US Patent Issued to AT&T Intellectual Property I on July 21 for "Method and apparatus for managing customer premises traffic" (Georgia, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,567, issued on July 21, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Method and apparatus for managing customer premises traffic" was invented by Kim Haislip (Stone Mountain, Ga.), Christina Cacioppo (Freehold, N.J.) and Shiv Kumar (Marlboro, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, detecting data traffic from a wireless device located in a customer premise, determining from characteristics of the data traffic whether to route the data traffic to a public network external to the customer premise or route the data traffic to a local network in the customer premise, ...