2022-09-23Pub:2023-01-19
Applicant:AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, identifying a plurality of mobile devices implementing an application, and identifying a group of mobile devices from among the plurality of mobile devices according to a first movement pattern of the group of mobile devices. Further aspects can include identifying a first mobile edge compute (MEC) node at a first location according to a proximity threshold that does not include a MEC agent for the application, and identifying a second MEC node at a second location that includes the MEC agent for the application according to the proximity threshold. Additional aspects can include determining a first network relative performance (NRP) metric associated with a first communications between the group of mobile devices and the second MEC node. The first communications are associated with the application. Other embodiments are disclosed.

US 20210359898 A1APPLICATION
H04L12/24

METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND DEVICES FOR PROVISIONING AN APPLICATION ON A NETWORK NODE ACCORDING TO MOVEMENT PATTERNS AND APPLICATION PARAMETERS FOR MOBILE DEVICES

Filed:2021-07-28Pub:2021-11-18
Applicant:AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, identifying a plurality of mobile devices implementing an application, and identifying a group of mobile devices from among the plurality of mobile devices according to a first movement pattern of the group of mobile devices. Further aspects can include identifying a first mobile edge compute (MEC) node at a first location according to a proximity threshold that does not include a MEC agent for the application, and identifying a second MEC node at a second location that includes the MEC agent for the application according to the proximity threshold. Additional aspects can include determining a first network relative performance (NRP) metric associated with a first communications between the group of mobile devices and the second MEC node. The first communications are associated with the application. Other embodiments are disclosed.

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