ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,864, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Auto-provisioning for customer premises equipment (CPE) downstream of a cellular modem" was invented by David J. Mindel (Lansdale, Pa.) and Dan Frey (Front Royal, Va.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, a method includes determining network information for one or more network slices of a wireless network, the network information for the one or more network slices being available at a modem associated with a network appliance and interfacing with the wireless network, converting the network information into a standards-based format, determining ...