US Patent Issued to AT&T Intellectual Property I on Nov. 4 for "Temporary identifiers for network and service access and for transaction recordation" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,961, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Temporary identifiers for network and service access and for transaction recordation" was invented by James Pratt (Round Rock, Texas), Yupeng Jia (Austin, Texas) and Eric Zavesky (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing system including at least one processor may obtain at least a first identifier associated with an endpoint device of a user at a location, determine, based on the at least the first identifier, that the user is an authorized participant of at least one service at the location, and provide an identity token to the endpoi...