US Patent Issued to AT&T Intellectual Property I, AT&T Mobility II on Nov. 4 for "Method and apparatus for detecting nuisance traffic events based on network" (Alaska, New Jersey, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,071, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta) and AT&T Mobility II LLC (Atlanta).

"Method and apparatus for detecting nuisance traffic events based on network" was invented by Sheldon Kent Meredith (Roswell, Ga.), Zachary Cleigh Meredith (Eagle River, Alaska) and Howard L. Lang (Wayside, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing system may determine a nuisance traffic event. The processing system may receive from a first entity a request to determine a status of the wireless user endpoint device associated with a wireless phone number, wherein the status comprises a determination as to a valid...