US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on June 16 for "Providing authentication in a network" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,161, issued on June 16, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Providing authentication in a network" was invented by Soumya Munshi (Campbell, Calif.), Narendra Varma Dandu (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Raja Shah (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods are described for use of encryption methods for multiple network groups with different passkeys. A gateway may be configured so that the gateway may manage an authentication process of particular or pre-identified devices wireless devices differently from other devices. The gateway may determine if the device is a pre-identified device and if the p...