US Patent Issued to Charter Communications Operating on Nov. 3 for "Priority internet access via networks during emergency situations" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,787,051, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Charter Communications Operating LLC (St. Louis).

"Priority internet access via 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 network AAA server of a network, a request for a priority UE to access an external data network via the network, accesses a Declared Emergency Location Registry (DELR) database to determine whether a current emergency situation has been declared for the network,...