US Patent Issued to AT&T Intellectual Property I, I.P. on Feb. 17 for "On-demand private network creation and management" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,431, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I, I.P. (Atlanta).

"On-demand private network creation and management" was invented by Catherine Kalke (Rancho Mirage, Calif.) and Yupeng Jia (South Pasadena, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "On-demand private network creation and management can include detecting that the managed device has entered into a defined private network area that defines an area in which the managed device should be connected to a private network. The private network can be defined by an anchor point and boundaries around the anchor point, the boundaries defining the defined private netw...