ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,397, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to VIASAT INC. (Carlsbad, Calif.).
"Multicast handover for mobile communications" was invented by Joshua G. Slater (Rancho Mission Viejo, Calif.), Daniel M. Newman (Littleton, Mass.) and Sapna P. Mehta (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments provide efficient multicast handover for content delivery to client devices in multi-carrier communications systems. For example, client devices in a transport craft can consume a media channel offering via a first carrier during transport through the communications system. Embodiments can establish respective multicast groups for the media channel...