US Patent Issued to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance on Oct. 20 for "Systems and methods for automatic internet protocol address management" (Wyoming Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,667, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for automatic internet protocol address management" was invented by Grant McKim (Afton, Wyo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for automatic IP address range allocation is provided. The system and method include a) storing an availability map of IP addresses including a pointer to a next available IP address range of a first size, b) receiving, from a requestor computer device, a request for an IP address range of the first size, c) selecting the next available IP address range of the first siz...