ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,596, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS OPERATING LLC (St. Louis).
"Excluding firmware upgrade traffic from customer provisioned bandwidth" was invented by Leonard Rosenbeck (Parker, Colo.), Ajay Sriram (Lone Tree, Colo.), Joshua Nelson (Aurora, Colo.) and Dustin Phillips (Denver).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments comprise systems, methods, architectures, mechanisms and apparatus for configuring CPE provisioning to provide a dynamic service flow so as to temporarily enable augmented bandwidth capabilities and Quality of Service (QoS) sufficient to support firmware updates and the like to the CPE...