US Patent Issued to Charter Communications Operating on Sept. 15 for "Channel monitoring and shared use of a wireless channel" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,739,865, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Charter Communications Operating LLC (St. Louis).

"Channel monitoring and shared use of a wireless channel" was invented by Amitav Mukherjee (Elk Grove, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one configuration, a wireless network includes first wireless stations and second wireless stations. The first wireless stations and second wireless stations support different wireless communication protocols and compete to use a wireless channel. Via monitoring of a control channel generated by a management resource associated with at least the first wireless stations, a given wireless stati...