US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on Sept. 16 for "Systems and methods for on-network device identification" (New Jersey, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,531, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Systems and methods for on-network device identification" was invented by John Riviello (Voorhees, N.J.), Christopher Lorenzo (Philadelphia) and Max Knee (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described for on-network device identification. A user device may make an application programming interface (API) call to an address associated with a network device. The API call may comprise an indication of an address associated with the user device. Based on the API call, the network device may send an indication of the ...