US Patent Issued to Hughes Network Systems on April 21 for "Out of band demand assigned multiple access" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,765, issued on April 21, was assigned to Hughes Network Systems LLC (Germantown, Md.).

"Out of band demand assigned multiple access" was invented by Mustafa Rangwala (Germantown, Md.) and Raghunandan Janardhan (Germantown, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for granting demand access to a data network from an Out of band (OOB) network, the method including: locking to an OOB inroute illuminating an OOB coverage area of the OOB network; transmitting an OOB request including a Demand Assigned Multiple Access (DAMA) request for the data network to an OOB Network Management System (NMS) via the OOB inroute; sending, ...