Intellectual Property India Publishes Patent Application for Handling Address Collisions Within An Extended Service Set

MUMBAI, India, July 13 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202617071900 A) filed by Cisco Technology, Inc. on June 10, 2026, for Handling Address Collisions Within An Extended Service Set.

Inventors include Ficara, Domenico; Contreras Albesa, Javier I.; Henry, Jerome Number; and Orr, Stephen M..

The application for the patent was published on July 10, 2026, under issue no. 28/2026.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides techniques for handling MAC address collision within an ESS comprising at least one wireless station and at least one access point (AR). A wireless station selects a first Identifiable Random Media Access Control (MAC) (IRM) address, and sends the IRM address to the AR during execution of...