ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,379, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).
"Small cell accessibility service" was invented by Amir Saghir (Frisco, Texas), Said Hanbaly (Prosper, Texas) and Nimalan Kanagasabai (Grapevine, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device may include a processor configured to determine that a user device is within a coverage area of a small cell connected to a base station associated with an application service; determine that the user device is not a member of the small cell; identify a network slice for the application service; determine whether a network services subscription for the...