US Patent Issued to InterDigital Patent Holdings on April 1 for "Methods for specifying the type of MAC address with dynamic assignment mechanisms" (British, Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,267,295, issued on April 1, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilimington, Germany).

"Methods for specifying the type of MAC address with dynamic assignment mechanisms" was invented by Carlos Jesus Bernardos (Madrid) and Alain Mourad (Staines-Upon-Thames, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by a WTRU may comprise receiving context information from infrastructure equipment and selecting a SLAP quadrant for MAC address allocation. The selecting may be based on the context information received from the infrastructure equipment, which may be a bootstrapping server for the WTRU. The method may furt...