US Patent Issued to CANON on Nov. 3 for "Method for changing the value of one or more privacy parameters of stations within a basic service set" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,698, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Method for changing the value of one or more privacy parameters of stations within a basic service set" was invented by Julien Sevin (Saint Aubin du Cormier, France), Stephane Baron (Le Rheu, France) and Patrice Nezou (Liffre, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to method for changing the value of one or more privacy parameters, such as a MAC address, of target stations within a BSS, at both an AP station and a non-AP station associated with the AP station. The two stations share a pseudo-random function to generate the new values of the privac...