US Patent Issued to BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS on May 27 for "Method of operating a wireless telecommunications network" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,173, issued on May 27, was assigned to BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS PLC (London).

"Method of operating a wireless telecommunications network" was invented by Ian Neild (London) and Andrew Reeves (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method (400) of operating a wireless telecommunications network (100), said network comprising a plurality of User Equipment (110), UEs, a Wireless Access Point (120), WAP, and a Wireless Local Area Network (140), WLAN, provided by means of the WAP, the method comprising the steps of: associating, against each of the plurality of UEs, an item of information and a unique character slot for the item of inf...