ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,315, issued on May 20, was assigned to Tangoe US Inc. (Shelton, Conn.).
"Automated communications pool plan management robot" was invented by Joan Schrenkel (Westfield, Ind.), Robert King (Westfield, Ind.) and Eric Sendelbach (Zionsville, Ind.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and computer implemented method which determines usage and available rate plans, at least some of which are pool eligible. Based on expected usage for a billing cycle, the system and method modifies rate plans for one or more devices to migrate devices in and out of the pool(s) and/or modify plans and data available to the pool in order to reduce cost of ...