US Patent Issued to AT&T Intellectual Property I on March 24 for "Dual connection on broadband modem" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,046, issued on March 24, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Dual connection on broadband modem" was invented by Weidong Allen Hu (Austin, Texas) and Prabhakara Aithal (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a broadband modem that includes a wireless modem and a wireline modem. A traffic integrate and split unit (TISU) within the broadband modem may split uplink data between the wireless and wireline connection based on a scheduling criteria. The TISU may also integrate or combine downlink data received by the wireless and wireline modems. Othe...