US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on Oct. 21 for "Method and apparatus for SSID and wireless communication management" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,774, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Method and apparatus for SSID and wireless communication management" was invented by Daniel Zerumsky (Elkins Park, Pa.), Brian Flicker (Springfield, Pa.) and Ruifeng Zhang (Havertown, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are described for managing SSIDs in a wireless network. An AP providing wireless communications may determine that there is high or low network traffic associated with one of its SSIDs. For example, a high or low number of computing devices may be probing the AP on a particular SSID. The AP may enable or disabl...