US Patent Issued to Canon on Dec. 2 for "Buffer status report signaling both buffered uplink traffic and buffered direct link traffic" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,144, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Buffer status report signaling both buffered uplink traffic and buffered direct link traffic" was invented by Romain Guignard (Rennes, France), Patrice Nezou (Liffre, France), Pascal Viger (Janze, France) and Stephane Baron (Le Rheu, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An 802.11ax access point, AP, manage a granted transmission opportunity to schedule multi user uplink and downlink transmissions with non-AP stations. Resource units may also be allocated to non-AP stations for direct link, DiL, transmissions. To efficiently arbitrate between scheduling new MU UL transmission...