US Patent Issued to Calix on June 30 for "Appending network names to distinguish service provider networks" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,984, issued on June 30, was assigned to Calix Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Appending network names to distinguish service provider networks" was invented by Xiaolei Zhang (Jiangsu, China), Hylan Chen (Nanjing City, China), Daniel J. Sills (Moss Beach, Calif.) and Martin Casey (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network system includes a memory, and processing circuitry in communication with the memory. The processing circuitry is configured to identify, for each service provider network of a set of service provider networks, a network name associated with the service provider network, wherein two or more service provider networks o...