US Patent Issued to InterDigital Patent Holdings on Dec. 16 for "End-to-end M2M service layer sessions" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,956, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"End-to-end M2M service layer sessions" was invented by Dale N. Seed (Allentown, Pa.), Lijun Dong (San Diego), Guang Lu (Ontario, Canada) and Michael F. Starsinic (Newtown, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Mechanisms support machine-to-machine service layer sessions that can span multiple service layer hops where a machine-to-machine service layer hop is a direct machine-to-machine service layer communication session between two machine-to-machine service layer instances or between a machine-to-machine service layer instance and a machine-...