US Patent Issued to Charter Communications Operating on Feb. 4 for "Efficient detection of DHCPV4 service unavailability in a network gateway router" (Colorado Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,218,792, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Charter Communications Operating LLC (St. Louis).

"Efficient detection of DHCPV4 service unavailability in a network gateway router" was invented by Timothy Bleidorn (Colorado Springs, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bridged gateway coupled to a local area network (LAN) receives a layer 2 frame from a device coupled to the LAN. The bridged gateway forwards, to a network gateway router that provides layer 3 routing services for the LAN, the layer 2 frame via a layer 2 tunnel. The bridged gateway determines that the layer 2 frame comprises a dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) discove...