US Patent Issued to Cox Communications on Nov. 18 for "Mobile virtual network operator network access control" (Virginia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,343, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Cox Communications Inc..

"Mobile virtual network operator network access control" was invented by Tushar Sharma (Chantilly, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An MVNO utilizes MNVO-controlled equipment to control generation of public-private key pairs, provisioning of user devices using a public-private key pair, and authenticating user devices requesting access to an MVNO network using the public-private key pair. An MNVO-controlled provisioning server can use a key of a public-private key pair to encrypt a SIM-based identity that is associated with a user device. When the user device requests...