US Patent Issued to InterDigital Patent Holdings on Aug. 26 for "Accessing local networks in a communications network" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,979, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Accessing local networks in a communications network" was invented by Ghyslain Pelletier (Montreal) and Diana Pani (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may send, to a cellular network, a registration message that includes a request for local services including a network related name. The WTRU may receive, from a cellular network based on the registration message and location information of the WTRU, a higher layer signal with information including availability of a local service in a local area of...