US Patent Issued to InterDigital Patent Holdings on Oct. 14 for "Methods and devices for handling virtual domains" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,936, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Methods and devices for handling virtual domains" was invented by Xavier De Foy (Kirkland, Canada), Scott Hergenhan (Collegeville, Pa.), Michel Roy (Candiac, Canada), Debashish Purkayastha (Collegeville, Pa.) and Robert Gazda (Spring City, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless transmit/receive unit, WTRU, connects to a first AP, receives domain identifiers, requests corresponding descriptors and receives a list of descriptors. An application on the WTRU requests a list of domains and attributes corresponding to service names or serv...