iBAHN Awarded Patent for Networking Software
iBAHN, a digital entertainment and Internet solutions for the hospitality and meeting industries, announces that the United States Patent Office has awarded the company a patent for its development of proprietary software tools that detect multiple users of a network access node. The technology has been in use by iBAHN and its hotel partners for approximately four years, and now has the protection of a patent.
The patent protects the design and development of technology that detects situations in which a person or persons pay for one connection to a network that is supporting a meeting or conference, but then use a device to allow others, undetected, to share the Internet connection. This can cause hotels to lose conference services revenue based on a per-user plan. Because iBAHN built and owns its secure end-to-end managed network, it is able to have immediate visibility into such activities, thereby providing for the institution of rapid corrective actions.
Hotels often experience bandwidth usage peaks that jeopardize the guest user experience. The solution is to increase bandwidth to the property but this means additional monthly expense. To the extent that bandwidth theft plays a part in usage peaks, the newly patented process would help hotels recover revenue that could more than pay for the monthly cost of increased bandwidth.
The patent protects the design and development of technology that detects situations in which a person or persons pay for one connection to a network that is supporting a meeting or conference, but then use a device to allow others, undetected, to share the Internet connection. This can cause hotels to lose conference services revenue based on a per-user plan. Because iBAHN built and owns its secure end-to-end managed network, it is able to have immediate visibility into such activities, thereby providing for the institution of rapid corrective actions.
Hotels often experience bandwidth usage peaks that jeopardize the guest user experience. The solution is to increase bandwidth to the property but this means additional monthly expense. To the extent that bandwidth theft plays a part in usage peaks, the newly patented process would help hotels recover revenue that could more than pay for the monthly cost of increased bandwidth.