US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on Aug. 12 for "Methods and systems for selection of optimal access points" (Pennsylvania, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,317, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Methods and systems for selection of optimal access points" was invented by Ross Gilson (Philadelphia) and Alex Cook (Lawrenceville, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and devices are described for establishing communication with an access point. A wireless device may determine to switch to another access point radio based on a variety of factors. The wireless device may use a dynamic threshold to determine whether to switch to another access point radio. The dynamic threshold may be based on a current state of the wireless dev...