US Patent Issued to CenturyLink Intellectual Property on Nov. 3 for "Systems and methods for managing paired connections" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,122, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC (Denver).

"Systems and methods for managing paired connections" was invented by John R.B. Woodworth (Amissville, Va.) and Dean Ballew (Sterling, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for managing paired connections. A conductor system may receive a request to connect a first managed device to a second managed device using a first protocol; determine that the first managed device is currently connected to a third managed device via a current connection using the first protocol; determine a first portable media access control (MAC)...