US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Feb. 3 for "Control of communication handovers based on criticality of running software programs" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,097, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Control of communication handovers based on criticality of running software programs" was invented by Daniele Morgantini (Rome), Chiara Conti (Rome), Michela Melfa (Rome) and Maria Elena Taglieri (Bracciano, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Controlling communication handovers of a client computing device among a plurality of wireless networks providing access to a service network includes monitoring, by the client computing device, corresponding program usage information relating to the access to the service network of one or more softwar...