US Patent Issued to Charter Communications Operating on July 1 for "Multi-option authentication portal implementation in a network environment" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,502, issued on July 1, was assigned to Charter Communications Operating LLC (St. Louis).

"Multi-option authentication portal implementation in a network environment" was invented by Shane B. Newberg (Aurora, Colo.), Christopher J. Teague (Castle Pines, Colo.), Venkata R. Divvi (Centennial, Colo.), Cheryl A. Warne (Lone Tree, Colo.) and Loay O. Kreishan (Aurora, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one configuration, a wireless access service provider selects and assigns a particular authentication option amongst multiple different authentication options to an entity such as a wireless access point or a sub-network support...