U.S. Patent 8023425 was awarded to Headwater Partners I LLC on 2011-09-20 and describes a “Verifiable service billing for intermediate networking devices.” This patent has been cited 272 times by other U.S. patents which places it in the top 500 cited patents since 2010 according to our law firm research, and makes it of the most innovative digital communication patents in the field of electrical engineering. The abstract states:

Various embodiments are disclosed for a services policy communication system and method. In some embodiments, an intermediate networking device provides a service intermediary or intermediate connection between a network and one or more communications devices; implements a service policy set for assisting control of the intermediate networking device use of a service on the network, in which the service policy set includes one or more service policies, each policy being associated with either the intermediate networking device or a communications device; and monitors use of the service based on the service policy set; and in which the implementation of the service policy set is verified. Link: U.S. Patent 8023425

This patent was originally filed on 2009-03-02 which gives it a processing time of 932 days, compared to an average processing time of 1323 in the field. Headwater Partners I LLC has 155 total patents. The first named inventor is Gregory G. Raleigh of , NY. The assistant examiner was Iqbal Zaidi.

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