ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,641, issued on May 27, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).
"Systems and methods for providing prioritization for data transport services" was invented by Jayshree A. Bharatia (Plano, Texas), Rakesh Chandwani (Morganville, N.J.) and Toby Varughese John (Murphy, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network device may receive a subscription request to subscribe to a multimedia priority service (MPS) for a user device, and may generate an MPS profile for the user device based on the subscription request. The network device may store the MPS profile in a data structure, and may receive, from the user...