ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,823, issued on March 24, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).
"Methods and systems for device detection" was invented by Jiongkuan Hou (Philadelphia), Ping Yi (Philadelphia) and Thomas McClung (Philadelphia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatuses, and systems are described for detecting the presence, location and movement of devices and associated users between networks. A device may determine and maintain data indicative of one or more devices in communication with a gateway device associated with a network in order to determine whether the device has been moved. The device may compare the da...