US Patent Issued to SAGEMCOM BROADBAND on Sept. 8 for "Method for determining whether an IP address is attributed to a terminal in a communication network" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,477, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to SAGEMCOM BROADBAND SAS (Bois-Colombes, France).

"Method for determining whether an IP address is attributed to a terminal in a communication network" was invented by Laurent Alarcon (Rueil Malmaison, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining whether an IP address is attributed in a communication network including at least one gateway, said method implemented by the gateway and includes: configuring a filter to receive first address test messages, each first filtered address test message targeting an IP address and requesting any terminal to which the target IP address is at...