US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Dec. 16 for "Differentiated service in a federation-based access network" (American, Canadian, British, Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,943, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Differentiated service in a federation-based access network" was invented by Jerome Henry (Pittsboro, N.C.), Robert E. Barton (Richmond, Canada), Carlos M. Pignataro (Cary, N.C.), Nagendra Kumar Nainar (Morrisville, N.C.), Malcolm M. Smith (Richardson, Texas), Mark Grayson (Maidenhead, Great Britain) and Bart A. Brinckman (Nevele, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Differentiated service in a federation-based access network is provided by receiving a set of credentials from a User Equipment (UE) for a wireless network offering a plurality of servic...