US Patent Issued to Charter Communications Operating on May 5 for "Priority internet access via WIFI networks during emergency situations" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,646, issued on May 5, was assigned to Charter Communications Operating LLC (St. Louis).

"Priority internet access via WIFI networks during emergency situations" was invented by Shane Newberg (Aurora, Colo.), Donald Sherker (Parker, Colo.) and Peter Andrew Ericksen (Castle Rock, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In certain embodiments, a clearinghouse AAA server receives, from a WiFi network AAA server of a WiFi network, a request for a priority UE to access an external data network via the WiFi network, accesses a Declared Emergency Location Registry (DELR) database to determine whether a current emergency situation has been declare...