US Patent Issued to AT&T Intellectual Property I on July 21 for "Apparatuses and methods for reducing a size of messages pertaining to device capabilities" (Georgia, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,940, issued on July 21, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Apparatuses and methods for reducing a size of messages pertaining to device capabilities" was invented by Ye Chen (Marietta, Ga.), Hongyan Lei (Plano, Texas) and Thomas W. Henderson (Alpharetta, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, transmitting a first message that identifies a first plurality of capabilities supported by the device, based on the transmitting of the first message, obtaining a second message from a user equipment that identifies a second plurality of capabilities supported by t...