ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,923, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Providing estimated bandwidth ranges to network-attached entities" was invented by Sridhar Narahari (Milpitas, Calif.), Barry Elia (King George, Va.), Jae-Sun Chin (Garland, Texas) and Gregory Harp (Allen, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one example, the present disclosure describes a device, computer-readable medium, and method for providing estimated bandwidth ranges to network-attached entities such as applications, user endpoint devices, and customer premises equipment. For instance, in one example, a method performed by a processing syste...