US Patent Issued to Charter Communications Operating on May 19 for "Anonymous network access in a network environment" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,689, issued on May 19, was assigned to Charter Communications Operating LLC (St. Louis).

"Anonymous network access in a network environment" was invented by Shane B. Newberg (Aurora, Colo.), Christopher J. Teague (Castle Pines, Colo.), Peter A. Ericksen (Castle Rock, Colo.) and Donald W. Sherker (Parker, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A same wireless access profile is installed on each of multiple mobile communication devices. The wireless access profile includes outer identity information and anonymous inner identity information for each service. The anonymous inner identity information includes a credential used by each of the...