US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on April 14 for "Delegated peer-to-peer scheduling on allocated channels" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,336, issued on April 14, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Delegated peer-to-peer scheduling on allocated channels" was invented by Brian D. Hart (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Malcolm M. Smith (Richardson, Texas), Pooya Monajemi (San Jose, Calif.), Jerome Henry (Pittsboro, N.C.) and Robert E. Barton (Richmond, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for delegated peer-to-peer scheduling are provided. A first peer-to-peer device determines one or more wireless channels allocated for peer-to-peer communication, and receives a request indicating a set of transmission characteristics from a second peer-to-peer d...