ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,743, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).
"Low-cost energy-efficient network-managed and device-managed continuous connectivity" was invented by Rashmi Palamadai (Naperville, Ill.) and Yupeng Jia (South Pasadena, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Low-cost energy-efficient network-managed and device-managed continuous connectivity can include establishing, with a gateway, wireless communications, the gateway communicating via a connection with a fiber network. The connection with the fiber network can be monitored to determine if the connection with the fiber network has been lost by the ...