US Patent Issued to Charter Communications Operating on Aug. 26 for "Hierarchical network with lower-level switched traffic" (Colorado Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,402,028, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Charter Communications Operating LLC (St. Louis).

"Hierarchical network with lower-level switched traffic" was invented by Saran Khalid (Denver).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a hierarchical communication network having a network controller at a highest network level and network devices at one or more lower network levels, where each network device at a lowest network level supports communications with one or more end nodes, the network controller supports an initial phase of a communication session between first and second end nodes, where communication signals transmitted from the first end...