U.S. Patent 10812975 was awarded to Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. on October 20, 2020 and is entitled “Methods and systems for blockchain smart contract in Hotspot 2.0 network for user authentication while roaming.” The first named inventor is Fazlur Rahman Sit Mohamed Ali of Bangalore, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

Methods and systems of user authentication for roaming access to a wireless communications network, using blockchain, is described. A wireless access point (WAP) can provide roaming connectivity to a Wi-Fi network for a mobile device, for example at a public hotspot. The disclosed WAP is blockchain-enabled, allowing connectivity to a blockchain network. Accordingly, when a WAP receives a connection request to the Wi-Fi network, the WAP can execute a smart contract in the blockchain to determine whether a user of the mobile device is authenticated for roaming access to the Wi-Fi network. In some cases, the smart contract verifies that service providers of the mobile device and the Wi-Fi network have a roaming agreement. Also, the smart contact can verify that the user is authenticated by the service provider of the mobile device. In some cases, the WAP device functions in accordance with a Hotspot 2.0 (HS2) networking standard. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on September 18, 2019  as U.S. Patent Application 16/574601 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10812975. The primary examiner was Meless N Zewdu.

Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., who is the original assignee of this patent, has at least 37773 total granted patents in the United States as of the date of this article. This blockchain patent has been cited 1 times by other U.S. patents according to our law firm research, and can be considered an innovative patent in the field of cryptocurrency and blockchain.

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