ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. RE50,305, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Seamless Wi-Fi subscription remediation" was invented by Basavaraj Patil (Coppell, Texas) and Gabor Bajko (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The exemplary embodiments include a method to perform, based on at least one of hypertext transport protocol and non-hypertext transport protocol traffic tests failing, sending an hypertext transport protocol message to a subscription remediation server URI that carries a package1 message, receiving an hypertext transport protocol response from the subscription mediation server with a package2 message, ...