US Patent Issued to Charter Communications Operating on Nov. 11 for "Authentication and data flow control configuration" (Colorado, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,922, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Charter Communications Operating LLC (St. Louis).

"Authentication and data flow control configuration" was invented by Ahmed Bencheikh (Lorton, Va.), Christopher J. Teague (Highlands Ranch, Colo.) and Venkata R. Divvi (Centennial, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless access point receives a request from a communication device for wireless access to a remote network. An authentication resource authenticates the communication device to use a wireless network provided by the wireless access point. Prior to providing notification to the communication device that it has been authenticated...