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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 02, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 03, 2015
Applicant:
Comcast Cable Holdings, Llc, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Inventor:
Jason D. Livingood, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Assignee:
Comcast Cable Holdings, LLC, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 7/00 (2006.01); H04L 12/24 (2006.01); H04M 3/42 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 41/12 (2013.01); H04M 7/006 (2013.01); H04M 3/42 (2013.01); H04M 2242/04 (2013.01);
Abstract
Methods and systems are described for determining a physical address for a device connected to a network via an access point. Associations between one or more physical addresses and access points may be stored in a profile associated with the device. If the device is connected to a particular access point, the profile and associations may be used to determine a current physical address for the device.