US Patent Issued to TIME WARNER CABLE ENTERPRISES on March 18 for "Apparatus and methods for dynamic open-access networks" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,291, issued on March 18, was assigned to TIME WARNER CABLE ENTERPRISES LLC (St. Louis).

"Apparatus and methods for dynamic open-access networks" was invented by Don Gunasekara (Reston, Va.) and Kiran Yeddala (Ashburn, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods for providing information via an open-access network such as a wireless local area network (WLAN). In one embodiment, the information provided is contextually relevant to one or locations, more users or devices receiving the information. In one implementation, the information is provisioned by a network entity (for example, from a service provider network operato...