US Patent Issued to AT&T Intellectual Property I on Oct. 21 for "Centralized authentication for granting access to online services" (Georgia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,246, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Centralized authentication for granting access to online services" was invented by Dale W. Malik (Marietta, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to implement centralized authentication for granting access to services are disclosed. Example apparatus disclosed herein to perform device authentication at a first service are to access a profile based on an identification code included in an authentication request from a second service, the profile corresponding to a device associated with the identific...