ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,909, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).
"Gateway management" was invented by Leslie Alvarado (Philadelphia), Teddy El-Rashidy (Philadelphia), Alberto Garcia-Ortiz (Saint Davids, Pa.) and Colleen Szymanik (Philadelphia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for associating a gateway device as a backup for another gateway device based on the communication characteristics of the gateways. The communication characteristics of the gateways may indicate that the gateways available are suitable backups of each other in the event that one of the gateways...