ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,634, issued on July 8.

"System and method for providing a network traffic portal" was invented by Kenneth Faiczak (Waterloo, Canada), Kamakshi Sridhar (Plano, Texas), Sheryl Tarnaske (Waterloo, Canada) and Samuel Cameron Cullen (Windham, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for providing a network portal including: collecting network data for at least one network provider; analyzing the network data; determining a user role of a user accessing the network portal to review the network data; and providing a visualization of the analyzed network data based on the user role of the user accessing the portal. A system for providing ...