US Patent Issued to AT&T Mobility II on May 10 for "Network-Initiated Method and System for Establishing Data Communication Using Ip with a Wireless Terminal" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 17 -- United States Patent no. 7,940,730, issued on May 10, was assigned to AT&T Mobility II LLC (Atlanta).

"Network-Initiated Method and System for Establishing Data Communication Using Ip with a Wireless Terminal" was invented by Roger Newall Mahler (Marietta, Ga.) and Mark J. Enzmann (Blairsville, Ga.).

According to the abstract released by the U.

S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus are provided for establishing data communication between a wireless network and a wireless terminal by means of a packet data protocol connection, using internet protocol. When a determination is made that the wireless terminal is active but does not have an internet protocol address, a page is initiated from the wireless network to the wireless terminal over a control channel requesting that the wireless terminal obtain a temporary internet protocol address. A temporary internet protocol address is then assigned to the terminal in response to a request from the terminal initiated in response to the page so that data communication can be established with the terminal based on the temporary address."

The patent was filed on Nov. 4, 2004, under Application No. 10/980,306.

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