ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,943, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to T-Mobile Innovations LLC.

"Using a proxy in front of a diameter routing agent" was invented by Tamas Eros (Everett, Wash.) and Ying Sheng Liang (Auburn, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system comprises a network access server, a back-end network node, and a diameter routing agent (DRA). The network access server is configured to send, to the back-end network node, attribute-value pairs (AVP) of the network access server; receive, from a communication device, an authentication request; send, to the back-end network node, a Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) request responsive to receivin...