ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,566, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Epic Lane Networks LP (West Lake Hills, Texas).
"Broadband access management systems and methods" was invented by Kenneth J. Kerpez (Long Valley, N.J.), John M. Cioffi (Atherton, Calif.) and Marc Goldburg (Redwood City, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Device Abstraction Proxy (DAP) interface receives a request for operational data relating to broadband access line services provided to a plurality of broadband access terminals in a network by multiple providers. The DAP interface receives, in response to the request, operational data for multiple DSL lines coupled to the multiple broadba...