US Patent Issued to RAKUTEN MOBILE on Oct. 7 for "Managing MAC address randomization to provide integrity of network policies and services across networks" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,988, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to RAKUTEN MOBILE INC. (Tokyo).

"Managing MAC address randomization to provide integrity of network policies and services across networks" was invented by Saurabh Verma (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Media Access Control (MAC) address randomization is managed at the network level. An association request having a MAC address of a user equipment (UE) and a Globally Unique Wi-Fi Device Temporary Identifier (GUWDTI) parameter is received. A MAC policy to apply to the UE based the MAC address in the association request is determined based on the MAC address in the association request or based on t...