US Patent Issued to AT&T Intellectual Property I on July 28 for "System and method for associating Wi-Fi with specific services" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,143, issued on July 28, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"System and method for associating Wi-Fi with specific services" was invented by Ronak Shah (Issaquah, Wash.) and Richard Zaffino (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a mobile device, with a processing system including a processor; and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations, including: initializing a wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) radio; checking whether a Wi-Fi connection with a Wi-Fi access point i...