ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,450, issued on March 24, was assigned to Epic Lane Networks LP (Austin, Texas).
"Device abstraction proxy" was invented by Marc Goldburg (Redwood City, Calif.) and Philip Bednarz (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are systems and methods for implementing and operating a Device Abstraction Proxy (DAP). In one embodiment, the DAP includes a communications interface to connect the DAP to one or more access aggregation devices, each having a plurality of physical ports to provide Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) communication services to a plurality of remote DSL terminals via the plurality of physical ports. The D...