US Patent Issued to Charter Communications Operating on Feb. 10 for "LAN-connected device status determination by a bridged gateway" (Colorado Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,411, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Charter Communications Operating LLC (St. Louis).

"LAN-connected device status determination by a bridged gateway" was invented by Timothy Bleidorn (Colorado Springs, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bridged gateway (BG) coupled to a local area network (LAN) receives a layer 2 frame from a device coupled to the LAN. The BG determines that the layer 2 frame is addressed to a network gateway router that provides layer 3 routing services for the LAN. The BG forwards, to the network gateway router via a layer 2 tunnel, the layer 2 frame. The BG starts a timer that corresponds to the device. T...