ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,171, issued on May 27, was assigned to KT Corp. (Seongnam-si, South Korea).
"Access control method and device" was invented by Sung-pyo Hong (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Woo-jin Choi (Seongnam-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An access control technology in a next generation mobile communication network is disclosed. More specifically, disclosed is a technology for controlling an access control operation of a terminal through an integrated category by various methods and layers. One embodiment provides a method by which a terminal performs integrated access control, comprising the steps of: receiving, from a base stat...