US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Nov. 3 for "Identifying SSIDs associated with captive portals" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,866, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Identifying SSIDs associated with captive portals" was invented by Ashish Kumar Shukla (Milpitas, Calif.) and Avinash Joshi (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure describes techniques for enabling an electronic device to determine whether a service set identifier (SSID) associated with a wireless access point (WAP) is associated with a captive portal. If the electronic device determines that the SSID is not associated with a captive portal, the electronic device may determine to refrain from performing a captive-portal check upon estab...