US Patent Issued to AT&T Intellectual Property I on July 15 for "Systems and methods to provide account, billing and QoS SLA for OTT communication applications" (Texas, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,177, issued on July 15, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Systems and methods to provide account, billing and QoS SLA for OTT communication applications" was invented by Chaoxin Qiu (Austin, Texas) and Min Lu (Holmdel, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, executing an OTT application; and providing an API that enables the OTT application to connect with a native SIP stack of the device, where the OTT application negotiates with a network server for one or more QoS parameters for a communication service provided via the OTT application. Other embodime...