ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,865, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Charter Communications Operating LLC (St. Louis).

"Automatic re-provisioning of dynamically provisioned differentiated features in a customer premises equipment (CPE)" was invented by Ajay G. Sriram (Lone Tree, Colo.), Jay T. Liew (Parker, Colo.), Louis J. Hendrich (Highlands Ranch, Colo.) and Stephen Gionfriddo (Castle Rock, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is determined that a customer premises equipment (CPE) that provides data access to a local area network has been dynamically provisioned with a differentiated feature that is different from default features identified in a boot config...