US Patent Issued to FRONTIER COMMUNICATIONS HOLDINGS on Feb. 10 for "Systems and methods for external ethernet qualification" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,876, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to FRONTIER COMMUNICATIONS HOLDINGS LLC (Dallas).

"Systems and methods for external ethernet qualification" was invented by Ryan C. Bennett (Arlington, Wash.) and Jeremy S. Papke (Monroe, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for qualifying external network facilities for a service location of a passive optical network (PON) of a PON service provider are presented. An exemplary method may include obtaining an indication of a service location of the PON and an indication of a set of required optical services at the service location; determining a group of candidate external netwo...