US Patent Issued to Headwater Research on April 14 for "Device-assisted services for protecting network capacity" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,845, issued on April 14, was assigned to Headwater Research LLC (Tyler, Texas).

"Device-assisted services for protecting network capacity" was invented by Gregory G. Raleigh (Woodside, Calif.), James Lavine (Corte Madera, Calif.) and Alireza Raissinia (Monte Sereno, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Device Assisted Services (DAS) for protecting network capacity is provided. In some embodiments, DAS for protecting network capacity includes monitoring a network service usage activity of the communications device in network communication; classifying the network service usage activity for differential network access control for pro...