US Patent Issued to Calix on Jan. 13 for "Mitigating wastage associated with lapsed subscriber accounts on community-wide managed Wi-Fi networks" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,631, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Calix Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Mitigating wastage associated with lapsed subscriber accounts on community-wide managed Wi-Fi networks" was invented by Martin L. Casey (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Facilitating removal of lapsed profiles for a client attempting to access a Wi-Fi network by repeatedly sending requests to a server, the request includes a network address and profile of the client. For a lapsed profile, the server sends a message to a user regarding the lapse, where the message includes a list of all network addresses for client devices used to download the lapsed profile,...